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...Lonrho was once a FTSE100 conglomerate under the leadership of Tiny Rowland, chief executive for 30 years until 1993....
...Last year, following a management shake up, Geoffrey White, chief executive, tried to put the group’s past behind it. He promised investors a “more grown up” company that would start delivering....
...Five years later Tiny Rowland, the ruthless maverick who spent 30 years building Lonrho, was thrown out. By 2000 his creation had been split up....
...Geoffrey White spends three weeks of every month jetting across sub-Saharan Africa to check investments ranging from nectarine farms in Zimbabwe to a luxury hotel in the Democratic Republic of Congo....
...Geoffrey Rowland, the Bailiff who is the first civil officer in the Bailiwick of Guernsey, which includes Alderney, Sark, Herm and several other small islands, says: “With respectability comes confidence...
...Designer Geoffrey Baxter joined the company in 1954 and created the popular Textured range in 1967....
...Tiny Rowland, Mohamed Fayed and Richard Branson have been among his previous targets. Nor does he leave his own politics - significantly to the right of the chancellor’s - at the door....
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