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George Weston Limited (), often called '''Weston's''' or simply '''Weston''', is a Canadian Food processing and distribution company, and one of Canada's most recognizable companies. It was founded in 1882 by George Weston . The company represented the North American operations of the Weston food empire, and upon the death of George Weston, control of George Weston, Ltd. fell to his son W. Garfield Weston (1898-1978), who built it into a multi-billion (CAD) dollar company. On his death, the current Chairman Galen Weston continued to expand the business into one of the largest food conglomerates in North America . While its origins are in the Baker y field, it also owned the E.B. Eddy Company , a Pulp And Paper business acquired in 1943. As well, Weston purchased Loblaw Companies Limited in 1947 and built it into the largest chain of Supermarket s in Canada. In recent years they acquired the Neilson Dairy . The company was founded on building strong Vertical Integration . For example the Weston grocery stores, sold the bread they manufactured, which contained the sugar that was refined at their own sugar refineries. BRANDS Bakery
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Brands: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE Current members of the , Robert Dart , Peter Eby , Phillip Farmer , Anne Fraser , R. Donald Fullerton , Anthony Graham , Mark Hoffman , Allan Leighton , John Makinson , Robert Prichard , Wendy Rebanks , Galen G. Weston , and W. Galen Weston (chairman). SEE ALSO Associated British Foods - the company built by George Weston, and controlled by Galen Weston, Sr.'s brother Garry until his death in 2002. Galen Weston, Sr. is currently a non-executive director of ABF. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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