. - bob scully's world show is brought to you by redline communications.ing rugged wireless networks where nobody else will go. ♪ - hi, this is bob scully, and welcome to another edition of the world show: entrepreneurs/ the redline series. there are many rankings of major corporations in the business press. there is the fortune 500, the profit 100, the forbes 400, but in canada at least, by far the most prestigious is the global leaders list, and they might as well call it the global leaders shortlist - it's pretty hard to get onto it. to get on that list, you have to be one of the top 5 corporations in your sector in the world. one company that was comfortably ensconced there on that pedestal is russel metals, a canadian corporation that's been around since the 18th century, a metals distributor. you don't see the name very often, but it's one of those iceberg companies that performs essential services, unseen from the public, throughout the economy we only see the tip of that iceberg. it's a company that rakes in $3 billion in sales annually, and in 200

. - bob scully's world show is brought to you by redline communications.ringing rugged wireless networks where nobody else will go. ♪ - hi, this is bob scully, and welcome to another edition of the world show, a brand-new series this week - entrepreneurs/the redline series, where we'll be paying special attention to women entrepreneurs. and to do that, for our inaugural episode, let's travel back in time to 1893 to the village of lyn in the province of ontario, where a scotsman named joseph hudson starts a farm, and he gives it a scottish name: burnbrae. "now, what has that to do with women entrepreneurs?" you're saying. well, burnbrae is still there in the village of lyn, the very same farm bearing the very same name, doing the very same work, except that it's grown to be huge. it is now specialized in eggs - very innovative in that field, as you're about to discover. and it has grown to a size where, for instance, a million eggs are laying hens for burnbrae. but they're also doing it for the ceo, margaret hudson, great-granddaughter of joseph hudson. yes

. - bob scully's world show is brought to you by redline communications. bringing rugged wireless networks where nobody else will go. ♪ - hi, this is bob scully, and welcome to another edition of the world show, a brand-new series this week - entrepreneurs/the redline series, where we'll be paying special attention to women entrepreneurs. and to do that, for our inaugural episode, let's travel back in time to 1893 to the village of lyn in the province of ontario, where a scotsman named joseph hudson starts a farm, and he gives it a scottish name: burnbrae. "now, what has that to do with women entrepreneurs?" you're saying. well, burnbrae is still there in the village of lyn, the very same farm bearing the very same name, doing the very same work, except that it's grown to be huge. it is now specialized in eggs - very innovative in that field, as you're about to discover. and it has grown to a size where, for instance, a million eggs are laying hens for burnbrae. but they're also doing it for the ceo, margaret hudson, great-granddaughter of joseph hudson. y

. - bob scully's world show is brought to you by redline communications. bringing rugged wireless networks where nobody else will go. ♪ - hi, this is bob scully, and welcome to another edition of the world show: entrepreneurs/ the redline series. there are many rankings of major corporations in the business press. there is the fortune 500, the profit 100, the forbes 400, but in canada at least, by far the most prestigious is the global leaders list, and they might as well call it the global leaders shortlist - it's pretty hard to get onto it. to get on that list, you have to be one of the top 5 corporations in your sector in the world. one company that was comfortably ensconced there on that pedestal is russel metals, a canadian corporation that's been around since the 18th century, a metals distributor. you don't see the name very often, but it's one of those iceberg companies that performs essential services, unseen from the public, throughout the economy we only see the tip of that iceberg. it's a company that rakes in $3 billion in sales annually, and