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Quiksilver founder to take non-executive role
2014-10-15 14:54:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Bob McKnight, co-founder and former CEO of surf-led fashion business Quiksilver, is to retire as chairman and take up a non-executive role with the company.
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NetJets founder sells helicopter leasing company he co-founded
2014-10-14 16:17:49| Airlines - Topix.net
He's the clever entrepreneur who started the private jet fractional share company NetJets in the 1980s and sold it to Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway in 1998 for $725 million. About four years ago, Santulli assembled a group of former NetJets executives and raised $500 million to buy a fleet of helicopters and lease them out to oil and gas drillers and emergency services providers.
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VIDEO: Twitter founder talks 'evolving' media
2014-10-08 09:01:39| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
BBC Click talks to Twitter co-founder Biz Stone about the growth of social media.
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350.org founder Bill McKibben receives Alternative Nobel award
2014-09-26 07:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Renowned US environmentalist Bill McKibben will be one of the recipients of this years Right Livelihood Awards, known as the Alternative Nobel, it has been announced. McKibben is the founder of the campaign group 350.org, which is lobbying around the world to build an international movement to stop climate change. The author and journalist is widely credited with popularising fossil fuel divestment, after communicating the concept in his 2012 Rolling Stone article Global Warmings Terrifying...
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Murphy Oil founder Polly Winter, 92, dies
2014-09-23 11:57:41| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Oil had just been discovered in the small southern Arkansas town of El Dorado, and the population was booming when Polly Keller Winter was born in 1922 to Charles Murphy Sr. and Bertie Wilson Murphy. Subscribers must LOG-IN to read this full story.
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