George Weston Limited (WNGRF)

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George Weston Limited

22 St. Clair Avenue East
Suite 800
Toronto, ON M4T 2S5
Canada

https://www.weston.ca

Sector(s): Consumer Defensive
Industry: Grocery Stores
Full Time Employees: 226,299

Key Executives

Name	Title	Pay	Exercised	Year Born
Mr. Galen G. Weston M.B.A., B.A., M.B.A	Chairman & CEO	2.39M	N/A	1973
Mr. Richard Dufresne	Pres & CFO	1.65M	N/A	N/A
Mr. Darren G. Myers	Chief Financial Officer of Loblaw	1.51M	N/A	1974
Mr. Luc Mongeau	Pres of Weston Foods	2.09M	N/A	N/A
Mr. John Williams	Group Treasurer & Head of Corp. Fin.	N/A	N/A	1966
Ms. Tara Speers	Sr. Director of Investor Relations	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mr. Gordon Andrew McDonald Currie	Exec. VP & Chief Legal Officer	N/A	N/A	1959
Mr. Khush Dadyburjor	Chief Strategy Officer	N/A	N/A	1967
Mr. Rashid Wasti	Exec. VP & Chief Talent Officer	N/A	N/A	1968
Wendy Mizuno	Group Head of Pensions & Benefits	N/A	N/A	N/A

Amounts are as of December 31, 2020 and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. Pay is salary, bonuses, etc. Exercised is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year. Currency in USD.

Description

George Weston Limited provides food and drug retailing, and financial services in Canada and internationally. The company operates through three segments: Loblaw Companies Limited (Loblaw), Choice Properties Real Estate Investment Trust (Choice Properties), and Weston Foods. The Loblaw segment provides grocery, pharmacy, health and beauty, apparel, general merchandise, and financial services. It operates retail drug stores under the Shoppers Drug Mart. This segment also provides credit card services, insurance brokerage services, guaranteed investment certificates, and wireless mobile products and services; and operates merchandisers, warehouse clubs, e-commerce retailers and businesses, mail order prescription drug distributors, limited assortment stores, discount stores, convenience stores, and specialty stores. The Choice Properties segment owns, develops, and manages commercial, retail, industrial, office, and residential properties consisting of 731 properties. The Weston Foods segment produces fresh, frozen, and specialty bakery products, such as bread, rolls, cupcakes, donuts, cookies, cakes, pies, cones and wafers, artisan baked goods, and other products through national and regional supermarkets, wholesale and club stores, dollar stores, convenience store chains, food service distributors, and outlets, as well as other food retailing customers. This segment also supplies control brand products to retailers and distributors; ice cream cones and sandwich wafers to manufacturers in the frozen novelty category; and Girl Scout cookies. It provides products under the Wonder, Gadoua, Weston, Rubschlager, ACE Bakery, Casa Mendosa, Country Harvest, All but Gluten, and D'Italiano brands. The company was founded in 1882 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada. George Weston Limited is a subsidiary of Wittington Investments, Limited.

Corporate Governance

George Weston Limited’s ISS Governance QualityScore as of September 26, 2021 is 5. The pillar scores are Audit: 3; Board: 5; Shareholder Rights: 7; Compensation: 1.

Corporate governance scores courtesy of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). Scores indicate decile rank relative to index or region. A decile score of 1 indicates lower governance risk, while a 10 indicates higher governance risk.