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LONDON — British high street tycoon Sir Ralph Halpern, who helped transform the country’s retail industry in the booming ’80s and ’90s, died Aug. 10 at age 83.
He was instrumental in the founding of Topshop in the mid-’60s and chief executive officer of the Burton Group from the late ’70s to early ’90s, which owned Miss Selfridge, Dorothy Perkins, Wallis and department stores Debenhams and Harvey Nichols.
Halpern was born in…
