For the current Loblaw executive chairman and spokesperson, see Galen Weston Jr.
Galen Weston
OC CVO OOnt
Weston at the Canadian Film Centre Gala in February 2013
Born
Willard Gordon Galen Weston
(1940-10-29)October 29, 1940
Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England
Died
April 12, 2021(2021-04-12) (aged 80)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Nationality
British
Canadian
Education
St Paul's School, London
Alma mater
University of Western Ontario
Occupation
Businessman
Title
Chairman Emeritus of George Weston Limited Chairman of The W. Garfield Weston Foundation
Spouse
Hilary Frayne
(m. 1966)
Children
Alannah Weston[1] Galen Weston Jr.
Relatives
W. Garfield Weston (father) George Weston (grandfather)
Willard Gordon Galen WestonOC CVO OOnt (October 29, 1940 – April 12, 2021) was a British-Canadian billionaire businessman and Chairman Emeritus of George Weston Limited, a Canadian food processing and distribution company. Weston and his family, with an estimated net worth of US$8.7 billion, are listed as the third wealthiest in Canada and 178th in the world by Forbes magazine (June 2019).[2]
In addition to being one of the country's leading bakers through wholly owned subsidiary Weston Foods, he was an experienced supermarket retailer who maintained a controlling interest in Loblaw Companies, Canada's largest food retailer, through a family holding company. Weston was also head of the world's second-largest luxury goods retailer as chairman of Holt Renfrew in Canada and the Selfridges Group, owner of Selfridges in the United Kingdom, Brown Thomas in Ireland, the De Bijenkorf department store chain in the Netherlands, and the recently acquired Ogilvy department store in Montreal. Weston was chairman of The W. Garfield Weston Foundation, a Canadian charitable foundation that has made close to $200 million in donations over the past decade.
^Cite error: The named reference Alannah was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"Galen Weston and family". Forbes.com. Archived from the original on August 13, 2019. Retrieved June 6, 2019.
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