Oxford Frozen Foods

“We're the largest beekeeper in Nova Scotia by far, and one of the largest in Canada, because we couldn't get the bees, so we had to start our own apiary.”

“Family companies are great to work for, and we're going to pay you well, and you're going to feel very comfortable here, but there's no equity available, and too complicated with the finance structures if you start giving it away, and then if they want out, an…”

“Our advantage is that we are in three, three different microclimates.”

“When I started in the industry, the Wild Blue Ray industry was forty million pounds in total, and I hoped to do two of that. And today, the industry is over three hundred million, getting closer to four. And we do half of it.”

“We had a one-page agreement, which I still have, which gave us the exclusive right to make onion rings under the McCain label in Canada, and we've been doing that for over 50 years”

“Top quality doesn't necessarily cost, in fact, quite often, it's cheaper, because you have less product on the floor, and, Less shrinkage, and you're doing it all right, and the end product becomes better.”

“We bought About 3000 acres of carrot land in the Annapolis Valley at premium prices. Why would you pay premium? We need to secure the base. That's where we grow our carrots, and we were, you know, doubling the production of carrots, so we need the land base, i…”

“We just gradually bought them, but there's nothing to buy anymore. I think about this. We have both our cable and food business that were both quite rapid growth businesses from really small cottage industries to professional companies. We've played that game,…”

“We're the largest carrot, certainly carrot processor in Canada, maybe in North America.”

“Our ideal position would be to grow half them on our own farms and buy half from farmers.”

“We not only have to have our own farm sufficient, we need the farmers sufficient.”

“Our objective wasn't to make good onion rings. It was to make onion rings exactly the same as the competition, because then it's an easy sell. You don't have to have something unique, and that was not as easy as you would think, and we could make better tastin…”

“We have, like, jam manufacturers that one of the biggest in the world is Andros in France, and they'll only use European blueberries, which are a different species again, or our wild blueberries. And Europeans can't compete with us because they're still a cott…”

“We haven't shied away from using debt, although today our balance sheets are in great shape, but through the years we've always been, what I would say, almost fully levered,”

“Having built a factory and all, and geared it up to run two million pounds, and we ran I don't know, a 100,000. There just was no crop.”

“Oxford Frozen Foods John's Company's processes a hundred and forty million pounds a year.”

“40 years ago, Bragg started funding research at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College, and he never stopped. They study everything from pollination to fungal diseases to vegetation management and berry composition. But here's the kicker that'll surprise you. Th…”

“They've sold over 700 of these harvesters now, about a hundred to Oxford, and the rest to competitors and other growers. But here's what separates John Bragg from ordinary businessmen. He didn't patent this invention.”