Kroum Pindoff
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Kroum Pindoff (Bulgarian: Крум Пиндов) is a Bulgarian Canadian bussinessman[1] born in the village of Embore, Macedonia, Greece and raised in the city of Varna, Bulgaria. [1] [2]. Pindoff participated in the First World war as part of the Bulgarian army, and their allies the Germans. Later when Bulgaria joined the Allies, he fought against the German army. [3] He and Eva, his German-born wife, both survivors of the horrors of war, arrived in Canada in 1955 as immigrants with one single purpose in life: to make enough money to aid innocent victims of war. .
Forming a company called Pindoff Record Sales in 1960, he began selling records on consignment to a variety of stores in Toronto. By 1970, Eva became the Founding President of Music World, a company formed to market a variety of music products. Today Music World consists of 110 outlets Canada-wide with over 1,000 employees. In the pink of life, these proud Canadians are capitalizing on the chance of a lifetime to help the innocent victimized by the ravages of war. The couple, married 50 years in the year 2000, recently pledged five million dollars to the Red Cross to help landmine victims become survivors. As philanthropists, both Kroum and Eva paid to send more than 20,000 food parcels to senior citizens in Bulgaria following the implosion of the Eastern Bloc in 1991. The Pindoffs recently built a home for 100 children in Orahavica, Gasinci, Croatia. They visit the orphanage yearly and consider the children living there as part of their extended family. This recent view of the Pindoffs reveals some of the ongoing Pindoff projects, including the development of homes for the aged in Bosnia.