Succession
With his father's death in 1924, Garfield Weston became president of George Weston Limited. Four years later, he took the company public and soon acquired controlling interest in Brantford, Ontario, biscuit and confectionery company William Paterson Limited. Weston next entered the American market, setting-up a small Weston's English Quality Biscuits plant near Boston, Massachusetts. But the U.S. venture ended in near disaster after an apparent sabotage campaign by an insider secretly working for the competition.
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