Surviving for 100
years may be tougher for a family business — especially a clothing business —
than for a family home. But the Goldman family’s enFind brand-name hublotreplicaat your
fingertips with fast,terprises are two-thirds of the way there. Murray Goldman,
who co-founded Boston Clothing in 1946 and his self-named shop two years later,
retired in 2005 from M.G. Ltd., the family’s wholly owned umbrella company. Son
David, 62, joined in 1971, and in 1988 began growing the current five-store
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subsidiary named Bus Stop. Grandson Sammy, 35, takes a progressively greater
role. Great-grandson Henry, 3, may front the firm in its second century.
Remarkably, M.G. Ltd’s support team was there at the start. That’s the Bank of Nova Scotia, the Collins Barrow chartered accountancy (managing partner Gordon Duff handles Boys’ Co), and the Koffman Kalef (Morley Koffman,Find the largest selection of discount luxury watches including piagetwatches, QC, point man) law firm that was Freeman & Co. in 1946.
Tradition’s fine. Relinquishing a competitive edge isn’t. That might have happened in 2002, when Boys’ Co had a deal to locate in Yorkdale Shopping Centre,Order high quality breitlingwatches at home. We will run out of fake watches of all popular brands of our online shop! Canada’s highest gross-per-square-foot retail locale. Realizing that successful management and infrastructure would need at least two more Toronto outlets, the Goldman’s backtracked to compete with what David calls “the best of the best,” meaning American and international chains in Vancouver and “everybody in the world’s ecommerce sites.” As for the Forever 21 chain soon to locate directly across Robson Street, and especially Seattle-based Nordstrom renovating the nearby Sears (earlier Eaton’s) department store, David said: “They will bring more traffic of my genre downtown, and I like that.”
He also likes the way David Gray’s DIG360 Consulting Ltd. and the GrowthPoint Group under CEO Neil Belenkie helped impart internal strategies to back up an “It’s A Guy Thing” advertising and loyalty campaign generated by Jonathan Greenstein and the Juice Group here. But Boys’ Co’s fashion smarts are strictly a Goldman thing, refined on 10-a-year visits to L.A., four to New York and Toronto, two to London and one to Berlin. Poking around stores there, David finds exclusive lines like Civilianaire, Workshop and Fidelity. And exclusive is good because “anyone can scan [a garment’s] bar code on his phone and have five suppliers in seconds.”
Knowing that consumers “shop smarter than ever, mixing a basic piece from Store X and a high-priced one from Store Y,” David said: “We, as a multi-brand store, can do it from within,” meaning maybe a $30 T-shirt teamed with a $550 sport jacket.” With half the staff in place for over 10 years, and general manager Michael Roley for 28, they close many sales, too. “We laugh and we crack jokes,” David said. “But we’re always planning for the future. We believe in Vancouver, in ourselves as a family-based business, and we still love what we do.”
BABY NEEDS NEW SHOES: Many bettors muttered that when the Randall and Diamond families operated what is now Hastings Racecourse. This week, descendant Jennifer Randall Nelson began providing such footwear, along with at least 500 other items for the very young. But the BabyGoRound boutique facility she opened at Kingsway off Rupert Street wasn’t an adjunct to her and Sheila Kern’s marketing and media-services firm, Bloom Communications. Instead, it provides donated new or “gently used” clothing and products to families with limited resources.
Randall Nelson recruited design firm owners Sophie Burke and Margot Jagger, Canaccord senior investment adviser Fatima Charinia, lawyer Wendy King and at-home mom Sally Dreaver as fellow volunteers, made BabyGoRound a registered society, and partnered with YWCA Metro Vancouver to identify clients “in the greatest need.” Army & Navy Stores owner Jacqui Cohen pledged 90 per cent of the society’s three-year funding from the Face The World charity she founded to make a winning bet all around.
Remarkably, M.G. Ltd’s support team was there at the start. That’s the Bank of Nova Scotia, the Collins Barrow chartered accountancy (managing partner Gordon Duff handles Boys’ Co), and the Koffman Kalef (Morley Koffman,Find the largest selection of discount luxury watches including piagetwatches, QC, point man) law firm that was Freeman & Co. in 1946.
Tradition’s fine. Relinquishing a competitive edge isn’t. That might have happened in 2002, when Boys’ Co had a deal to locate in Yorkdale Shopping Centre,Order high quality breitlingwatches at home. We will run out of fake watches of all popular brands of our online shop! Canada’s highest gross-per-square-foot retail locale. Realizing that successful management and infrastructure would need at least two more Toronto outlets, the Goldman’s backtracked to compete with what David calls “the best of the best,” meaning American and international chains in Vancouver and “everybody in the world’s ecommerce sites.” As for the Forever 21 chain soon to locate directly across Robson Street, and especially Seattle-based Nordstrom renovating the nearby Sears (earlier Eaton’s) department store, David said: “They will bring more traffic of my genre downtown, and I like that.”
He also likes the way David Gray’s DIG360 Consulting Ltd. and the GrowthPoint Group under CEO Neil Belenkie helped impart internal strategies to back up an “It’s A Guy Thing” advertising and loyalty campaign generated by Jonathan Greenstein and the Juice Group here. But Boys’ Co’s fashion smarts are strictly a Goldman thing, refined on 10-a-year visits to L.A., four to New York and Toronto, two to London and one to Berlin. Poking around stores there, David finds exclusive lines like Civilianaire, Workshop and Fidelity. And exclusive is good because “anyone can scan [a garment’s] bar code on his phone and have five suppliers in seconds.”
Knowing that consumers “shop smarter than ever, mixing a basic piece from Store X and a high-priced one from Store Y,” David said: “We, as a multi-brand store, can do it from within,” meaning maybe a $30 T-shirt teamed with a $550 sport jacket.” With half the staff in place for over 10 years, and general manager Michael Roley for 28, they close many sales, too. “We laugh and we crack jokes,” David said. “But we’re always planning for the future. We believe in Vancouver, in ourselves as a family-based business, and we still love what we do.”
BABY NEEDS NEW SHOES: Many bettors muttered that when the Randall and Diamond families operated what is now Hastings Racecourse. This week, descendant Jennifer Randall Nelson began providing such footwear, along with at least 500 other items for the very young. But the BabyGoRound boutique facility she opened at Kingsway off Rupert Street wasn’t an adjunct to her and Sheila Kern’s marketing and media-services firm, Bloom Communications. Instead, it provides donated new or “gently used” clothing and products to families with limited resources.
Randall Nelson recruited design firm owners Sophie Burke and Margot Jagger, Canaccord senior investment adviser Fatima Charinia, lawyer Wendy King and at-home mom Sally Dreaver as fellow volunteers, made BabyGoRound a registered society, and partnered with YWCA Metro Vancouver to identify clients “in the greatest need.” Army & Navy Stores owner Jacqui Cohen pledged 90 per cent of the society’s three-year funding from the Face The World charity she founded to make a winning bet all around.
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