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February 11, 2013

New Directions: An Interview with Dean Tiessen

At first there were four brothers and now there are six: Mark, Chris & Bradley, Dean, Mike & Ryan, and Jason. They represent generations of Tiessens who have been in farming – an example of how a plant grows. The kind of ‘farming’ they do has lured universities from around the world into their sphere, […]

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January 14, 2013

Grower Flowers Dot Com

Sign in front of Grower Flowers greenhouse in winter

When Mark Thiessen got his first e-mail order for a dozen red roses he knew instinctively that the World Wide Web would be his ticket to success. This happened on Aug. 2nd, 1996 when he was sitting in the veranda of his grandfather Jacob Thiessen’s house, in front of a computer. Previous to this Mark […]

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December 12, 2012

An Interview With Abe Fehr

Aerial view of Uni-Fab under construction

Abram Fehr, known to his friends and associates simply as Abe, was born in Tillsonburg Ontario in 1963, and became a successful entrepreneur, no doubt to the delight of his hard working parents who immigrated to Canada from Paraguay. Abe’s father Isaac came to Canada in 1957 and his mother Helena arrived in1962. Abe’s entire […]

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