What is preventing Tim Hortons in Canada from becoming a “down-and-dirty CCAA“?

Radical re-allocations of wealth require a conducive environment.

Patrick Gibbons: “We want to grow together. My measurement of success will be how many millionaire franchisees there are out there.”

Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act, CCAA, Industry Canada

Case: Country Style

• Country Style franchisee challenges creditors’ meeting, Oliver Bertin, The Globe and Mail, March 4, 2002.
• Out of the deep fryer: Country Style grapples with the after-effects of insolvency, Madhavi Acharya-om Yew, The Toronto Star, March 23, 2002.
• In the Hole: A restructuring plan at Country Style doughnuts has some feeling fried, Kevin Libin and David Menzies, Canadian Business magazine, April 1, 2002.