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Article: BAKER'S RISE.(Apollonia Poilane manages family bakery business, mother's design business)(Interview)
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- WWD
- Article date:
- June 9, 2003
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PARIS -- Apollonia Poilane is your typical French teenager, insofar as she sometimes lounges at home in front of the television and occasionally whoops it up in nightclubs.
But the strong-willed 19-year-old is also chief executive of her family business, the Poilane bakery founded in 1932 by her grandfather, Pierre, and made famous worldwide by her late father, Lionel, a charismatic man who perished with his wife, Ibu, in a tragic helicopter crash last November that made front-page news in France.
"My dad used to say, `One day Apollonia may take over the business,' and I would correct him: `One day, I will take over the business,"' she says during an ...