Happy Family needed a conglomerate partner to avoid being crushed by rivals
Shazi Visram · Happy Family Organics: Shazi Visram · Jan 20, 2020 · at 58:42
Shazi Visram discusses why she chose to sell 92% of Happy Family to Danone in 2013 after competitors were acquired by massive food companies.
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“We might have gotten crushed in everything we worked so hard to build around that initial mission of actually changing the way children are fed. All of that could have been jeopardized.”
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