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DANISH BEER

BEERS

(5)

BERG

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OBTAINABLE AT ALL LEADING STORES

Distributors.--

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Merenstile Pank Building

Hongkong.

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THE

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THE MAN BEHIND THE WOOLWORTH 'DEAL

London, June 12,

TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1991.

WAH

The huge deal between Menary. N. M. Rothschild and Sons and the original owners of F. W. Wool- worth and Company shares mainly due to the Initiative of Mr. Philip E. Hill, chairman and direc tor of numerous industrial com panies.

Mr. Hill' name has not ap- peared in the public offer

remained sharea. He has.

of

CA- The

sentially the "man behind scenes." But that this quiet, re- tiring man of business effectively

ut through one of the romantie denia in the City is now disclosed.

moat

The original owners of F. W. Woolworth and Company sold cer tain of their interests in Messrs. N. M. Rothschild for £8,916,000, and the shares Me acquired Were offered to the publle yesterdny, being over-subscribed within 19 minutes of the opening of the Bets.

Me. Hill, who is about 50, carne to London from Wales and Boop made his mark as a man of out- standing ability.

His firat spectacular coup war in the formation of Beecham's Estates and Pills, Limited, in 1924, to acquire the business of Beccham's Pills and the Covent Garden Markets and Estates, which included the Royal Opera House And Arvers) important hotels.

Lord Derby's Estates.

The purchase price paid to Sir Thomas Beecham was £2,800,000, of which £1,850,000 was in cash.

In 1927 Mr. Hill parchased part of tho settled estales of Lord Derby for £1,717,503, and resold in Brecham's Esintes and Pills, Limited, in consideration for which that company agreed to sell to Mr. Hi its pill business.

Mr. Hill formed a now company under the title of Beecham's Pills, Limited which acquired from him the pill business, together with a controlling interest in The Vene

+ 1920+ Drug "Company"

Limited. Mr. Hill is to lay chairman of both Beecham's Pills, Limited, and of the Covent Garden Properties Company. Limited.

Mr. Hill also acquired tympia, which is now owned by Olympła, Limited, a £1,275,000 company, of Ile is

TESTR BEAUTY PALOUR which Mr. Hill is chairman.

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also chairman of Scribbans Con- pany, Limited, cake manufacturers, Taylors Cash Chemists), London, Limited, and Timothy White

1928), Limited

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