My Peerless Story: It Starts with the Collar (Footprints Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (810 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B072NFWQDR |
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| Number of Pages | : | 298 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-07 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Today he is the chairman and chief executive officer of the largest supplier of men’s fine-tailored clothing in North America, and is considered an outstanding business and community leader, at the forefront of policy-making in Canada’s apparel industry, with commitments to philanthropic efforts that echo his business accomplishments.In My Peerless Story, Segal recounts how he learned business from the collar down and from the ground up, transforming a family-owned business into one that would eventually come to licence labels such as Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, and Michael Kors. In 1951, Alvin Cramer Segal, at the age of eighteen and without a formal education, started working in the factory of his stepfather’s company in Montreal. Sharing anecdotes and personal experiences, Segal describes the history of garment manufacturing in Montreal and his intuitive strategies to leverage growth by improving fabrics, and adapting to innovative changes in the industry, eventually becoming the main inventory source of designer label suits to major department stores.Written from the heart, not as a handbook but rather as the story of a well-suited business career, My Peerless Story nonetheless includes relevant business lessons for the aspiring and inspired.
"A Life Well Lived and Well Weitten." according to RV. This is a marvellous read about the many successes and some difficulties of a self-made businessman in the men's clothing business. His story of determination, intelligence and luck is told with candor and insight. We can all learn the value of perserverance, humility and devotion to community by reading this wel
His story about how he made Peerless Clothing into a world leader in the production of men’s suits is a straight-ahead account of savvy business practice, exceedingly hard work, and fearlessness in the face of risk both a valuable document for anyone building a company who wants to know how high-wire entrepreneurship works, and an important contribution to the history of garment manufacturing in Montreal.” Bryan Demchinsky, former business editor at The Montreal Gazette. Alvin Segal’s voice is as authentic and honest as there is in the Montreal business community