{"id":17168,"date":"2017-03-22T00:40:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T04:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boironca.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/?p=1020\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T15:27:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T15:27:30","slug":"memo-ceo-glimpse-inside-boiron-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boiron.ca\/en\/all\/others\/memo-ceo\/memo-ceo-glimpse-inside-boiron-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorial: A Glimpse Inside Boiron Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had dinner with a friend recently at a well-known Montreal eatery. While this normally wouldn\u2019t be anything worth writing about, I couldn\u2019t help but notice a small, delicate bottle proudly displayed on each table in the restaurant. \u00a0Attached to it with a raw cord was a simple manuscript label that read: My Sister\u2019s Olive Oil, Kalamata, Greece.<\/p>\n<p>This note piqued my interest, to say the least. I joked about the bottle\u2019s name with our waiter and he assured me that it was no laughing matter. Not only was the oil produced in Kalamata, Greece, but it was indeed made by the restaurateur\u2019s sister. She and her family cultivated the olives and pressed them every season with the greatest care to extract their precious gold liquid, then shipped the oil to her brother in Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>I have always been curious about the background of the products I use, flipping the packages over to discover their origins. With luck, I find a short, personal tale explaining the company\u2019s rich history; their ingredients, their manufacturing process, their employees, and their values.<\/p>\n<p>I often wonder if the people buying our homeopathic medicines ask themselves the same types of questions:<br \/>\nWho is Boiron? How are their medicines made? Where do their ingredients come from?<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QPYW2qkAHIs?rel=0&amp;controls=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While a lot of this information can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boiron.ca\/about\/our-story\/\">on our website<\/a>, not much is said about the team that works day in and day out to ensure that Canadian families have access to Boiron\u2019s high-quality medicines. Wouldn\u2019t it be great if, much like the olive oil on my table, our consumers could get a glimpse into the backstory of Boiron Canada\u2019s tireless workforce?<\/p>\n<p>If only our consumers could meet Xavier Colin, our in-house Doctor of Pharmacy, who oversees that products being brought to Canadians are beyond reproach. And Guylaine Deschambault with more than 25 years of experience at Boiron Canada, who continues to look after our laboratory in Saint-Bruno, Quebec, as well as every customer-care concern possible. And of course, there\u2019s Youssef Shenouda, a newly minted (and very proud) Canadian who handles and ships each product leaving our headquarters with great care so that they eventually find their way into your homes.<\/p>\n<p>This is just a fraction of the deeply committed, passionate, and proud colleagues that I have the pleasure of working with each day as President CEO of Boiron Canada. While we might not be related by blood, our small team sure feels like family to me.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Dereser<br \/>\nPresident CEO Boiron Canada<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had dinner with a friend recently at a well-known Montreal eatery. 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