alt obits guy 3,386 Posted October 16, 2021 Rejean Nadeau, the CEO of Canadian meat packing food processing giant Olymel, has died. He was 71. https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/rejean-nadeau-ceo-of-olymel-has-died-at-the-age-of-71-1.5624699 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,285 Posted October 21, 2021 On 31/03/2021 at 14:43, Bentrovato said: Well you can all go and suck on this as far as I am concerned. Fisherman's Friend tycoon Doreen Lofthouse dies aged 91 - BBC News Doreen Lofthouse disinherits her son: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10113989/Doreen-Lofthouse-mastermind-Fishermans-Friends-lozenges-leaves-41m-fortune-will.html Now he is running the Fisherman's Friend brand, so I guess he is all right. This is an interesting ploy by people which I will never understand, Daniel Craig also announcing his kids will get nothing when he goes. Of course, all these people are doing in the main is enriching the lives of strangers rather than their families. I guess if there is no incentive to care for your folks in their old age rather than just love (a commodity least valued in this society), they can let their money get them out of bed in the middle of the night, pick them up off the floor when they fall, yadayada. So lots of people working for charities will now be able not only to do a lot of good, but also live in a big house themselves, with a lovely increase in salary, etc etc. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,943 Posted October 21, 2021 10 minutes ago, YoungWillz said: Doreen Lofthouse disinherits her son: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10113989/Doreen-Lofthouse-mastermind-Fishermans-Friends-lozenges-leaves-41m-fortune-will.html Now he is running the Fisherman's Friend brand, so I guess he is all right. This is an interesting ploy by people which I will never understand, Daniel Craig also announcing his kids will get nothing when he goes. Of course, all these people are doing in the main is enriching the lives of strangers rather than their families. I guess if there is no incentive to care for your folks in their old age rather than just love (a commodity least valued in this society), they can let their money get them out of bed in the middle of the night, pick them up off the floor when they fall, yadayada. So lots of people working for charities will now be able not only to do a lot of good, but also live in a big house themselves, with a lovely increase in salary, etc etc. Many people do it as a means to incentivise their kids to work hard to make money for themselves and be self-dependent but some people also set up accounts where they put money aside for their kids, which can be accessed by them both before or after the death of the parent. It bypasses inheritance tax so makes more sense. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,285 Posted October 21, 2021 3 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said: Many people do it as a means to incentivise their kids to work hard to make money for themselves and be self-dependent but some people also set up accounts where they put money aside for their kids, which can be accessed by them both before or after the death of the parent. It bypasses inheritance tax so makes more sense. I'm not saying it's right or wrong, I just don't understand it. Why not at least leave the inheritance tax limit to your child(ren)? In Scotland, you can't disinherit your kids outright. As I say, I think all you do is make a lot of other families and their kids richer. But it's their money, they can do what they like. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bentrovato 1,118 Posted October 21, 2021 25 minutes ago, YoungWillz said: I'm not saying it's right or wrong, I just don't understand it. Why not at least leave the inheritance tax limit to your child(ren)? In Scotland, you can't disinherit your kids outright. As I say, I think all you do is make a lot of other families and their kids richer. But it's their money, they can do what they like. Outside of the charity and Will etc, how incestuous were her marriages. Bit close. Keeping it in family is all well and good but.. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,943 Posted October 21, 2021 1 hour ago, YoungWillz said: I'm not saying it's right or wrong, I just don't understand it. Why not at least leave the inheritance tax limit to your child(ren)? In Scotland, you can't disinherit your kids outright. As I say, I think all you do is make a lot of other families and their kids richer. But it's their money, they can do what they like. I don't disagree with you actually. Merely pointing out other reasons why people do it. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 16,254 Posted October 21, 2021 3 hours ago, Bentrovato said: Outside of the charity and Will etc, how incestuous were her marriages. Bit close. Keeping it in family is all well and good but.. Not incestuous at all. Her two husbands are related to each other, not to her. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bentrovato 1,118 Posted October 22, 2021 15 hours ago, Toast said: Not incestuous at all. Her two husbands are related to each other, not to her. Pedant. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,385 Posted October 25, 2021 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10128653/Millionaire-hotel-tycoon-33-collapses-dies-London-address.html Multimillionaire property and hotel tycoon Vivek Chadha dies suddenly at a London address aged just 33. