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Create AccountThis article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on December 14, 1998. Partner content is not updated.
On a chilly spring day in 1911, the decision reverberated through the executive offices of the Standard Oil Trust like a thunderclap: the worlds biggest oil company was to be broken into 34 corporate pieces by order of the U.S. government. Upon hearing this, John D.This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on May 18, 1998. Partner content is not updated.
No, Levi-Strauss is not in talks to merge with Italy's Armani. Nor, as far as anyone knows, is McDonald's planning to team up with a chain of snooty French restaurants.This 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 December 2, 1996. Partner content is not updated.
Mike Lowther calls it "Black Friday" - the day CANADIAN AIRLINES INTERNATIONAL LTD. told its 16,400 employees that the company was on the brink of collapse.This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on March 18, 1996. Partner content is not updated.
If Martin has his way, there will be one more budget - if only because he could then announce the virtual elimination of the federal deficit by the turn of the century.This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on February 28, 2000. Partner content is not updated.
It was an empire built upon scratchy radio stations, weekly newspapers and the hardscrabble mentality of Northern Ontario in the midst of the Great Depression. Founder Roy Thomson was like nothing Canada had ever produced.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 June 19, 1995. Partner content is not updated.
Then, three months ago, an opening suddenly appeared when takeover artist Gerald Schwartz of Toronto-based Onex Corp. began laying the groundwork for a hostile bid of $2.3 billion for John Labatt Ltd. of Toronto.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 March 13, 1995. Partner content is not updated.
A few minutes before Finance Minister Paul Martin was to deliver his budget speech in the House of Commons last week, he and Prime Minister Jean Chrétien met in Chrétien's second-floor office on Parliament Hill along with Martin's wife, Sheila, and Aline Chrétien.This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on October 20, 1997. Partner content is not updated.
So a smattering of women have actually made it to the top of the heap, the corporate pinnacle, the apex of conventional business achievement. Canada now has women running 10 of the top 500 revenue-churning, publicly traded companies in the land. Huzzahs.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 February 12, 1996. Partner content is not updated.
When he stepped into the job of president at Canadian Airlines International Ltd. four years ago, Kevin Jenkins decided to learn the ropes the hard way.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 March 3, 1997. Partner content is not updated.
On this crisp, clear mid-February afternoon, the mechanical colossus - the so-called topsides of the Hibernia drilling rig - towers over the shimmering waters of Newfoundland's Bull Arm.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.
