alt obits guy 3,371 Posted July 21, 2018 Don McCarthy, the former Executive Chairman of the House of Fraser and a philanthropist, has died. He was 63. https://www.drapersonline.com/news/obituary-retail-veteran-don-mccarthy-has-died/7031337.article 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
markb4 892 Posted July 21, 2018 3 hours ago, drol said: Marchionne's death is imminent. EDIT: Lung cancer and irreversible coma. Here is an English language article about him resigning as CEO due to complications from surgery: https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/21/news/companies/sergio-marchionne-fiat-chrysler-stepping-down/index.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted July 23, 2018 Creed Lamar Ford III, the co-founder of the Carino's Italian restaurant chain and the former COO of Brinker International, parent company of Chili’s, Romano’s Macaroni Grill, On The Border and others, has died. He was 66. https://www.statesman.com/news/local/founder-austin-based-johnny-carino-italian-restaurants-dies/8rwemSI6q9VspYoOCFfqBK/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted July 24, 2018 Christian Heinzmann, former CEO of Luxair, dead at 65. http://delano.lu/d/detail/news/christian-heinzmann-has-died/187386 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted July 24, 2018 Mark Sebba, the former CEO of Net-A-Porter.com, a London-based online clothing company, has died. He was 69. https://www.theindustry.fashion/former-net-a-porter-ceo-mark-sebba-dies-at-the-age-of-69/?platform=hootsuite Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grim Up North 3,725 Posted July 25, 2018 On 21/07/2018 at 19:55, drol said: Marchionne's death is imminent. EDIT: Lung cancer and irreversible coma. Dead FT Obit Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted July 26, 2018 Martyn Callaghan, the CEO of St. Leonard's Hospice in York, has died. https://www.hospiceuk.org/about-hospice-care/media-centre/ehospice/details/tributes-pour-in-for-st-leonard-s-hospice-ceo?secured=false Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted July 26, 2018 Joel Fischer the Chairman and CEO of Vogue Tyre, has died. He was 89. Fischer retired in 1997 but continued on as Chairman & CEO. http://www.moderntiredealer.com/news/730644/vogue-tyre-chairman-and-ceo-joel-fischer-has-died Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted July 27, 2018 Bill Street, the former president of Brown-Forman, one of the largest American-owned companies in the spirits and wine business, has died. He was 79. https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2018/07/26/past-brown-forman-president-bill-street-dies-after-cancer/842306002/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,033 Posted July 27, 2018 2 minutes ago, alt obits guy said: Bill Street, the former president of Brown-Forman, one of the largest American-owned companies in the spirits and wine business, has died. He was 79. https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2018/07/26/past-brown-forman-president-bill-street-dies-after-cancer/842306002/ You know, you are getting a lot of non-responses to your posts. Just a friendly word of advice. I was you once. I felt the Listers had to know of most deaths. Then I realised...mostly they didn't. This is a mainly UK based website, so almost anybody from the UK of note is...well...interesting. Outside of the UK, they have to be really really interesting. Like a pick for a pool. Like an entertainment star...yes, even a C-lister. Like someone previously mentioned on the site. Somebody who has done...something, anything that might garner a response. Plucking folk from the US who have essentially done their job isn't. Really. Local football coaches? Local Nigerian bishops? Telephone company executives? What's the hook that Listers may love? Others have been pointed in the past to setting up their own site for that sort of thing. You might catch the interest of a reader with something. Indeed, you could spark the interest of Listers by making a list of possibles from something. All I know is that when I took a breath, I saved my fingers and time. I don't even post in the specialist threads now unless I have a vague notion of who the person was. I'm not whining or moaning. I could care less what you post. Each to their own and all that. Maybe try and understand your readership. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
En Passant 3,741 Posted July 27, 2018 8 minutes ago, YoungWillz said: You know, you are getting a lot of non-responses to your posts. <snip some (ok a lot)> Tactful bastard aintcha? A sort of Scottish counterbalance to Charon. . NB. love to read both though, makes me smile. (ok that's enough of that, I think I just felt a bit of sick come up). 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted July 27, 2018 19 minutes ago, YoungWillz said: You know, you are getting a lot of non-responses to your posts. Just a friendly word of advice. I was you once. I felt the Listers had to know of most deaths. Then I realised...mostly they didn't. This is a mainly UK based website, so almost anybody from the UK of note is...well...interesting. Outside of the UK, they have to be really really interesting. Like a pick for a pool. Like an entertainment star...yes, even a C-lister. Like someone previously mentioned on the site. Somebody who has done...something, anything that might garner a response. Plucking folk from the US who have essentially done their job isn't. Really. Local football coaches? Local Nigerian bishops? Telephone company executives? What's the hook that Listers may love? Others have been pointed in the past to setting up their own site for that sort of thing. You might catch the interest of a reader with something. Indeed, you could spark the interest of Listers by making a list of possibles from something. All I know is that when I took a breath, I saved my fingers and time. I don't even post in the specialist threads now unless I have a vague notion of who the person was. I'm not whining or moaning. I could care less what you post. Each to their own and all that. Maybe try and understand your readership. I'm posting to post because I find the names interesting enough and worthy of inclusion. If people read it they do. If they don't, they don't. It's not a matter of readership or an audience. I'm happy for the responses people give, but I have no sleepless nights if I don't get replies to my posts or my community reputation isn't advancing at a certain pace. Conversely, I have virtually no interest in any of the Death List extra-curricular topics that seem to occupy some people's time. What I have noticed in at least one person does take an interest in my posts because many of the names get added to the Wikipedia 'Deaths in 2018' page, essential reading for any deadpool player, Deathlist participant or not. Whomever that is, I thank them for their efforts at including the names on that page. That's probably the closest I get to having a goal here aside from providing content. