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...there's always plenty of emotional inventory anyway. But growth is a huge problem too, and managing it presents family firms with rosier but no less complex issues. "My brother-in-law and I were giving each other the finger. Nobody was showing up for Easter dinner," recounts Park Kerr, chairman and founder of the El Paso Chile Co., a $10 million-a-year specialty-food company that sells salsas and snacks to the likes of Williams Sonoma and Neiman Marcus. "Dealing with change in a family business--everything's personal. It's about money-equals-love, and who threw...
Like an increasing number of business owners who need to resolve conflicts, Kerr hired a family therapist, Deborah Bright of New York City, to sit down with him, his wife, mother, sister and brother-in-law and hash things...
...phenomenal trajectory of growth that tripped up El Paso Chile. Formed in 1980, when Park Kerr and his mother Norma sold decorative strings of chile peppers on the street in El Paso, Texas, the company within a decade was selling $1.5 million annually of food products such as salsas. But operations were tilting out of control, so mother and son brought in Kerr's brother-in-law Sean Henschel, a management consultant, to run things. Park's sister Monica also came to work in the company...
...AIDS epidemic in Africa is nothing less than an act of genocide. The fact that international political and corporate entities have thus far done so little to help only shows how cruel the market economy can be. JAMES KERR Montreal...
...cover picture of Ashcroft was a low blow. He shouldn't be Attorney General, but neither should he be demonized. You made him look like a Method actor playing the villain Iago in Shakespeare's Othello. CARL A. KERR Glenville, W.Va...