{"id":29987,"date":"2021-04-16T09:30:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T14:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=29987"},"modified":"2021-04-16T09:30:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T14:30:58","slug":"canadian-retail-giant-w-galen-weston-dies-at-age-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/news\/canadian-retail-giant-w-galen-weston-dies-at-age-80\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian retail giant W. Galen Weston dies at age 80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Patriarch of the Weston empire that owns Loblaws died peacefully \u2018after a long illness,\u2019 according to his family.<\/strong><\/p><p>W. Galen Weston, the patriarch of the Weston empire that controls Loblaws&nbsp;and other retail holdings,&nbsp;has died at the age of 80, his family have said.<\/p><p>Known as Galen Weston Sr., he died on Monday, \u201cpeacefully at home after a long illness faced with courage and dignity,\u201d his family said in a statement.<\/p><p>Born in England in 1940, Weston earned a degree at&nbsp;the University of Western Ontario in the 1960s. After a time spent in Ireland, where he met his wife and had two children, he made Canada his main base of operations from the 1970s onwards.<\/p><p>Apart from Loblaws, Weston also ran the George Weston Co., a holding company for various food and bakery brands. He retired in 2016 at the age of 75 and handed the reins over to his son.<\/p><p>\u201cMy father\u2019s greatest gift was inspiring those around him to achieve more than they thought possible,\u2019 his son Galen Weston Jr., who&nbsp;is CEO of both Loblaws and the&nbsp;George Weston Company&nbsp;Ltd, said in the family statement. \u201cIn our business and in his life he built a legacy of extraordinary accomplishment and joy.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patriarch of the Weston empire that owns Loblaws died peacefully  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":29990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1338],"tags":[4623],"class_list":["post-29987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-w-gaken-weston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29999,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29987\/revisions\/29999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}