Manitoba business people get Hall of Fame
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JUNIOR Achievement Manitoba didn’t just put on a successful inaugural dinner for its Manitoba Business Hall of Fame on Thursday — it even found a home for its first six inductees.
Mariette Mulaire, president and CEO World Trade Centre Winnipeg, said when it moves into a new building in the next year or so, it will allocate some prime real estate to the MBHOF.
“We want to bring together business people who are interested in expanding, exporting and showing off their products into one place,” she said.
“We want to showcase our pioneers. As the years go by, more (inductees) will be added and the Hall of Fame will show how diverse we are and how we have people who have had serious success.”
The first six inductees into the Hall of Fame include two members of Winnipeg’s Richardson family — James Armstrong Sr. and Muriel — media mogul Izzy Asper, politician/newspaper owner Sir Clifford Sifton, entrepreneur/arts patron Albert Cohen and whisky baron Samuel Bronfman.
Greg Leipsic, president and CEO of JAM, said since the WTC was suggested to him as a site a few months ago, he thought it would be “perfect.”
Just what form the Hall of Fame might take remains to be determined, but Leipsic said he’d like to see visitors be able to watch the short vignettes that were produced about each inductee and shown on Thursday.
He said 375 people attended the sold-out event and he exceeded the level of sponsorship he had looked for.
Next year’s dinner is in the works, with plans to induct another three to five local business legends.
WTC Winnipeg has a mandate to aid trade relationships around the world on behalf of Manitoba businesses.
geoff.kirbyson@freepress.mb.ca