Daryl Katz did get rich after purchasing the Canadian rights of a drugstore chain called Medicine Shoppe for $300,000 in 1991. The next year he founded Katz Group of Companies by opening the first Medicine Shoppe store in Canada. The company’s revenue grew after he bought the Rexall drugstore chainRead more
Daryl Katz did get rich after purchasing the Canadian rights of a drugstore chain called Medicine Shoppe for $300,000 in 1991. The next year he founded Katz Group of Companies by opening the first Medicine Shoppe store in Canada. The company’s revenue grew after he bought the Rexall drugstore chain in 1996.
At the time of purchase, Rexall was a small business with just a few stores in its drugstore chain. Katz started opening new stores of both Medicine Shoppe and Rexall and as of 1998, over 30 Medicine Shoppe & 80 Rexall stores were part of the Katz Group.
Daryl kept expanding the company as years passed by. He bought another drugstore chain 143-Store Pharma Plus for a whopping $100 million from Oshawa Group. This was Katz’s first biggest deal at that time. After seeing a lot of growth in the Canadian market, Katz eyed the U.S market & purchased U.S based Snyders drug store chain in 1999.
Daryl Katz made most of his wealth by buying drugstore chains during his early foray into the business during the 1990s. For example, the Medicine Shoppe chain which he bought for $300,000 in 1991 later brought him $1.2 Billion in 2012 when he sold it to McKesson Corporation. This is how Daryl Katz got rich in a period of 29 years. His current net worth is $3.5 Billion (12th richest person in Canada).
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In a sense, it's both. Surrealism is like the cinema in that way; sometimes you're happy just to be with your own thoughts or watching something beautiful on the screen without caring about what happens next and when I want my work to feel dreamlike, those are always good feelings. [adinserter blockRead more
In a sense, it‘s both. Surrealism is like the cinema in that way; sometimes you‘re happy just to be with your own thoughts or watching something beautiful on the screen without caring about what happens next and when I want my work to feel dreamlike, those are always good feelings.
The word surrealist is used so loosely these days and I‘m not sure many people appreciate the origin of it. The word comes from a French playwright named Alfred Jarry who wrote something called “The Supermale“ in 1896, which is where he first used the term surrealist to describe his characters. It‘s really quite funny; it‘s a farce in which the characters act like they‘re living in their own dreams, no matter how absurd things get.
It was really quite revolutionary for its time and it‘s what ultimately led to the Dadaists of Europe as well as Surrealism proper.
The word surreal can either be used in a positive or negative way. It‘s the same as a dream, which can be either good or bad and everything in between. I think it really depends on how people choose to use it.
I think it‘s a beautiful word, sounding like something that has been plucked from the sky. A surrealist is someone who wants to create art with as much truthfulness as they can muster and in doing so, immerse themselves in their own dreams.
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