Richard Baker
speaker
1,143 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 7 Jul
Richard Baker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yes.
How do I do that?
Because I...
I get off my ass.
I meet people.
I talk to people.
I'm inquisitive.
I learn.
And each of these companies I worked on for years and thought about it, put the pieces together.
And Hudson Bay was really poorly operated in Canada.
And the Lord & Taylor team was strong.
So I was able to buy the Hudson Bay company and merge it.
with the Lord & Taylor Company, which was crazy, merging a U.S.
department store chain with a Canadian department store chain.
OK, I bought Hudson Bay and closed on July 19th, 2000 and 2008, right before the great financial crisis.
And I bought the company for one point, approximately one point two percent.
billion canadian which was at par at the moment at that moment and the company would have been bankrupt three months later with the pandemic but because we had the support of lord and taylor to help it get through that period we were able to get through the financial crisis what happened was i took this company that they were running atrociously i broke it up into pieces i got great teams to run the the bay department store
the Hudson Bay department store, the Zellers, the fields and the different operating companies that they had.
When I bought the Hudson Bay company, they had over $7 billion in sales and 72,000 employees.
So on July 19th, I had created a new company called the Hudson Bay Trading Company, which was a holding company that now owned Lord & Taylor and the Hudson Bay company.
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