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Britain’s Biggest Baker Succession W. Garfield Weston, Weston Biscuits plant opening, South Wales, U.K., 1938. With the death of his father, George Weston, W. Garfield Weston became president of George Weston Limited in 1924. Although he had effectively been running the company the past few years, it was nevertheless a great
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George Weston (March 23, 1865 – April 6, 1924) was an American-born Canadian businessman and the founder of George Weston Limited. He worked on a Canadian bread factory in Toronto. [1] Weston began his career at the age of 12 as a baker's apprentice and went on to become a bread route salesman. [2][3] He was also a Methodist as well as a ...
Key Dates: 1882: George Weston starts in business with two Toronto bread routes. 1896: Weston establishes a bread and cake bakery in Toronto, the Model Bakery. 1908: The bakery begins producing cookies. 1910: Weston merges his bread operations into the Canada Bread Company, while continuing to produce cake and cookies.
In 1882, Toronto bread salesman George Weston, who got his start at the age of 12 as a baker's apprentice, went into business for himself when he bought a bread route from his employer, G.H. Bowen. [4] Two years later, Weston bought out Bowen's Sullivan Street bakery and began baking and delivering his own bread.
In 1882, a young Toronto bread salesman and former baker’s apprentice named George Weston went into business for himself when he bought a bread route from his employer. By the turn of the century, Weston’s Bread was known throughout the city and George Weston had become Canada’s biggest baker. In 1924, George’s eldest son, Garfield ...
Baker’s Apprentice Model Bakery George Weston’s Model Bakery, Soho and Phoebe streets, Toronto, ca. 1897. As his business outgrew the bakery on Sullivan Street, George Weston made plans for a new, much larger, and very modern bread factory, which he called his Model Bakery. In the fall of 1897, the Model Bakery swung into production with an
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May 31, 2016 · 1882: George Weston, a Toronto bread salesman and former baker’s apprentice, goes into business for himself 1924: George’s eldest son, W. Garfield Weston, becomes president of George Weston Ltd., takes it public in 1928 and transforms it into a commercial food empire with holdings on several continents
