Ask Harry! The Harry Rosen Story

For fifty years, the name Harry Rosen has been synonymous with quality menswear in Canada. Now Harry Rosen tells his story and the story of the business that has become a national institution. Even as a child, helping his immigrant father in his "rag-and-bone" collection, Harry Rosen showed qualities that would help to make him a leading retailer insatiable curiosity and a love of deal-making. Impatient with school, and eager to get a start in life, he began work at Tip Top Tailors while still in his teens. There he absorbed knowledge, pestering workers to explain their techniques and learning to do routine jobs faster and better than the veterans. In the Design department, he pumped the sophisticated designers that he revered for tips on style, colour, and trends. All these skills were put to use when he combined his enthusiasm for salesmanship, his eye for quality, and his gift for risk-taking to open his first menswear store on Parliament Street, far from Toronto's hub of high-fashion. Although there have been crises along the way, Harry Rosen has seldom looked back. Here he lays out some of his essential rules for marketing and business success, always stressing the pivotal importance of trust andrelationship with suppliers, staff, and, above all, customers.Rosen, Harry is the author of 'Ask Harry! The Harry Rosen Story' with ISBN 9780771076459 and ISBN 0771076452.