His overhaul of the 60-year-old company started by his grandfather paid dividends this week with an initial public offering. Reiss skipped the writing in the end, sticking around to transform Canada Goose Holdings into one of the most valuable luxury brands in the world, selling $900 down coats to everyone from park rangers to Drake. вЂњI wanted to be a short-story writer I wanted to write fiction.вЂќ вЂњThe last thing I ever thought I would do was work for my parents in the family business,вЂќ Reiss said in an interview last year. He was an English literature graduate from the University of Toronto, looking for a few bucks to finance his travel plans. Retrieved 9 April 2017.Dani Reiss had no intention of running a billion-dollar clothing empire when he joined his dadвЂ™s shop making winter parkas 20 years ago.

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David's eldest daughter Ali was involved in the business for many years before leaving in her 30s to concentrate on her children. Reiss's son is a director at HSBC, and his daughter Debra worked for the chain in Los Angeles until her death from a long-term illness in 2015.

Reiss is married to Rosemary Reiss they have three children: Ali, Debbie and Darren, and lives in Hampstead, London. In April 2016, a majority stake was sold to the American private equity firm Warburg Pincus for ВЈ230 million. Additional stores opened in Short Hills, New Jersey and Boca Raton, Florida. The debut in New York City proved a success, recouping the money Reiss invested in just one year, which made Reiss continue pursuing his international plans and in 2007 the retailer boasted eight more US stores, including stores in Boston, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. Reiss has a target to open 260 stores around the world, including 100 franchise stores (the company has already signed a deal for 40 in Europe, the Far East and the Middle East), and 50 stand-alone stores in Europe and the United States. Today Reiss is the last big owner-founder entrepreneur left in British retail. Career Дavid took over his father's gentlemen's outfitters on the corner of Bishopsgate and Petticoat Lane in the City of London, in 1971, when he was in his 20s. His family were members of the orthodox Raleigh Close (Hendon United Synagogue). His father, Joshua Reiss, operated a store in Bishopsgate that was founded by his uncle, Samuel Reiss (born 1903) who was an immigrant from a south-eastern Polish shtetl in RadomyЕ›l Wielki. David Anthony Reiss was born to a Jewish family in May 1943.

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