标题: Louis Dreyfus Company [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 11-7-2016 18:29 标题: Louis Dreyfus Company Sarah McFarlane, Katherine Dunn and Maarten Van Tartwijk, Commodities Crunch Muddles Family Feud at Top of Louis Dreyfus; Years of family bouts and executive turnover have taken a toll on the firm. Wall Street Journal, Nov 4, 2016. http://www.wsj.com/articles/fami ... in-court-1478186012
Excerpt in the window of print: 10% Louis Dreyfus's share of the world agricultural-products markets may be as high as this
Note:
(a) Louis Dreyfus chairman Margarita Louis-Dreyfus "was raised as an orphan in Soviet Russia. Ms Louis-Dreyfus's swift rise in the company following the death of her husband, Robert, in 2009"
(b) "Louis Dreyfus was founded in 1851 by Léopold Louis-Dreyfus, a trader who sold French wheat into Switzerland."
(i) Louis Dreyfus Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Dreyfus_Company
(is one of the "ABCD" quartet of companies - alongside Archer Daniels Midland, Bunge and Cargill - that dominates world agricultural commodity trading)
(ii) Leopold (given name) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_(given_name)
(iii)
(A) Dreyfuss https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfuss
(B) Real Origin of 'Dreyfus;' A surname that is common in France, Germany and Switzerland. Los Angeles Herald, Sept 10, 1899 (reproduced by California Newspaper Digital Collection, Univ California Riverside). http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH18990910.2.190
, which was reproduced in
The Genealogical Magazine; A Journal of family history, heraldry, and pedigrees. Vol III. London : Elliot Stock, 1900, at page 229 https://books.google.com/books?i ... e&q&f=false
(c) "In 2006, Robert Louis-Dreyfus took over as family scion, majority shareholder and chairman. Before he died from complications related to cancer, he set up a Lichtenstein-based trust named Akira, which held his controlling share of the family holding company that controls a majority stake in Louis Dreyfus. Akira in turn was overseen by a family foundation with three so-called protectors, who could decide whether to distribute income. Mr Louis-Dreyfus made his wife one of those protectors."