Posted on 30/01/07
Montreal dodges head office bullet
John Weaver is a U.S. citizen, an old college football star from Ohio, but 14 years of living in Canada has taught him some painful Quebec history."Quebec and Montreal both lost a lot of head offices some years ago, but we're going to stay here for the future," the chief executive officer of Abitibi-Consolidated Inc., said yesterday as he announced the deal to merge his Canadian newsprint giant with its U.S. counterpart, Bowater Inc.
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