Albert "Aldo" Bensadoun, CQ is a Moroccan businessman and the founder and CEO of the Aldo Group, a retail shoe company based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Bensadoun is a sponsor of the ALDO Racing team, which has competed three times in the Dakar Rally.
Business & Education
Born in Fes in a Moroccan Jewish family, Aldo moved to the United States for his post-secondary education. He attended Cornell University before relocating to Montreal and graduating from the McGill University Desautels Faculty of Management in 1964. He worked at Yellow Shoes before founding the precursor to the ALDO Group in 1972 as a stand within the Le Château store in Montreal. Bensadoun is a recipient of the National Order of Quebec, an award for merit granted by the government of the province of Quebec, Canada.
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Aldo comes from the Latin altus and means "the tall one."
Aldo may refer to:
People
The Planet of the Apes franchise features many characters that appear in one or more works.
Main characters
Caesar
Original films
Milo, better known as Caesar, is a fictional character in the Planet of the Apes franchise. He is named after Julius Caesar.
The character of Caesar has had major participation in original film series and the reboot film series.
In Escape from the Planet of the Apes
He is the son of talking chimpanzees Cornelius and Zira. Originally named Milo after Dr. Milo, who travelled back in time with Cornelius and Zira to the Earth of Taylor's era, he was reared by his human foster father Armando, a traveling circus owner who gave Cornelius and Zira sanctuary when Zira went into labor in the final act of Escape from the Planet of the Apes. Before departing, Zira switched the infant Milo with a young chimpanzee recently born to Armando's primitive chimpanzee, Heloise. Heloise's baby was killed, along with Zira, by the human Dr. Otto Hasslein. After Cornelius kills Hasslein, he is shot by a Marine Corps sniper. Milo speaks his first word, "Mama", at the very end of the film. His false identity secure, Milo grew up as a mute acrobat.
The ALDO Group (corporately styled "ALDO") is a private Canadian corporation that owns and operates a worldwide chain of shoe and accessory stores. The company was founded by Aldo Bensadoun in Montreal, Quebec, in 1972, where its corporate headquarters remain today. It has grown to become a worldwide corporation, with nearly 2,000 stores under three retail banners: ALDO, Call It Spring/Spring and GLOBO. Stores in Canada, the US, the U.K., and Ireland are owned by the Group, while international stores are franchised. The company once operated the now closed or rebranded banners Little Burgundy (which it sold to Genesco), Simard & Voyer, Christian Shoes, Access, Pegabo, Transit, Stoneridge, Locale, Feetfirst and FIRST (which was the American version of Feetfirst).