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W.G. Galen Weston, the Canadian billionaire who built his family’s bakery and grocery business into a global retail empire, died on Monday after a long illness. He was 80.
His contemporaries describe Weston as one of the most formidable and visionary leaders in Canadian business, a man of style and substance who turned Loblaw supermarkets into the biggest player in the country’s food chain.
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He was a philanthropist, a handsome and elegant dresser, a solid polo player into his middle age, a friend to the British Royal Family and reportedly the subject of a thwarted kidnapping plot by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in the 1980s. But those who knew him said he was a man most interested in other people, who preferred to spend his leisure time wandering the well-stocked aisles of Loblaws
Weston previously held executive and senior roles at food, retail and real estate giants his family founded or led including Loblaw Companies Ltd., Choice Properties, Selfridges Group and Weston Foods.
He retired as chairman of George Weston Ltd. in 2016 to make room for his son Galen G. Weston, a tradition set by his father, W. Garfield Weston, who also stepped down at the age of 75. As he pushed me and my sister up and down store aisles in a shopping cart, our Saturdays became lessons in retail, bakery, and real estate, where I also saw firsthand the fundamental values that lead to success, Galen G. Weston, who is also executive chairman and director of Loblaw, told The Canadian Press in an email.