![]() “It’s giving people opportunities to get in on short-term deals,” she said. Given that businesses have been gravitating to the top-tier upscale malls, it is creating chances for new retailers in smaller malls. Sarah says the company is looking to expand including possibly in suburban Toronto and Vancouver. Squish has six locations in Canada including inside Hudson’s Bay flagship store on Queen St. “If you make a success, ‘Well, you’re the boss’s kid.’ If you fail, then how could you be so stupid with all that? ![]() “A family business-you’re damned if you, you’re damned if you don’t,” he said. Herschel concedes it’s challenging to join a family business – and Sarah is the only one of his children to enter the retail world. It’s like seeing someone else raise your kids.” “It’s very frustrating as entrepreneurs, as people who know the business, to see someone else do it. “It’s a chance to watch a company from a distance at a board level. “It’s taking your hands off the steering wheel,” she said, noting a new management team is in place at David’s Tea. “I got in for the right reasons … I got into the tea business because I love tea.”Įven though she stepped away from David’s Tea to launch Squish Candy in 2014, she remains on the board. “It wasn’t planned,” Sarah says of her decision to join her dad in David’s Tea, which Herschel co-founded with his cousin David. She studied sciences, went to work at a United Nations research centre in Beijing focused on water pollution, and was looking toward a life in academia, when her love of Pu’er tea pulled her back to Canada in 2010. ![]() “I felt that I would never been taken seriously… that I was getting what I was getting because I was in my family’s business.” Sarah openly admits she never wanted to go into the family business. Some say you should never go into business with your family.īut for Herschel Segal, who started the Le Chateau clothing chain and David’s Tea, and his daughter Sarah Segal, who founded Squish Candy, a gourmet gummies company, family and business are a good combination.Īt a conference last week ) organized by Futurpreneur Canada, a non-profit organization that helps young people start their own businesses, father and daughter shared experiences and offered advice. ![]()
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