Share this Story: 'Look for the sunshine:' Linamar founder Frank Hasenfratz was the ultimate optimist'Look for the sunshine:' Linamar founder Frank Hasenfratz was the ultimate optimist Hasenfratz, with less than $5 to his name, went on to found Linamar Corp., now a global auto-parts giant with 26,000 employees Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick filesArticle content At a train station in Montreal during the late 1950s, Frank Hasenfratz, then a young, German-speaking Hungarian immigrant, stretched out on a bench and took stock of his life. Article content For one thing, the family’s farm back in Hungary had been confiscated. Try refreshing your browser, or 'Look for the sunshine:' Linamar founder Frank Hasenfratz was the ultimate optimist Back to video He “escaped” the legion soon after and caught a freighter for Canada, where he had heard there might be a future for him. Article content “We were both exposed to a lot of hardship early on in life,” Stronach said of Hasenfratz. Today, the company Frank Hasenfratz founded operates in 17 countries, has 60 factories, a dozen research and development centres and does billions in revenues annually.

Source: National Post January 10, 2022 23:47 UTC