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Karen flavelle biography

          Flavelle has been the recipient of the Women's Executive Network Hall of Fame award, Business In Vancouver's Women of Influence, EY Entrepreneur.

        1. Flavelle has been the recipient of the Women's Executive Network Hall of Fame award, Business In Vancouver's Women of Influence, EY Entrepreneur.
        2. Flavelle joined in after working in consumer packaged goods and marketing.
        3. Karen Flavelle is a second-generation President of Purdy's Chocolates, a fixture of households in Western Canada since
        4. Who is Karen Flavelle?
        5. Karen Flavelle (BCom), President and CEO of Purdy's Chocolates, is delighted that the company continues to thrive and move into new markets in Canada.

          6. Karen Flavelle is a second-generation President of Purdy's Chocolates, a fixture of households in Western Canada since...

          Influencer: Karen Flavelle

          The day before she leaves for her latest adventure — a heli-skiing trip in Iceland — Karen Flavelle reflects on the path that led her to where she is today, both professionally and personally.

          A range of experiences equipped Flavelle to eventually lead Purdys, the largest chocolatier in Canada: earning a B.Com from Queen’s University, plenty of international travel — she lived in Japan and London, training in classic packaged goods marketing at General Mills, and later growing the popular Swiss Chalet restaurant chain for six years as director of marketing to 140 restaurants, all while raising three children with her husband in Toronto.

          But despite her successes, Flavelle wanted to come home to Vancouver, and to the family business she had yet to be a part of.

          Her father Charles Flavelle and a partner bought Purdy’s in 1963, and grew the business from five shops to 28 shops by 1980, but he had discouraged his three children from entering the busin