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...creation of Cenix was not only a big switch for Canadian-born Echeverri, who loved the world of pure science. It also marks a shift for the venerable Max Planck Institute, which in Dresden is charting a new course to make Germany a major player in biotech research and development. Cenix is steaming in the right direction. "We're part of the wave of development that happened when the government and investment community made the push into biotech," says Echeverri, 35, his dark eyes darting to his cell phone to check text messages. "This year we're going to make...
Stroll and Chou intend to change that by turning Michael Kors into a $1 billion brand within a decade and taking the company public along the way. It's an ambitious plan to say the least, but they've done this kind of thing before. Canadian-born Stroll and Hong Kong--based Chou were the masterminds behind Ralph Lauren's international licensing deals throughout Europe in the 1980s. In the '90s, they put their money and Seventh Avenue experience behind a novice designer named Tommy Hilfiger. They took Hilfiger from a $25 million jeans business to a $1.8 billion global...
DIED. GISELE MACKENZIE, 76, Canadian-born singer and 1950s TV star; of colon cancer; in Burbank, Calif. The daughter of a Winnipeg doctor, she was a regular on Your Hit Parade, where she and such co-stars as Snooky Lanson and Dorothy Collins would perform the top seven songs of each week. She was later a regular on The Sid Caesar Show and starred in her own short-lived variety series...
...DIED. HUME CRONYN, 91, legendary actor of American stage and screen; in Fairfield, Connecticut. The Canadian-born star got his big break on Broadway in 1935 in the Three Men on a Horse, and made his film debut in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt in 1943. Cronyn and his wife and longtime stage partner, Jessica Tandy, were inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 1979, and each won a Tony for special lifetime theatrical achievement in 1994; Tandy died later that year. Cronyn once said he found film easier than the stage, but less satisfying: "My heart...
Daniel Ackler tasted paradise for the first time on a trip to Italy. Now, he's brought a little bite of heaven to Hong Kong, his home for 13 years. The Canadian-born trader studied the art of making authentic gelato under an Italian master before opening his first gelateria, XTC On Ice, a year ago in Hong Kong's trendy SoHo district. Since then, Ackler's gelati have gained a reputation as the best Italian ices in Asia. His mandarin-hued outlet on Cochrane Street, tel: (852) 2541 0500, is thronged even on chilly afternoons with bankers on break...