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Tony Brand.
ALL IN THE FAMILY Story: Richard Stringfellow, Safetree Toroawhi
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ULTI-GENERATIONAL BUSINESSES are common in forestry, particularly among contractors. Brand Logging, Canterbury, is no exception. Dad, Tony Brand, founded the business in 1984 and his wife, Kerin, does the books. Eldest son, Simon, is Operations Manager and younger son, Adam, is Manager for one of the crews. Daughter, Gemma Mason,
Adam Brand.
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works one day a week in the office and her husband Craig is a Diesel Mechanic and works in the workshop. So, there are no prizes for guessing what this family talk about when they meet up for Sunday dinner. “Yeah, when we get together socially, we do talk a bit about forestry,” says Tony. “It’s good seeing the kids involved in
the industry you work in. Sometimes I hear people say, ‘Oh, I don’t want my kids doing what I’m doing’. Well, I don’t think that. I think we’ve got a great industry and they’ll be set up for life if they carry on with it.” Tony says his father got him into forestry: “We lived in Nelson and my dad worked for Baigents, putting in the forestry roads for the logging crews and the trucks. And I
Simon Brand.