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,386 Posted November 3, 2021 Jane Brown Grimes, President and CEO emeritus of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, as well as an inductee into that organization for her service to it, has died. She was 80. https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2328612/in-memoriam-hall-of-famer-ithf-president-emerita-jane-brown-grimes 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,692 Posted November 4, 2021 Former Airbus chief executive Jean Pierson has died aged 80. He took Airbus from a consortium of independent aircraft companies to compete on the world stage against Boeing during his tenure from 1985 to 1998, the longest anyone has held the position. Reportedly dropped his trousers when US Airways demanded a discount on its already-agreed order. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,285 Posted November 5, 2021 Norman Macfarlane, Lord Macfarlane of Bearsden, Scottish Development Agency Board member and patron of the arts and Queens Park Football Club, dead: https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/19697394.scottish-business-doyen-lord-macfarlane-bearsden-dies/ Retired from the House of Lords in 2016. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,931 Posted November 5, 2021 https://www.reuters.com/world/us/aaron-feuerstein-dies-95-paid-idled-workers-after-fire-2021-11-05/ Aaron Feuerstein, former owner of Malden Mills dead at 95. Gained fame for paying workers idled after a fire in December 1995. Just after the fire Feuerstein said, "I'm not throwing 3,000 people out of work two weeks before Christmas," a Malden Mills executive once told the Boston Globe newspaper. Malden Mills developed the polar fleece. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,931 Posted November 5, 2021 https://www.iltalehti.fi/kotimaa/a/a621435d-1326-47c4-a1b8-f22a3e9dde57 Kirsti Paakkanen, owner and "saver" of Marimekko 1991-2008 dead at 92. Big news in Finland (especially since there hasn't really been a "nationally notable" death in a month or two), apparently just announced ten minutes ago. Bought the fashion company Amer, who had bought it from the children of the people who founded it, notably Ristomatti Ratia. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,386 Posted November 8, 2021 Cal Burleson, a former Chairman of the Board of the American Red Cross of Greater Indianapolis and a member of the Indianapolis Indians minor league baseball's teams front office for 45 years, has died. He was 71. https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/2021/11/08/cal-burleson-member-indianapolis-minor-baseball-team-front-office-dies/6345625001/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 8,069 Posted November 20, 2021 On 15/09/2015 at 11:21, YoungWillz said: Subway founder Fred DeLuca dies of leukaemia. http://www.qsrmagazine.com/news/subway-founder-fred-deluca-dies-age-67 Time to update those personal survivor lists, apparently popular pick for 2014, but as far as I can see, nobody picked him for DDP this year. Subway co-founder Peter Buck follows suit aged 90 - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/subway-co-founder-peter-buck-dead-at-90/ 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 11,128 Posted November 24, 2021 Mr. Goxx, a crypto-currency trading hamster, whose performance beat Warren Buffet has died unexpectedly: https://www.the-sun.com/news/4137453/mr-goxx-dead-crypto-trading-hamster/ 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,943 Posted November 30, 2021 On 20/11/2021 at 00:58, Death Impends said: Subway co-founder Peter Buck follows suit aged 90 - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/subway-co-founder-peter-buck-dead-at-90/ Telegraph obit for Peter Buck. Apparently ate 5 Subways a week even up to his death. 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 16,254 Posted November 30, 2021 31 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said: Telegraph obit for Peter Buck. Apparently ate 5 Subways a week even up to his death. I've only ever been in Subway once. It was busy with a fast-moving queue, and I wasn't expecting to have to make a seemingly endless number of decisions at machine-gun speed. I was too traumatised ever to repeat the experience. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 11,128 Posted December 3, 2021 German billionaire August von Finck jr. dead in London at 91: https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/august-von-finck-junior-milliardaer-und-parteienspender-ist-tot-a-76a75abc-8464-4a81-b4df-2fce43deb752 Most prominent for his unusually huge political donation that ruined our liberal party for a few years. Big pal of Helmut Kohl. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,943 Posted December 6, 2021 Times obit for John Barton (wiki), aged 77, British businessman who was chairman of Next and EasyJet. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,931 Posted December 8, 2021 https://www.theledger.com/story/news/local/2021/12/08/philanthropist-publix-heiress-carol-jenkins-barnett-dies-65/6431461001/ Businesswoman, heiress Carol Jenkins Barnett dead at 65 from early-onset Alzheimer's. Daughter of George W. Jenkins, founder of Publix. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,285 Posted December 10, 2021 Knighted business executive Sir Christopher Hogg death notice: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/253983/hogg-sir-christopher Yeah, it's all blah blah blah, Chief Exec of Courtaulds, non-exec director of the Bank of England, former Chair of Reuters Group, YAWN!! What is important however is that his wife is Miriam Stoppard, or should I say Miriam, Lady Hogg, doctor, author, presenter and born 1937 so getting up there in possible selection. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,931 Posted December 27, 2021 Swedish billionaire Eva Lundin, shareholder of Lundin Mining and Lundin Energy and widow of Adolf H. Lundin dead at 87 on christmas day in an accident at Mustique, St. Vincent and the Grenadines: https://www.di.se/nyheter/ravarumiljardaren-eva-lundin-har-avlidit/ 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thatcher 2,537 Posted December 28, 2021 James Cayne, investor and former CEO of Bear Stearns, has died aged 87. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites