Louis Dreyfus Company

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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"

Robert Louis-Dreyfus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Louis-Dreyfus
(1946 – 2009; died at 63 of leukemia)

(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

* Elsass is the Alsace's own and German spelling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsace

, whereas Alsace is both English and French spelling.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Alsace
* Trier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trier

(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."