When Dov Cries

Report on Business magazine gets inside American Apparel CEO Dov Charney's head

Interview opportunities from the November issue of Report on Business magazine

TORONTO, Oct. 27 /CNW/ - Dov Charney is notoriously louche, looks-obsessed and, above all, loud-mouthed. The scrappy kid from Montreal is a believer in his own rather unique vision. As the garment trade's proto-hipster hustler, the American Apparel founder and chief executive has fused his energetic persona to his struggling brand. He is untamable and brutally frank about everything that defines him. But there's another side to Charney—one that shows a brilliant creative force. His anti-sweatshop and pro-labour practices at American Apparel's Los Angeles factory have made him an unlikely hero in a politically charged battle to legitimize undocumented workers in the United States.

Writer Maryam Sanati investigates why the final nail in American Apparel's coffin might not be its distracted genius founder after all. Read it in the November issue of Report on Business magazine, available Friday, October 29.

Also in this issue:

"We Will Make Pain, and They Will Suffer" - Bell, Rogers and Telus, listen up: Telecom titan Naguib Sawiris is talking to you. The Egyptian billionaire is the money behind upstart Wind Mobile. Sawiris has cut deals in North Korea, Pakistan and Iraq. So when he decided to back Wind here in Canada, he thought it would be easy money. He didn't count on the Big Three. Report on Business reporter Iain Marlow looks at why they might have messed with the wrong billionaire.

Last Man Skating - What's more Canadian than beer and hockey? Answer: the Molson family, which has a long history in both. Geoff Molson is the last member of his clan at the 224-year-old family brewery. He's also the guy charged with saving the Montreal Canadiens.

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