Article: Vic De Zen's Royal exit will herald change.

Byline: Angie DeRosa

For building products giant Royal Group Technologies Ltd., the end of 2003 means colossal changes, including the retirement of Vic De Zen, its iconoclastic founder, and a repositioning of its strategy.

It's a highly significant transformation for the profile extruder, as the De Zen name fades from day-to-day involvement and a realigned management team takes the helm.

Officials even explored a possible sale, but they now say that process has ended.

"As far as I'm concerned, that has been abandoned,'' President Doug Dunsmuir told analysts and shareholders during the firm's Nov. 19 conference call announcing ...

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