© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Loretta Rogers appears to be like out of her automotive window after attending the funeral for her late husband Ted Rogers, President and CEO of Rogers Communications, in Toronto December 9, 2008. REUTERS/Mark Blinch/File Photograph
(Reuters) – Rogers (NYSE:) Communications Inc’s Loretta Rogers who served as a company director for over fifty years and was the corporate’s founding president and CEO died on Saturday on the age of 83.
Chairman Edward Rogers, the one son of the corporate’s late founder Ted Rogers, stated, the household was profoundly saddened by their mom’s passing.
“She lived a full and vibrant life and we, like all those that knew her, will deeply miss her management and steerage,” Edward Rogers stated.
“A wonderful soul left us as we speak. She was a one in every of a form spirit who unfold love like wildfire”, daughter Martha Rogers stated https://twitter.com/MarthaLRogers/standing/1535689152091639814?s=20&t=bh2jxJMfpDh_MbNJDhcgMw on Twitter (NYSE:).
Loretta Rogers served as a director of Rogers Communications since 1964 and was a member of the Advisory Committee of the Rogers Management Belief.
Rogers Communications final week requested a tribunal to scrap Canada competitors bureau’s rejection to its C$20 billion ($15.65 billion) buy of Shaw Communications (NYSE:) Inc, arguing the merger would create extra competitors relatively than stifle it.
The Rogers household was in a dispute when Edward Rogers tried to drop Joe Natale as CEO in September final yr. Loretta Rogers had stated she helps Joe Natale as CEO and his administration workforce.
The Canadian wi-fi big on January appointed Tony Staffieri as president and chief govt officer from interim CEO, following a months-long boardroom battle on who ought to lead the corporate.
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