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W. Galen Weston, Who Transformed a Family Food Empire, Dies at 80
Faced with the task of turning around a nearly bankrupt supermarket chain, he made private-label merchandise fashionable.
W. Galen Weston at the 2011 shareholders’ meeting of George Weston Ltd., the family-controlled holding company where he was chairman until 2016.Credit.Mark Blinch/Reuters
April 26, 2021Updated 7:16 p.m. ET
W. Galen Weston, a polo partner of Prince Charles who transformed and expanded the international food empire founded by his grandfather, a baker, and went on to collect luxury department stores, died on April 12 at his home in Toronto. He was 80.
His death was announced by George Weston Ltd., the family-controlled holding company where he had been chairman until retiring in 2016. The announcement did not say what the cause was.