The founding father of Canadian males’s clothes retailer Harry Rosen Inc. has died at 92.
Harry Rosen opened his first made-to-measure menswear retailer on Parliament Road in Toronto in 1954 and ran the corporate for 51 years till his son, Larry Rosen, grew to become chairman and CEO.
“It’s with a heavy coronary heart we announce the passing of our founder and visionary Harry Rosen. Beginning with a $500 mortgage and a dream, Harry willed his enterprise into existence one shopper at a time. His ardour for menswear and trend was contagious; his means to show and encourage had been unparalleled,” Larry Rosen mentioned in a press release on Monday.
He added, “The group he constructed and the values he instilled have helped the enterprise span throughout the nation, three generations, and practically 70 years. Phrases merely can’t summarize the impression he had on us all.”
An Order of Canada recipient in 2004, Rosen was concerned philanthropically within the Canadian Paraplegic Affiliation, Company Fund for Breast Most cancers, Most cancers Care Fund, Mt. Sinai Buddies for Life marketing campaign, United Approach, CAMH and UHN.
Whereas the corporate bearing his identify was identified for dressing Canada’s most distinguished elite in tailor-made fits, with 19 shops throughout Canada, it had expanded lately to incorporate an informal put on assortment.
A posting on Benjamin’s Park Memorial Chapel says Rosen is survived by his spouse of 68 years, Evelyn, together with 4 youngsters, 9 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren.
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