This article is part of our Beyond the Family Business series.
Hosted by Luke Hansen-MacDonald, a second-generation family business leader, “Beyond the Family Business” is one of the most thoughtful and engaging podcasts about family enterprise in Canada. Every two weeks on Canadian Family Offices, Luke goes beyond the headlines with other leaders in family businesses and family offices to explore lessons they have learned, their successes and their challenges.
In this episode, Luke sits down with Lee Bragg, a second-generation leader of the family business. With deep roots in Nova Scotia, Lee, who is executive vice-chair and former CEO of Eastlink, talks about his father’s lightbulb moment of seeing blueberries on the family land and how he turned that into an empire. Today, the Bragg Group of Companies owns the largest fruit farm in the world.
Today, Lee helps oversee an incredibly diverse business portfolio. From Eastlink, which provides communications services across the country (internet, TV, mobile, and data) to Oxford Frozen Foods and Inland Technologies (aviation focused), the Bragg family’s business interests are varied, but the successes are consistent.
In his conversation with Luke, Lee shares:
- The origins of the Bragg Group of Companies.
- Putting meritocracy over nepotism in order for the family business to survive.
- The benefits of reengineering a business, and what Lee learned from the experience.
- How people are the most challenging but also the most rewarding thing in business when they want to embrace the culture and grow.
Previous episodes of “Beyond the Family Business” on Canadian Family Offices feature K.C. Daya, Jeffrey McCain , Ian Wilson, Derrick Hunter , Pierre Somers and Ben Hertzman.
For the full transcript of Luke’s conversation with Lee Bragg, click here.
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