Business Stories

Owner Mathieu Gallant grew up in a family dairy farm of generations in Mount Carmel. He started to build his business after he returned from France, where he earned a scholarship to study cheese making in 2009; from that, Fromagerie PEI was born in 2015. The company specializes in cheese curd manufacturing, and you can…

Maureen Hanley, a born entrepreneur, is one of the founders of Navigate Food Safety Solutions, located in Montague. Maureen joined the company in 2016. Having been an entrepreneur her whole life, she loves the day-to-day activities – showing up and working with good people to do good things, resulting in happy customers. Navigate Food Safety…

Jocelyn Thorwaldson is a baker who moved to PEI four years ago from Manitoba. After months of preparations, Jocelyn and her partner Jared Tobias opened The Willow Bakery and Cafe beside the Kensington train station on March 18, 2020, a date they had circled on their calendar for months. What they didn’t expect was it…