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Author Savoie, Donald J., 1947- author

Title Harrison McCain : single-minded purpose / Donald J. Savoie
Published Montreal [Québec] ; Ithaca [New York] : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 338 pages) : illustrations
Series Footprints series ; 17
Footprints (Cheltenham, England) ; 17.
Contents Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Illustrations; Introduction; 1 Roots Matter; 2 Planting the Seeds; 3 Getting a Job; 4 Launching a Business on a Wing, a Prayer, and a Helping Hand from Government; 5 Crazier Than Hell; 6 Florenceville Conquers Europe; 7 Fighting Down Under, in the United States, and on the Home Front; 8 Governance: Someone Else's Problem; 9 The Conflict; 10 Flying Solo; 11 Politics and Public Policy; 12 Family and Friends; 13 Could There Be Another Harrison McCain?; APPENDICES; A: Interviews; B: McCain Foods Chronology (1956-1993); C: McCain Foods Chronology (1994-2004)
NotesIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
Summary Annotation The only rival to Harrison McCain's entrepreneurial success was his deep attachment to his Maritime roots. From McCain's beginnings in Florenceville, New Brunswick, the early mentorship he received from K.C. Irving, to the global success of his corporate empire McCain Foods, Donald Savoie presents a compelling and candid biography of one of the most famous and down-to-earth figures in Canadian business history. Savoie, a longtime friend to McCain, describes a driven, charismatic, and energetic man who had a keen wit and a deep commitment to his business and hometown. Through unprecedented access to McCain's papers and interviews with family members, friends, and colleagues, Savoie details the decisions that McCain made alongside his brother and business partner, Wallace McCain, from the company's humble beginnings to its expansion in Europe, Australia, India, and China. McCain saw the potential of globalization before others did. Despite conflict between the brothers and the eventual fracture of their partnership, Savoie presents the McCains' dedication as so immersed in the development of their company that they had little time left for second-guessing. At a time when New Brunswick struggles to reinvent itself economically, Savoie points to former government policies and programs that helped the company thrive and holds up the example of Harrison McCain with the hope of seeing Canadian success stories like this in the future
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-315) and index
Subject McCain, H. Harrison, 1927-2004
McCain family.
SUBJECT McCain family fast
Subject McCain Foods Limited.
SUBJECT McCain Foods Limited fast
Subject Businessmen -- New Brunswick -- Biography
Executives -- New Brunswick -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
Businessmen
Executives
New Brunswick
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773590236
0773590234
9780773590243
0773590242