Life one year on from death
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Robert Maxwell died on Nov 05, 1991, causing disaster for his family and staff. His sons Kevin and Ian and directors Larry Trachtenberg and Robert Bunn were charged with fraud. The pensions theft affected about 33,000 people until MGN, publisher of the Daily Mirror, promised to pay 16,000 pensions. Some of the pensioners will lobby the House of Commons expecting government help. Mirror Group Newspapers has had several chairmen since Maxwell's death. Most ot the UK and European businesses have been sold.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1992
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Outsider ends meat empire's lean time
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The Vestey family, owners of the Dewhurst butchers' shops, made a loss of almost 20 million pounds sterling in 1990. After 90 years as a family business it employed an outsider as chief executive of Union International, its main holding company. Terry Robinson, 48, a Mancunian accountant, was a board director of Lonrho. After one year it is trading profitably and the debt is reduced to 200 million pounds sterling.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1993
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