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“It’s been quite
a ride ... high highs and low lows; it’s been an incredible learning experience.”
for what would make a great gift.”
Of course, this story is about more than
wine. It’s also about cheese — or cheeses, to be more precise. It’s also about spirits of all kinds now. It’s also about making connections with customers and the community, and educat-
ing people about wine, not just selling it by the bottle or case.
And, of course, it’s about entrepreneurship and two people settling into that role after working for others and not really enjoying it, and desiring something else.
McAmis and Hyde look the part, and they also sound the part, using words and phrases that anyone who has gone into business for themselves — especially over the past several years — would use.
“It’s been quite a ride ... high highs and low lows; it’s been an incredible learning experi- ence,” said Hyde as he talked about everything from accelerated expansion to coping with a pandemic that forced them to find new ways of doing business and had both of them venturing out to make deliveries themselves.
McAmis echoed those thoughts as he talked about their venture. He actually uttered the words “it’s been fun,” and then retracted the statement. Well, sort of. He said it’s occasionally been fun, but mostly it’s been a stern challenge, one that has tested them in all kinds of ways.
“I love it ... I rarely, if ever, take a whole day off, but that’s part of being an entrepreneur, I guess,” he said. “It’s been intense, but rewarding on many levels.”
For their work to make Provisions a regional story, one with many chapters still to be written, Hyde and McAmis have been named BusinessWest’s Top Entrepreneurs for 2022. They continue a tradition of entrepreneurship in this region that goes back more than 300 years, and they join a distinguished list of previous win-
The Provisions owners aim to satisfy an evolving market when it comes to how people buy wine, and who is buying it.
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ners of this award.
That list includes a college president, a hospital administrator,
a public utility, the founders of several tech startups, many family- owned ventures, and several individuals and partnerships like the one forged by McAmis and Hyde.
For this issue, BusinessWest tells their story and, in the process of doing so, explains why they are more than worthy of this coveted honor.
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