Career
With help from a family friend and connections in the cloth manufacturing business, he was able to open Harry Rosen Inc., on February 4, 1954 in Cabbagetown, Toronto, with his brother Lou.
In 1961, the store moved to Toronto's downtown core on Richmond Street. That year Stann Burkhoff, an advertising executive, came in to shop. Rosen and Burkhoff became friends and Burkhoff arranged to do some ads for the store in exchange for two suits - one for him and one for his art director. Together, they developed the 'Ask Harry' campaign. These ads ran in Canada's national newspaper, The Globe and Mail. It was so successful that people from across the country began coming to Harry Rosen.
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