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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
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Galen Weston, Canadian Who Built Retail Empire, Dies at 80 Bloomberg 1 day ago Danielle Bochove
(Bloomberg) W.G. Galen Weston, the entrepreneur who built an Atlantic-spanning business network that made him one of the richest Canadians, has died. He was 80.
Weston died Monday “peacefully at home after a long illness faced with courage and dignity,” the Weston family said in a statement.
“In our business and in his life he built a legacy of extraordinary accomplishment and joy,” his son, Galen G. Weston, chief executive officer of George Weston Ltd., said. His daughter, Alannah Weston, the chairman of Selfridges Group, added, “The luxury retail industry has lost a great visionary.”