PFE's assets were merged into Seagram's existing film studio, Universal Pictures, after Seagram was dissatisfied with offers to buy the studio ( ironically, one of the bidders for PolyGram was Canal + Group, owned by Vivendi, which would later take over Seagram ).

Born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Allan Bronfman and the nephew of Samuel Bronfman, founder of Seagram, he founded ( with his brother, Peter Bronfman ) Edper Enterprises ( now called Brookfield Asset Management ), a conglomerate company which once had an estimated CAD $ 100 billion in assets under management.

Horses owned by Windfields Farm have won the Queen's Plate eleven times, but the most successful was the stable owned by Joseph E. Seagram, a prominent distiller from Waterloo, Ontario.

In the provinces of Canada, some municipalities offer financial encouragement for heritage development such as, the City of Waterloo who waived the development charges for the Seagram Lofts that have been estimated to be around $ 700, 000.

This revelation, coupled with deep troubles with his marriage and the President's agreement to leaking word of the Sicilian Project to the Soviets, eventually cause Dr. Seagram to have a nervous breakdown from which he never recovers.

However, it is not correct to say, as is often done, that Samuel Bronfman founded Seagram, since the Seagram name itself pre-dated the company he founded.

Founded in 1995 as Rising Tide Records, the label would ultimately begin to thrive the following year when its name was changed to Universal Records to complement the branding overhaul of the Universal Studios structure since MCA Inc. was purchased from Matsushita Electric by The Seagram Company Ltd ..

Warwick has been connected romantically with Philadelphia Eagles great Timmy Brown, French singer-songwriter Sacha Distel, actor Philip Michael Thomas ( Miami Vice ), Seagram heir and CEO Edgar Bronfman, Jr., and Las Vegas restaurateur and actor Gianni Russo ( The Godfather ).

However, they concluded that the area simply couldn't be developed properly, " it just wasn ’ t the right terrain for a world-class resort .” Franz Wilhelmsen, a local businessman who had married into the Seagram family, had already come to the same conclusions when he had been scouting areas for a new ski resort.

( The Seagram Tower, now the Konica Minolta Tower, had been constructed in 1962 with a view from the south side ).

The Decca label is currently in use by Universal Music Group worldwide ; this is possible because Universal Studios ( which officially dropped the MCA name after the Seagram buyout in 1997 ) acquired PolyGram, British Decca's parent company in 1998, thus consolidating Decca trademark ownership.

In December 1998, PolyGram was acquired by Seagram, and Motown was absorbed into the Universal Music Group.

In 1995, Seagram Company Ltd. acquired 80 % of MCA from Panasonic and the following year the new owners dropped the MCA name ; the company became Universal Studios, Inc. and its music division, MCA Music Entertainment Group, was renamed Universal Music Group.

In 1998, Seagram acquired PolyGram from Philips and merged it with its music holdings.

In 1995, Seagram Company Ltd. acquired 80 % of MCA.

In 1998 Seagram acquired PolyGram ( owner of British Decca ) from Philips and merged it with its music holdings.

In 1980, Sun acquired the U. S. oil and gas properties of Texas Pacific Oil Company, Inc., a subsidiary of The Seagram Company, Ltd., for US $ 2. 3 billion — the second largest acquisition in U. S. history to that date.

In 1928, a few years after the death of Joseph E. Seagram ( 1919 ), the Distillers Corporation acquired Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, and took over the Seagram name.

Although Seagram acquired a 32. 2 % stake in Conoco, DuPont was brought in as a white knight by the oil company and entered the bidding war.

In 1995, MCA was acquired by Seagram Company Ltd. and operated under the name Universal Studios.

Seagram eventually merged PFE into Universal Studios ( which acquired in 1995 after they merged with MCA )

The same time around, Universal was acquired by Joseph A. Seagram and Sons and later acquired the USA Networks and Multimedia Entertainment.

Worldwide distribution rights to Elton John's music was consolidated when MCA Records ' then-parent Seagram acquired PolyGram, the owner of Island, Mercury, and A & M, in 1998.

In the 1980s, Tropicana made history by being the first company to be acquired by The Seagram Company, Ltd ..

Seagram Beverage Group acquired Dole Food Company ’ s global juice business in 1995, including the Dole brands in North America, and Dole, Fruvita, Looza and Juice Bowl juices and nectars in Europe.

The Sazerac Company, a New Orleans-based producer and importer and the parent company of five distilleries, acquired Eagle Rare from Seagram in March 1989.

Coincidentally, the race was won by a horse named Seagram.

The beverage company Joseph Seagram and Sons had recently completed their new building on Park Avenue, designed by architects Mies Van der Rohe and Philip Johnson.

Ironically, Seagram had purchased Motown ’ s former parent MCA in 1995, as such Motown was in effect reunited with many of its MCA corporate siblings ( Seagram had, in fact, hoped to build a media empire around Universal, and started by purchasing PolyGram ).

The city is home to Dawson College, Quebec's largest CEGEP, and Marianopolis College ; Westmount High School with its sister elementary school Westmount Park School ; Place Alexis Nihon and office towers ; some of the most prestigious private schools in Quebec, including Miss Edgar's and Miss Cramp's School, Selwyn House School, Villa Sainte-Marcelline and The Study ; and Westmount Square residential towers and shopping complex, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and funded largely by Westmount resident Samuel Bronfman, the founder of the Seagram liquor empire.

In 1998, PolyGram was purchased by Seagram and absorbed into its Universal Music Group.

The Seagram Building, the company's American headquarters office tower at 375 Park Avenue in New York City, was designed by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe with Philip Johnson.

On April 6, 1995, after being approached by Edgar Bronfman, Jr., DuPont announced a deal whereby the company would buy back its shares from the Seagram company for the amount of $ 9 billion.

In the early 1950s, the Ontario Jockey Club, led by directors E. P. Taylor, George C. Hendrie and J. E. Frowde Seagram, undertook an acquisition and consolidation program for southern Ontario racing.

In late 1998, PolyGram was bought by Seagram, which then absorbed the company into its Universal Music Group unit.

The company was then purchased by Canadian drinks and media company Seagram in 1977.

Sabra was developed and introduced in 1963 by Edgar Bronfman, Sr., the head of Seagram, to be an identifiably Israeli liqueur.

The Seagram Building's plaza was also the site of a landmark planning study by William H. Whyte, the American sociologist.

Originally intended to be the site of an office tower designed by Mies van der Rohe in the manner of the Seagram Building NYC, that scheme was aborted following one of the great architectural and planning show-downs of the 1970s.

As with the Seagram Building, and a number of Mies's subsequent projects, Toronto-Dominion Centre follows the theme of the darkly coloured, rigidly ordered, steel and glass edifice set in an open plaza, itself surrounded by a dense and erratic, pre-existing urban fabric.

The Bronfman family gained its fortunes through the Seagram Company, an alcohol distilling company, but Edgar Jr. (" Efer " to friends ) has gained his reputation by expanding and later divesting ownership of the Seagram Company, as well as for pursuing more creative activities as a Broadway and film producer and songwriter.