Carload Ritchie: The Life and Times of Harold F. Ritchie, Worlds Greatest Salesman Gillmor Don
Carload Ritchie: The Life and Times of Harold F. Ritchie, Worlds Greatest Salesman Gillmor Don The unbelievable birth of the pharmaceutical industryWhen Harold "Carload" Ritchie died in 1933, Time…
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Carload Ritchie: The Life and Times of Harold F. Ritchie, Worlds Greatest Salesman Gillmor Don
The unbelievable birth of the pharmaceutical industryWhen Harold "Carload" Ritchie died in 1933, Time magazine's obituary noted that "he had good claim to the proud title of 'World's Greatest Salesman.'" He was one of the richest men in Canada, and owned the largest sales network in the world. He wasn't part of the Canadian establishment, though the companies he came to own were more profitable than most of the country's banks. Yet little is known about him.
Through Harold's enigmatic life, we glimpse both the country in the first decades of the twentieth century, and the entertaining birth of the pharmaceutical He was born on Manitoulin Island, and in many ways, remaining on an island of his own making.