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,033 Posted July 27, 2018 44 minutes ago, alt obits guy said: I'm posting to post because I find the names interesting enough and worthy of inclusion. If people read it they do. If they don't, they don't. It's not a matter of readership or an audience. I'm happy for the responses people give, but I have no sleepless nights if I don't get replies to my posts or my community reputation isn't advancing at a certain pace. Conversely, I have virtually no interest in any of the Death List extra-curricular topics that seem to occupy some people's time. What I have noticed in at least one person does take an interest in my posts because many of the names get added to the Wikipedia 'Deaths in 2018' page, essential reading for any deadpool player, Deathlist participant or not. Whomever that is, I thank them for their efforts at including the names on that page. That's probably the closest I get to having a goal here aside from providing content. That's fine. Go your own way. As I said, I'm not bothered. It's nice to know your motivation. I for one would be more than happy, as you are Canadian, to get the inside draw on Canadians who I feel are under represented and have been for a long time here. We can't rely on Shatner forever you know... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted July 28, 2018 John Richards, the Harvard- and Stanford-educated former chairman of Potlach Corp., an American diversified forest products company with nearly 1,000 employees, has died. He was 81. http://www.cdapress.com/local_news/20180728/timber_titan_john_richards_dies_at_81 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,966 Posted July 31, 2018 Blog update from my DDP pick Thuy Thanh Truong, the Vietnamese entrepreneur: https://medium.com/thuy-muoi/day-643-pleurodesis-69d2a1f28ed9 Sounds dire. Couple of months I guess, but 2018? And obiting? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted July 31, 2018 Kazuko Komatsu, CEO of Pacific Western Brewing Company, Canada’s largest independently owned brewery, has died. She was 70. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/kazuko-komatsu-bc-beer-pioneer-dead-1.4768216 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted August 1, 2018 Robert J. Stewart, the president & CFO of Ark Restaurants Corp., a 35 year old business that owns and operates restaurants, bars, fast food concepts & catering operations across the United States, has died. He was 61. http://www.stockhouse.com/news/press-releases/2018/07/30/ark-restaurants-corp-reports-the-passing-of-robert-j-stewart-the-companys-presi Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted August 5, 2018 Gerry Lenfest, a media mogul, cable television pioneer & owner of two Philadelphia daily newspapers whose philanthropy exceeded the one billion dollar mark, has died. He was 88. https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/HF-Gerry-Lenfest-Billionaire-Philanthropist-Who-Gave-to-Myriad-Philadelphia-Institutions-Dead-at--490096151.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 11,933 Posted August 9, 2018 On 09/05/2018 at 19:12, gcreptile said: Bernard Tapie now has esophageal cancer added to his stomach cancer, but it seems to be that he's currently doing ok: https://www.femmeactuelle.fr/actu/news-actu/bernard-tapie-double-cancer-y-croit-quand-meme-49742 Tapie had emergency "minor surgery" last week and he has already been discharged. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted August 10, 2018 Robert Danzig, who overcame abandonment and poverty as a toddler in Albany to become one of the city’s pre-eminent business leaders, and then served for more than two decades as president of Hearst Newspapers, died Wednesday in a Cape Cod hospital. He was 85. In recent years, after his retirement from Hearst, Danzig maintained a busy schedule as a motivational speaker. Even last week, aware of his impending death, he appeared on Facebook Live to recount some of the inspirational stories that were always on his mind. SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted August 15, 2018 David Welch, the former CEO of Stone Energy, a Louisiana-based oil and gas company that went out of business this past May, has died. https://www.klfy.com/news/local/former-stone-energy-ceo-david-welch-dies/1373087270 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted August 23, 2018 Joseph Kadji Defosso, a billionaire Cameroon industrialist and the founder of the Cameroonian Union of Breweries, has died. He was 95. https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.cameroon-info.net/article/cameroun-le-richissime-homme-daffaires-joseph-kadji-defosso-est-mort-326580.html&prev=search Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted August 23, 2018 Vaughn Beals, a former Chairman and CEO of Harley-Davidson and one of 13 Harley-Davidson Inc. executives who negotiated the buyback from AMF Corp., has died. He was 90. https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2018/08/23/vaughn-beals-who-lead-turnaround-harley-davidson-dies-90/1072862002/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,033 Posted August 27, 2018 Death Notice for Sir Adrian Swire, billionaire former chairman of John Swire and Sons, aged 86: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/226745/swire Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted August 28, 2018 Adrian Swire, a knighted billionaire British businessman and the former chairman of John Swire & Sons Ltd., has died. He was 86. http://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2018/08/sir-adrian-swire-1932-2018.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
