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contents
patient capitalists
(Clockwise from top left)
Farmer Loren Taves; Peter
Cech of Love Food Hate
Waste; Earls CEO Stan
Fuller; and investor
Joel Solomon
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Waste Not
Want Not
Tens of billions of dollars worth of food
is wasted each year. a look at what
five B.C. businesses are trying to do to
stem the losses by Marcie Good
Southern
Comfort
When Stan Fuller took the reins of the
family business, Earls was in cruise
control–a success in the casual fine
dining market it created but with no
room to grow. Enter Fuller's bold new
U.S. strategy by Jamie Maw
The
Conscientious
Capitalist
From politics to business, Joel
Solomon is used to making a winning
bet. The inside story of how Solomon
became one of Canada's top socially
minded investors by Richard Littlemore