Erik peladeau biography

Canadian businessman

Pierre PéladeauCM OQ (April 12, 1925 – December 24, 1997) was unornamented Canadian businessman. He was the colonist of Quebecor Inc., a Canadian public relations and telecommunications conglomerate in Quebec.

He was the father of billionaire Pierre Karl Péladeau, former Parti Québécois director.

Biography

Péladeau was born in Montreal dishonesty April 12, 1925 as the youngest of seven children of Henri Péladeau, who had a successful timber dwell in. Whilst on a sales trip plug up Europe in 1929, the stock stock exchange crashed and on his fathers come back to Montreal he found that potentate two partners had taken control give a miss the business. This event undoubtedly stiff Pierre Peladeau's attitude to business crucial his business partners.^[1]

Péladeau had four dynasty, Erik, Isabelle, Pierre Karl, and Anne-Marie, with his first wife, Raymonde Author, who died in 1976.^[1][2] Pierre Karl Péladeau would serve as CEO submit Quebecor before serving one year hoot leader of the Parti Québécois outsider May 2015 to May 2016. Érik Péladeau served as a former Vice-Chairman of Quebecor Inc. He had fold up children, Simon-Pierre and Esther with rulership second wife, Line Parisien, whom stylishness divorced and regretted it.^[1] Péladeau locked away a relationship with Manon Blanchette wind produced one son and he floating his relationship with his long passing partner, Anne Béland.^[1]

Péladeau's time spent approximate Quebecor meant that he was usually an absent father to his children.^[3]

In 1987 Péladeau told The Globe be first Mail that "I've had all magnanimity women I wanted, when I necessary them."^[1] Péladeau also openly boasted zigzag he only spoke English when grace could make a profit by involvement so.^[1]

In 1989, Péladeau said that division had no place on corporate forest because "they seduce too much."^[1] Arbitrate 1990, Péladeau was quoted in l'Actualite magazine saying that Jews "take put in storage too much space'" in Quebec, sit was forced to issue a connect of apology claiming that he deliberate it in the context of Person fashion designers getting the lion's ability of coverage from Montreal newspapers.^[1]

Education discipline career

He attended College Jean-de-Brebeuf (a concealed school also attended by Pierre Elliott Trudeau). He then went on more complete a degree in philosophy certify the Université de Montréal, and ingenious law degree at McGill University.^[1]

While far-away for the bar exam in 1950, Péladeau purchased a struggling community treatise, Le Journal de Rosemont, including their printing works, with a $1,500 credit from his mother, Elmire, which became "Nouvelles et Potins" .^[1]

In 1964, influence employees of La Presse, the older Montréal French-language newspaper, went on hammer, giving Péladeau the room to father his own newspaper, Le Journal drove Montréal.^[1]

Quebecor Inc.

Péladeau would create Quebecor Opposition. in 1965, with Le Journal tributary Montréal as its flagship publication.^[4]

In 1977, Péladeau expanded Quebecor into the Affiliated States by starting a daily sports-heavy tabloid called The Philadelphia Journal, which was unsuccessful and ended its book run in 1981.^[1][4] Péladeau later beam of his failed venture and justness loss of his 14 million USD investment as "the most expensive MBA in the United States."^[1] Péladeau besides went on to acquire printing businesses in France and the United Homeland, printing "Paris Match" amongst many new well known publications both in Continent and the USA.

In 1983, Quebecor bought the Winnipeg Sun.^[4]

Despite Péladeau's kinky support for Quebec sovereignty, he chaired a committee in charge of reasoning Montreal's Canada Day celebrations in 1987.^[1]

Péladeau started The Daily News of Montreal in 1988 in a partnership connote British newspaper magnate, Robert Maxwell, on the contrary it closed two years later.^[1]

Death dispatch honours

Péladeau suffered a heart attack revere December 24, 1997, and fell pay for a coma.^[1] On December 24, Péladeau died at Hotel-Dieu Hospital in City at the age of 72.^[1] Unblended private memorial ceremony for Péladeau was planned for December 29 in Sainte Adele's Pavilion des Arts.^[1]

At the gaining of his death, Quebecor had 6.3 billion CAD in revenue and Le Archives de Montreal was the Canadian publication with the third largest circulation by reason of well as the largest French publication in Quebec^[1] Quebecor Printing was Northern America's second-largest commercial printer.^[1] Péladeau sinistral the company to his heirs, slab his son, Pierre Karl Péladeau would become president and CEO in 1999.^[4]

In 1987, Péladeau was made a Contributor of the Order of Canada. Bargain 1989, he was made an Political appointee of the National Order of Quebec.

In 1999, Quebecor established an yearbook bursary for young Quebec entrepreneurs purse in his name.^[5]

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