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Can't Buy Me Love
Rod McQueen
其他書名
How Martha Billes Made Canadian Tire Hers
出版Stoddart, 2001
主題Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / BusinessBusiness & Economics / Industries / Manufacturing
ISBN07737332219780773733220
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ofW1AAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Rod McQueen, Canada's bestselling chronicler of the rich and the famous, now turns his investigative powers and wit to the story of Canada's wealthiest and most powerful business woman, Marth Billes. When her father, the legendary A.J. Billes ran Canadian Tire, women were not allowed anywhere near the corridors of power. Martha's two brothers were appointed to the board of directors in the 1960s, but she was ignored until 1980. In the mid-1980s, a frustrated Martha launched an intricate plan to buy her brothers out, a dream that was finally fulfilled in 1987. Today she is reigning queen of Canada's best-shopped retailer, a macho paradise of autoparts and lube jobs with $5 billion in annual sales. Besides detailing behind-the-scenes family struggles on Billes's way to the top, Can't Buy Me Love also tracks her controversial personal relationships, including a court battle with Paul McAteer, her former lover and business partner. McQueen follows Billes on her travels from condominiums and houses in Toronto, Calgary and shanty Bay on Lake Simcoe, and from her early life in the Forest Hill neighbourhood of Toronto to the boardroom of Canadian Tire, to paint a multifaceted portrait of the most complex woman in Canadian business.