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Philip Green. Sir Philip Nigel Ross Green (born 15 March 1952) is a British businessman who was the chairman of the retail company Arcadia Group. He owned the high street clothing retailers Topshop, Topman, and Miss Selfridge from 2002 to 2020. In May 2023, his net worth was estimated by the Sunday Times Rich List to be £910 million.
Lewis earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Cape Town. [1]In the 1930s, his grandfather Meyer Lewis founded the Lewis furniture retail chain, and in the 1980s, his father Stanley Lewis acquired a controlling stake in Foschini Group.
Business magnate. A business magnate, also known as an industrialist or tycoon, is a person who has achieved immense wealth through the creation or ownership of multiple lines of enterprise. The term characteristically refers to a powerful entrepreneur and investor who controls, through personal enterprise ownership or a dominant shareholding ...
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 ...
Credit Suisse was also a primary dealer and Forex counterparty of the Federal Reserve in the United States. Credit Suisse was founded in 1856 to fund the development of Switzerland's rail system. It issued loans that helped create Switzerland's electrical grid and the European rail system.
Tiffany & Company, Union Square, Manhattan, storage area with porcelain, c. 1887. Tiffany & Co. was founded in 1837 by Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B. Young, [ 15] in New York City, as a "stationery and fancy goods emporium", with the help of Charles Tiffany's father, who financed the store for only $1,000 with profits from a cotton mill. [ 16]
See Lists of video games for related lists.. This is a comprehensive index of business simulation games, sorted chronologically.Information regarding date of release, developer, platform, setting and notability is provided when available.
Standard Chartered PLC is a British multinational bank with operations in consumer, corporate and investment banking, and treasury services. Despite being headquartered in the United Kingdom, it does not conduct retail banking in the UK, and around 90% of its profits come from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East .