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24 THE RURAL VOICE
In early 1997 they hired Jim
Brown of the consulting company
Strive who conducted a combined
training and brainstorming session
with the members of the group. It
was during this meeting, they looked
at the legal framework they would
need to bring off their dream. "At the
end of the meeting we all came to the
conclusion that it would be in the
best interests of the group to form a
company versus a co-op," Schmidt
recalls. "It gave us more flexibility to
put the profits back into the pockets
of the people who deserved the
profits."
At around the same time they
closed the deal to buy the
former Hoffmeyer lumber
yard, a building originally built in the
1960s. The building was structurally
a good sound building, location was
good and the price was right. The
structural renovations began in June
1997 as the building was gutted to
the shell.
Krach was retained as a consultant
to do the plant layout. The company
was set up with a seven -member
board of directors with different
directors being given responsibility
to oversee different aspects of the
development of the company.
"There's an awful lot of different
things that were happening at the
same time," Schmidt says. "You're
looking at developing the legal
framework of the company, the
building construction itself and going
through the red tape procedure."
The amount of red tape threatened
to get them down after a while. It
wasn't that any aspect to the process
was difficult, Schmidt says, it was
the sheer volume and the layering of
the red tape, with each level of
government needing different
information.
"Everyone we've dealt with,
especially the town of Seaforth, have
been really good and been very
understanding of what we've been
going through," he says. "I really
have to commend the Town of
Seaforth for the way they've helped
us and worked with us."
One of the different levels the
company had to work with was Dairy
Farmers of Ontario to get the milk
necessary to allow manufacturing.
They had to develop a contract to
allow the Jersey milk to be