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Weston was 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
Holt, Renfrew & Co., Limited (doing business as Holt Renfrew and colloquially Holt's) [1] is a Canadian luxury department store chain founded in 1837 by William S. Henderson. The original William Ashton & Co. store in Quebec City , Lower Canada (now Quebec ) operated as a fur shop.
In 2018, the Westons were named Ireland's richest family for the tenth year running, with a wealth of €11.42 billion. [8]In the Sunday Times Rich List 2020 ranking of the wealthiest people in the UK, "Guy Weston, Galen Weston Jr., George G. Weston and family" placed 8th in the list, with an estimated family fortune of £10.53 billion.
Galen Weston OC OOnt (1940–2021) – owner of Loblaws, Holt Renfrew, and Selfridges; Chip Wilson (born 1956) – founder of Lululemon Athletica; Walter Wolf (born 1939) – oil drilling equipment supplier and Formula 1 team owner; Bob Young (born 1953/1954) – self-publishing website, owner of CFL Hamilton Tiger Cats
Holt Renfrew Ogilvy, formerly and still colloquially Ogilvy (French: La Maison Ogilvy), is a Canadian department store founded in 1866 by James Angus Ogilvy. It is located in the downtown neighborhood of Montreal, Quebec, and as the only one of four major west-end stores in the city that has retained its original name, has been nicknamed the "grande dame of Saint Catherine Street". [1]
Upon his death, the Quebec Morning Chronicle described him as "one of Quebec’s most prominent and enterprising citizens." [35] John Henderson Holt (1850–1915) – co-founder of Holt, Renfrew & Co., Limited. [36] George Richard Renfrew (1831–1897) – in collaboration with John Henderson Holt, co-founded Holt, Renfrew & Co., Limited. [36]
The long-time Downtown Calgary store, designed by Ross and Macdonald in the 1920s, was largely demolished in 1988, although two facades were preserved and incorporated into a new Holt Renfrew store as part of a redevelopment of Calgary Eaton Centre (in 2009 Holt Renfrew re-opened in what was once Eaton's second downtown location).
[42] [132] Speaking in 2000, Barbara Atkin, fashion director for Holt Renfrew, felt that McQueen was just one of many designers beginning to subversively reject classical beauty standards. [133] Horyn's review considered Voss in conjunction with Apocalypse: Beauty and Horror in Contemporary Art , an exhibition then running at the Royal Academy ...