family business – Inside GSB

The 10th annual UVM Grossman School of Business Family Business Awards honored four family businesses in the Keller Room, Ifshin Hall,Friday October 1, 2021.

family business awards, UVM, grossman school of business — 2021 Winners 1st Row L-R: Lawsons Finest Liquids, H. N. Williams Store, Inc., 2nd Row L-R: Girouxs Poultry Farm, Giroux Orchards LLC and Giroux Grain Farm LLC, Healthy Living Market (Photos: Andy Duback)

An independent judging panel, comprised of past winners, local business ownersand alumni, selected the winners run by UVM’s alumni based on the following criteria: financial success; governance structures; contributions to the community and industry; and sustainable, innovative business practices or strategies.

Congratulations to our 2021 Family Business Award winners, and thank you to everyone who attended our annual celebration of family enterprises.

The winners:

Girouxs Poultry Farm, Giroux Orchards LLC & Giroux Grain Farm LLC, Chazy, NY

Healthy Living Market, South Burlington, VT

H. N. Williams Store, Inc., Dorset, VT

Lawsons Finest Liquids, Waitsfield, VT

Nominate your favorite family businesses for 2022 here.

Here at the University of Vermont, Grossman School of Business, we are recognized as a worldwide leader at the vanguard of research and education on sustainability and innovation of enterprising families.

Our undergraduate and graduate curriculums bring together the brightest minds to explore how many of the worlds most iconic mission-driven family businesses and their leaders, operate their enterprises sustainably.

Our dean, Dr. Sanjay Sharma, was recently featured by leading family business media outlet Tharawat Magazine – Family Business & Entrepreneurship and you can read his insights on how and why enterprising families should capitalize on next-generation passion, senior-generation wisdom and, most importantly, multigenerational collaboration to drive the necessary change. Because, as Dean Sharma puts it, Theres no going back; businesses must prioritize sustainable development or be left behind.

Read it via the link The Only Way Forward: Multigenerational Collaboration for a Sustainable Future. #sustainability #familybusiness #UVMBiz #sustainablebusiness

Grossman School of Business, Dean Sanjay Sharma — Grossman School of Business – Dean Sanjay Sharma