Reinventing a Giant: How Galen Weston Employs the Founder Mindset in a Family Empire

July 15
37 mins

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What does it take to be a founder?


Galen Weston didn’t build from zero — he rebuilt at scale. As leader of Loblaw and George Weston Limited, he transformed a legacy retail empire into a modern national powerhouse, proving that reinventing a giant can demand the same bold decisions as starting from scratch.


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