Corporate raider Brierley exits Coats

Veteran corporate raider Sir Ron Brierley, who once owned large stakes in supermarket retailer Woolworths and gas company AGL and headed the third-largest company on the Australian Securities Exchange in…

Mercantile challenge

Sir Ron Brierleys Mercantile Investment Company may well be heading for second time unlucky in its pursuit of Adelaide Managed Funds Asset Backed Yield Trust. Less than 24 hours after…

Former GPG boys in full tilt reprise

It almost sounds like the script from The Blues Brothers. Afterall, the former GPG director and guitarist Gary Weiss did admit at his farewell last year that we could be…

Knight raid

Veteran sharemarket raider Sir Ron Brierley has opportunely bobbed up as a substantial shareholder in Copper Strike - presently under siege from another 1980s figure, Geoff Lord.Brierleys investment vehicle, Sib-…

Fitting reflection by GPGs now chairman

To survive the cut-and-thrust of corporate life, it helps to have a philosophical approach to the botched hopes and carnage that are part and parcel of the big game.So we…

Changing of the Guinness guard

The fleeing of the guard at the investment fund Guinness Peat Group, formerly headed by Sir Ron Brierley, was all but completed yesterday when the former New Zealand union leader…

Brierleys right hand man quits raider

An era is ending at the once-feared corporate raider Guinness Peat Group with the departure of Gary Weiss, who was the right-hand man to the companys driving force, Sir Ron…

Farewell Sir Ron last of the corporate raiders

Farewell, Sir Ron, last of tFor decades, it was almost mandatory to preface any mention of his name with feared corporate raider. First at Brierley Investments, then Industrial Equity and…

AMP swallows GIO as GPG holds its cards

AMP shares surged to a four- month high yesterday after the NSW Supreme Court approved the companys mop-up bid of GIOs minority shareholders.The approval was the final hurdle for the…

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