[International Women's Day] Major cannabis grower, based in Strathroy, boosts women's role in industry

Happy International Women's Day, Eve & Co. is a majority women's Cannabis cultivation company located here in Ontario Canada, 

"With women accounting for three-quarters of its leadership team, a Southwestern Ontario cannabis company is on a mission to bring more women into Canada’s pot industry.

Strathroy-based marijuana grower Eve & Co. posted profiles of its female staffers to social media this week leading up to International Women’s Day on Friday.

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“One of the things that I’ve always said is that I want to empower women,” Eve & Co.  chief executive Melinda Rombouts said. “That first starts with empowering our team.”

The former operator of a Strathroy flower-growing operation, Rombouts founded Eve and Co., a female-focused cannabis company for the recreational market, and its subsidiary, Natural MedCo., a medical marijuana producer.

Today, two-thirds of the company’s 63 employees are women, including three-quarters of the management team — an impressive feat in a male-dominated industry with only a handful of companies headed by women.

One of the women highlighted in the daily profiles is Kelsey Jobson, who oversees the company’s partnerships with provinces and handles regulatory affairs, among a wide-ranging list of other responsibilities.

Last year, Jobson was tasked with figuring out how to ship cannabis clones — small marijuana plants grown from the cuttings of a mother plant — to New Brunswick after the company became the first to supply the Maritime province’s grow-your-own cannabis market....."

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Source : The London Free Press ( https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/major-cannabis-grower-based-in-strathroy-boosts-womens-role-in-industry)