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Building a Global Seaweed Empire from Halifax, Nova Scotia
In what David Campbell calls one of his favourite conversations this year, he and Don Mills speak with Jean-Paul Deveau, the president and CEO of Acadian Seaplants Limited.
Acadian Seaplants is a Halifax-based seaweed company with a reach and scope that's far greater than most poeple realize. The company doesn't just produce seaweed, it turns it into highly valuable research products that it ships to 80 different companies.
JP tells Don and David about his father, Louis Deveau, who might have been content shipping dried seaweed and earning a good living. Instead, he built an innovation-based…
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