Word: goldsmith
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...German investment has increased by 138%, to $1.9 billion; the Swedes have tripled their investment, and the French have raised theirs by almost 470%. Operating through businesses they control or family investment companies, such influential individuals as France's Baron Guy de Rothschild, Britain's Sir Jimmy Goldsmith and the Agnellis of Italy have all acquired seasoned American businesses...
Investors like Jimmy Goldsmith, the banker-owner of the French magazine L'Express, helped Frost meet his $2.5 million in production costs. Frost will retain about half of all profits...
...Goldsmith founded Caven-ham Ltd. which, through canny acquisitions, has become Europe's third largest (after Unilever and Nestlé) food processor. Extending his empire, he then purchased Grand Union, the U.S. supermarket chain. Two years ago, he became chairman of Slater, Walker Securities Ltd. when his friend Jim Slater, because of some freewheeling deals in the Far East, was forced to resign-driving one of the hottest investment companies of the 1960s to near collapse...
...Goldsmith rather enjoys some of the criticism leveled against him; for example, that he is a "meteor" who does not play by the rules of the financial community. "If it's too easy to be a meteor, there wouldn't be any natural selection," he says. "Obstacles have to be constantly put there. If I got to the top I'd have every intention of putting the obstacles there for the fellows behind." As for his dual households, he says: "Nobody can accuse me of humbug...
Some observers believe that Goldsmith wants to emulate Rupert Murdoch and create a publishing empire in the U.S. Jimmy denies it. "I'm not American, and I think people must wage war in their own country; one stands and fights where one is." That means war on two fronts since Goldsmith, whose mother was French, has dual nationality. So far, of course, he is only positioning himself for the battle...