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Gaétan Frigon 

 

Executive Chairman

gfrigon@publipage.com

Gaétan Frigon, Executive Chairman at Publipage Inc., graduated from the University of Ottawa in 1961. Mr. Frigon has pursued a career primarily in the retail sector, first with Eaton’s, Canada’s leading retailer at the time, and then with other major organizations involved in franchising, food retailing and publishing. In 1983 and 1987, Mr. Frigon won the Mercure for Marketing, awarded by the Quebec Chamber of Commerce. During the same period, he developed a unique and innovative concept to obtain corporate visibility – the Gala Metrostar (now known as Gala Artis), which is the Quebec television broadcasting equivalent of the People’s Choice Awards.

In the early 1990s, Mr. Frigon drew on his vast experience to launch his own business ventures. He developed several consumer-oriented products for sale in supermarkets and convenience stores. One of those concepts was the “Fiches cuisine Bon Appétit,” a line of recipe cards issued periodically that broke all sales records for continuity collections.

In 1998, Mr. Frigon was appointed the President and CEO of the Société des alcools du Québec (the Quebec liquor board), a government-owned corporation responsible for purchasing, importing, warehousing, distributing and retailing all wine and spirit products in Quebec. More recently, Mr. Frigon was Chairman of the Board, President and CEO of Loto-Québec, another government-owned corporation responsible for gaming and gambling (casinos, lotteries, etc.) in Quebec. In 2001, Mr. Frigon was named Personality of the Year by the Association Marketing de Montréal, the local branch of the American Marketing Association. In 2002, he was awarded the Prix Dimension by the Ordre des administrateurs agréés du Québec (the order of chartered administrators in Quebec). In 2004, Mr Frigon successfully managed the financial restructuring of Groupe San Francisco, an important retail company operating in Quebec and Ontario. Mr. Frigon is the co-founder of Publipage, with his partner Hélène Héroux. He has been the Executive Chairman since 1998.