Join us for cocktails/snacks, community and a discussion about how social enterprise and entrepreneurship can compliment each other.
We are honored to host a special event with the United Way of Calgary at the beautiful Gerry Thomas Gallery on November 8th.
Our feature fireside chat will be with Manjit Minhas, Co-founder & CEO at Minhas Breweries, Wineries & Distillery and current Dragon on Dragons' Den.
We will also have a presentation by the COO of the United Way of Calgary and Area, Beth Gignac, on how commercial strategies can be aligned to maximize social impact and profits.
Our feature local startup will be Local Laundry, an apparel company that focuses on designs that reflect local communities and who donates 10% of their profits to local charities.
Minhas Breweries, Wineries & Distillery
Co-founder & CEO
Manjit Minhas is the co-founder and co-owner of Minhas Breweries, Distillery and Wineries. Though trained as a petroleum engineer, she has become a specialist in brand development, marketing, sales management and retail negotiations, having been recognized for several business industry awards such as PROFIT magazine's "Top Growth Entrepreneur", Top 100 Women Entrepreneurs in Canada, Canada's T…
Manjit Minhas is the co-founder and co-owner of Minhas Breweries, Distillery and Wineries. Though trained as a petroleum engineer, she has become a specialist in brand development, marketing, sales management and retail negotiations, having been recognized for several business industry awards such as PROFIT magazine's "Top Growth Entrepreneur", Top 100 Women Entrepreneurs in Canada, Canada's Top 40 under 40, Chatelaine Magazine's "Top Entrepreneur Woman of The Year 2011", Ernst and Young's Entrepreneur of The Year Prairie Region and The Sikh Centennial Foundation Award 2015.
When Manjit Minhas was 19-years-old, she and her brother Ravinder scraped together $10,000 to launch their first beer in Alberta. In 2006, they purchased the second oldest brewery in the United States and renamed it "Minhas Craft Brewery." At the time, this acquisition officially made the Minhas siblings the youngest brewery owners in the world.
Their group of breweries is the ninth largest in the world, and as a company they produce more than 120 beers, spirits, liqueurs and wines that ship all across Canada and the U.S., as well as overseas to 16 different countries. Minhas Brewery makes all of the Kirkland brand beer for Costco worldwide, as well as all the craft beers under Trader Joes' label in the US. Today they run a group of companies that generated over $187-million in revenue last year.
Manjit donates her time and money to charities such as The United Way (she is the co-chair of the 2017 United Way Campaign) and Ronald McDonald House. The Minhas siblings also fund a free, all-girls engineering school in India.
Manjit lives in Calgary, where she was born and raised, with her husband and two young daughters.
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