U.K. Dynasty Behind Primark Put to Test After Sales Dive to Zero
- Analysts question retailer’s strategy of shunning online sales
- Weston family controls Selfridges, Loblaw and Fortnum & Mason
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In the unforgiving game of retailing, the Weston family have long proved nimble players.
Over the better part of a century, they turned a Canadian bakery into a transatlantic empire that sells everything from groceries to $1,600 Gucci handbags. Along the way they amassed one of the world’s biggest fortunes and befriended another influential clan -- the British royal family.