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Décor company Commonwealth Home Fashions toasts 70 profitable years

Published: 31 May 2016

The Montreal company, which designs and manufactures ready-made indoor and outdoor curtains and draperies, decorative cushions and shower curtains, has managed to adapt to changing trends, technology and market forces in a way its 1946 contemporaries did not.

“Not one of the curtain companies that existed in Canada when we started is still in business today. We outlasted them all,” president Harvey Levenson said. “And we pride ourselves on the fact we’ve never had a losing year.”

...Levenson joined the family business after graduating with an MBA from McGill in 1968. His first summer job with the company was chauffeuring Commonwealth employees from England to and from Expo 67.

Read full article: Montreal Gazette, May 30, 2015 

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