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Create AccountThis article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on March 10, 1997. Partner content is not updated.
All had gathered to pay their last respects to Signy Eaton, the matriarch of the Eaton clan, widow of John David who had led the family's mighty retail chain in the halcyon days of the 1950s and 1960s, when the company controlled half of the country's department store sales.This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on Oct. 31, 1997. Partner content is not updated.
But they co-operate, nonetheless, in the conviction that everything they say and do on this day will be worthwhile if it helps them push through the merger.This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on March 3, 1997 Partner content is not updated.
John Felderhof is pacing like a panther. Boxed in a place he does not want to be. Hounded by people he does not like. He is grey-pale, his skin approximating the color of the smoke that rises from his Marlboro cigarette. Outside, the Jakarta air hangs at 30°C. The scenery is chaotic, Kodachromatic.This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on February 23, 1998. Partner content is not updated.
Steven Hudson learned early about the power of performance-based compensation. As a teenager in Scarborough, Ont., he took a job at a bingo hall for seniors, pushing a refreshment cart up and down the aisles. The more chips and popcorn he sold, the more money he took home.This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on May 6, 1996. Partner content is not updated.
Dashing from aisle to aisle in a newly opened Canadian Tire store in Newmarket, Ont., Stephen Bachand looks like a politician in mid-campaign. The U.S.-born businessman pumps hands with employees, shows off the building's features and passionately preaches about the "New Tire.This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on February 21, 2000. Partner content is not updated.
On Bay Street they call him the king of cable, but Ted Rogers' ambitions have always extended far beyond the television set. For years, the founder and chief executive officer of Rogers Communications Inc.This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on December 4, 1995. Partner content is not updated.
Ever since the first CP train pulled out of Montreal on June 28, 1886, bound for the new province of British Columbia, Canadian Pacific has played a dominant role in the nation's corporate mythology. And so last week, when CP Ltd.This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on April 12, 1999. Partner content is not updated.
David Masotti was in a buoyant mood as he addressed employees and guests at a Spar Aerospace research and development facility in Brampton, Ont., one day last June.This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on May 25, 1998. Partner content is not updated.
Montreal's Bronfman family is no stranger to controversy. After arriving in Canada from Russia in the 1890s, they made a fortune outrunning federal tax collectors and selling whisky to American mobsters. The next generation made headlines tussling over control of the family firm, Seagram Co. Ltd.This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on August 16, 1999. Partner content is not updated.
Edmund Clark is accustomed to trouble. Clark, 51, a career civil servant and financial services manager, was once nicknamed "Red Ed" for his role as one of the federal bureaucrats who designed the Trudeau government's National Energy Program in 1980.This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on November 2, 1998. Partner content is not updated.
Necessary downsizing or corporate greed? Canadian National Railway Co.s announcement last week of plans to slash 3,000 jobs quickly prompted those diametrically opposed views. CN executives said the cuts were required to make the company more competitive.This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on June 13, 2005. Partner content is not updated.
IS MICHAEL de GUZMAN DEAD OR ALIVE? Eight years after the Bre-X Minerals fraud was uncovered, the fate of its central figure still haunts us. Last month, it seemed, he briefly stepped out from the shadows. And just like that, he was gone again.This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on May 19, 1997. Partner content is not updated.
It was a cool night in Jakarta and the Shangri-La hotel was all aglitter. Valentines Day, 1997. Young couples swayed through the lobby, the ladies carrying helium heart-shaped balloons and single roses. A piano player sat at a full-sized grand, playing Johnny Mathis tunes.This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on March 20, 2000. Partner content is not updated.
As first days at the office go, it was the most bizarre in Peter Moss's career. On March 6, he reported for his first day as president of entertainment for Montreal-based children's TV programmer Cinar Corp. Moss arrived to find "the whole place had been turned upside down," he recalls.This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on August 11, 1997. Partner content is not updated.
In the aviation world, they still talk in hushed tones about the telephone call - the one in which BOMBARDIER Inc. coolly walked away from a billion-dollar sale. It happened in June, when all of the industrys major players were gathered at the Paris Air Show.This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on December 14, 1998. Partner content is not updated.
The big brick mansion breaks the gentle curve of the northwestern shore of Nova Scotia. Frank Sobey, the man who built Abercrombie House, lived on and off in the waterfront home until he died in 1985 at the age of 83.This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on August 30, 1999. Partner content is not updated.
It seemed like a simple, last-minute, prenuptial task. Jim Pole and Nicole Pelletier from Thunder Bay, Ont., were to be wed on Aug. 21 in the lush Montreal suburb of Vaudreuil. The day before the big event, they just wanted to pick up the groom's new $1,000 suit. After calling the T. EATON CO.This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on February 9, 1998. Partner content is not updated.
When he arrived at his Calgary office last Nov. 11 after unveiling a plan to split Nova Corp.'s pipeline and petrochemical operations into separate companies, CEO Ted Newall received an urgent message from his counterpart at TransCanada PipeLines Ltd.This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on April 29, 2002. Partner content is not updated.
In the Flower Power era of 1971, a bunch of University of British Columbia students, who'd rather have been playing outside, decided to start a business.This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on March 10, 1997. Partner content is not updated.
