Galen Weston
Businessperson, Organization leader
1940 –
Who is Galen Weston?
Willard Gordon Galen Weston, OC, OOnt is an English-Canadian businessman and philanthropist as well as Executive Chairman of George Weston Limited, a leading food processing and distribution company. W. Galen Weston and family, with an estimated net worth of $US 7.6 billion, are listed as the second wealthiest in Canada and 133rd in the world by Forbes magazine.
In addition to being one of the country’s leading bakers through wholly owned subsidiary Weston Foods, Galen Weston is also an experienced supermarket retailer who maintains controlling interest in Loblaw Companies, Canada’s largest food retailer, through a family holding company. Weston is 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 of Ireland, the De Bijenkorf department store chain in the Netherlands, and the recently acquired Ogilvy department store in Montreal. W. Galen Weston is Chairman of The W. Garfield Weston Foundation, a family-based private charitable trust which has made close to $200 million in donations over the past decade.
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- Born
- Oct 29, 1940
Marlow - Also known as
- Willard Gordon Galen Weston
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Hilary Weston
(1966 - )
- Hilary Weston
- Children
- Nationality
- Canada
- Profession
- Education
- University of Western Ontario
- Upper Canada College
- Employment
- Loblaw Companies
- President, George Weston Limited
- Lived in
- Ontario
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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