{"id":5364,"date":"2010-10-04T09:38:54","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T14:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=5364"},"modified":"2011-03-11T14:20:30","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T19:20:30","slug":"loblaw-chairman-named-distinguished-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/10\/loblaw-chairman-named-distinguished-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Loblaw chairman named Distinguished Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5363\" style=\"width: 154px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5363\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5363  \" title=\"Galen Weston\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/galenwestonportrait.jpg\" alt=\"Galen Weston\" width=\"144\" height=\"198\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5363\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Galen Weston<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Galen Weston, executive chairman of Loblaw Companies Ltd., will be named the Faculty of Business&#8217;s 2010 Distinguished Leader on Oct. 13.<\/p>\n<p>Weston has been with Loblaw Companies for 11 years. Under his leadership, the company has undertaken a renewal plan to ensure long-term growth and stability. He has also overseen improvements in fresh foods, the strengthening and growth of President&#8217;s Choice and No Name brands and the emergence of Joe Fresh Style as one of the company&#8217;s top fashion brands.<\/p>\n<p>The Distinguished Leader Lecture Series was established by the Faculty of Business to honour leaders from the business community. It also gives students have a chance to hear the leaders speak in an intimate classroom setting and at a formal lecture presentation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are honoured to name Mr. Weston as this year\u2019s Distinguished Leader,\u201d said Philip Kitchen, Dean, Faculty of Business. \u201cHis value-based approach to business provides an excellent learning tool for our students and sets a positive example for responsible corporate culture. We are thrilled to have this opportunity for both our students and the Faculty of Business as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Weston will meet with a small group of Faculty of Business student leaders and will also address the larger business student population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Galen Weston will be named the Faculty of Business&#8217;s 2010 Distinguished Leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[3327],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5364"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8653,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5364\/revisions\/8653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}