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Meek, Jim, 1950-
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Deveau, Louis.
Acadian Seaplants Limited (Firm)
Businesspeople -- Nova Scotia -- Biography.
Marine algae industry -- Nova Scotia.
Marine algae industry -- Maritime Provinces.
Nova Scotia -- Biography.
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Meek, Jim, 1950-
Deveau, Louis.
Acadian Seaplants Limited (Firm)
Businesspeople -- Nova Scotia -- Biography.
Marine algae industry -- Nova Scotia.
Marine algae industry -- Maritime Provinces.
Nova Scotia -- Biography.
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Cultivating
success
: the
life
of
Acadian
Seaplants
founder
Louis
Deveau
/ Jim Meek.
by
Meek, Jim, 1950-
Nimbus Publishing, c2021.
Call #:
338.76398 D489m
Subjects
Deveau
,
Louis
.
Acadian
Seaplants
Limited (Firm)
Businesspeople -- Nova Scotia -- Biography.
Marine algae industry -- Nova Scotia.
Marine algae industry -- Maritime Provinces.
Nova Scotia -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781771089593 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Life
of
Acadian
Seaplants
founder
Louis
Deveau
Description:
209 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"'
Cultivating
Success
' is the remarkable story of a remarkable man.
Louis
Deveau
was born in the
Acadian
village of Salmon River, Digby County, NS, in the early years of the Great Depression. He inherited his father's work ethic and his mother's entrepreneurial flair, soon pioneering the creation of the commercial crab industry -- now the second-largest fishery in Atlantic Canada. That work put him on the front lines of the industry he would transform over a lifetime: the seaweed business. At forty-nine,
Louis
incorporated
Acadian
Seaplants
Limited (ASL), and doggedly grew the company by capitalizing on research and development innovations. Today, ASL employs hundreds of people in more than a dozen nations, keeps a research staff of about fifty, and exports a wide range of products to over eighty nations worldwide. This comprehensive biography tells the story of a visionary whose determination to build a successful business in Nova Scotia transformed ASL into a world-leading, juggernaut."--Jacket.
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