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The Food Island Partnership is an industry led non-for-profit organization established in 2014 with a vision to establish Prince Edward Island as an international recognized place of origin for premium food products and a destination for culinary excellence.The organization's main efforts focus on supporting the establishment and growth of food processors,exporters,and food tourism businesses and leveraging and building the reputation to the province's "Canada Food Island" brand.

Reporting to the Board of Directors, Bryan oversaw 8 senior managers in the Agriculture, Food, Retail, Merchandise, Finance, Communications, Personnel and Real Estate Divisions. He was appointed to lead a financially challenged Co-op Atlantic through a restructuring process. He focused on maximizing value for all stakeholders while maintaining the Atlantic Canadian Retail Co-operative system and was involved in the selling of business divisions.

Bryan was appointed to manage Co-op Atlantic’s food wholesale business, overseeing 80 grocery stores in Atlantic Canada and 60 employees. He was responsible for the transformation of the wholesale food business and the introduction of profitable retail food programs, helping grow both retail and wholesale sales.

Bryan was responsible for the growth and profitability of an agricultural wholesale/manufacturing business and other agricultural subsidiaries and joint ventures with $100 million annual sales. He enabled Co-op Atlantic to serve the best interests of farmers, co-operatively by functioning as an efficient and effective broker, manufacturer and/or supplier of feed and ingredients, farm supplies and equipment, including the purchase, production, marketing and distribution of same. He reorganized the division to increase profitability and started joint ventures with farms, improving the bottom line over 10 years. He provided leadership and direction to a total staff of 100 employees in farm stores, feed mills, feed brokerage, warehouse and Country Ribbon venture. He collaborated and built relationships with Co-operatives to ensure support of Co-op Atlantic initiatives. He led the construction of a new Commercial Livestock feed mill in Moncton, New-Brunswick (2011-2013) and participated in financing, designing and building the Feed Mill for less than $10 million.

Bryan was responsible for the growth and profitability of the agricultural wholesale/manufacturing division in addition to the independent food retail business at Co-op Atlantic, totaling $ 160 million annual sales. He promoted and managed the development of new wholesale and independent food business opportunities in the non-co-operative business sector, contributing to the viability and growth of the Co-op group. He developed and attained approved sales and expense budgets while creating policies and programs to effectively manage the agricultural and independent food division of Co-op Atlantic. He secured supply of feed products and ingredients, closely following trends in the agricultural industry.