In this episode, we chat with Tammy Sons, G2 owner and CEO of TN Nursery, the Altamont, Tenn., native plant nursery her father started in 1959. She talks about the 2012 move online that shifted the business from wholesale to retail and took it from a dozen or so wholesale orders a day to roughly a thousand retail orders a day, and how she’s preparing her son and daughter to lead when she retires in a few years.
We also feature part 2 of our conversation with Eric Corliss, G5 steward of Corliss Management Group, on how his family held on to its sense of identity after selling the sand, gravel and concrete business it ran for generations, and what it took to get everyone in the same room for regular family meetings.
In addition, in part 2 of our conversation with Ryan Reigle, G4 chairman of the board and CEO of cookware company Regal Holdings, explains how patient capital can turn into slow capital when a family stops watching the competition, and how a 2023 study of global manufacturing costs led Regal to commit an eight-figure investment to U.S. manufacturing.
Interested in being a guest or have a topic you’d like to hear us discuss? Contact host Zack Needles, editor-in-chief of Family Business Magazine, at: zneedles@familybusinessmagazine.com.
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