Galen Weston, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Galen Weston

Canadian billionaire

Date of Birth: 29-Oct-1940

Place of Birth: Marlow, England, United Kingdom

Profession: entrepreneur

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Willard Gordon Galen Weston (born October 29, 1940) is a British-Canadian businessman and philanthropist as well as Chairman Emeritus of George Weston Limited, a leading 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).In addition to being one of the country's leading bakers through wholly owned subsidiary Weston Foods, 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 in Ireland, the De Bijenkorf department store chain in the Netherlands, and the recently acquired Ogilvy department store in Montreal.
Weston is Chairman of The W.
Garfield Weston Foundation, a family-based private charitable foundation that has made close to $200 million in donations over the past decade.