
A former national-team sailor took over marketing at Kruger Products just as the tissue aisle became national news. Her response was to replace category polish with the useful, awkward truth of everyday life.
Kruger Products turned bathroom tissue into a portfolio game, then put nearly C$1 billion behind a pair of Sherbrooke plants. The bet is simple to describe and hard to copy: own the brands, modernize the mills, and make sustainability survive contact with the balance sheet.