A refusal to compromise continually drives Michel Saillant, president, Boulart Inc., Lachine, Quebec, to new levels of success. From the point of founding the bakery in 2007 with one private label customer to today with distribution across all of Canada and the U.S., his vision has remained intact. “We chose to start big, which is relatively rare for a startup,” says Saillant. “From the start, we decided not to compromise on the space or machinery we sought, nor on the purity and quality of the breads that we wanted to produce in great quantity. This meant that from the get-go, we were built to handle high-volume retail customers looking to make a quality, authentic product accessible. This is what makes us a success.”