The third richest person in Canada, Galen Weston has earned his billions from his food distribution company Weston Foods. If that wasn’t enough of an income stream, Weston also heads up luxury goods retailers Holt Renfrew of Canada, Selfridges of the UK, Brown Thomas of Ireland, the De Bijenkorf department store chain in the Netherlands and the Ogilvy department store in Montreal. His son Galen Jr (pictured) is now taking over the helm, running several of his father's businesses.

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