"The couple had three sons (Alan Parker, public relations and former chief executive of Save the Children Fund; Oliver Parker, film director; Nathaniel Parker, the actor), and a daughter. Parker died on 28 April 2002 from a suspected heart attack while on a trip to Turkey. Parker was the first former Chairman of British Rail to have an engine named in his honour. At a ceremony at Old Oak Common, west London, on 17 September 2003, High Speed Train power car number 43127 was named ""Sir Peter Parker 1924–2002 Cotswold Line 150"" by Lady Parker. The naming had been arranged"
"foodservice equipment. In 1986, he was appointed CEO of Kenwood Appliances, and in 1989 completed and LBO of the business, backed by Candover Partners. The company was purchased for £54m and subsequently listed on London Stock Exchange in 1992 at a valuation of £104m. In 1996, Parker was appointed CEO of Clarks Shoes, the leading non-athletic shoe brand in the world. During a period of six years the company was substantially reorganised, withdrawing from European manufacture, and reviving the Clarks brand with more up-to-date shoe styles. 20 factories were closed. Over this period, the profitability of the footwear business increased"
"the Rockware Group (1971–76, and 1983–92); Bookers Engineering and Industrial Holdings (1966–70); Associated British Maltsters (1971–73); Curtis Brown (1971–76); Dawnay Day group (1971–76); Mitsubishi Electric UK (1984–96); and Whitehead Mann (1984–2000). He was also chairman of the National Theatre Board, of the British Tourist Authority and of Westfield College. He was knighted in 1978 and appointed a KBE in 1993. He was conferred with the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Sacred Treasure 1st Class (1991) (Japan). Parker married Gillian Rowe-Dutton in 1951, a general practitioner and gardener who wrote ""The Purest of Pleasures: Creation of a Romantic Garden""."
"John Parker (businessman) Sir Thomas John Parker, (born 8 April 1942) is a British businessman. He is currently Chairman of Anglo American PLC (until 31 October 2017) and Ombu Group, and a Director of Airbus and Carnival Corporation & plc. He is also past President of the Royal Academy of Engineering, patron at the Centre for Process Innovation and a Visiting Fellow of the University of Oxford. Parker has chaired five FTSE 100 companies, including National Grid plc, from which he stood down in December 2011. Parker was born into a farming family in County Down, Northern Ireland. He attended"
"manufacturing. In the early 1950s, the firm's executives set a goal to make Parker, as ""The New York Times"" put it, ""the General Electric of fluid power"", a goal it generally achieved in the coming decades. In 1957, the company purchased Hannifin, a producer of valve and cylinder products, and changed its name to Parker Hannifin. Many more acquisitions followed, with the company reaching 40 acquisitions by the year 1979. In 1953, Arthur Parker's son Patrick S. Parker began working full-time at the company. He rose to become its president in 1968, and served as CEO from 1971 to 1983"
"Peter George Peterson Peter George Peterson June 5, 1926 – March 20, 2018) was an American investment banker who served as United States Secretary of Commerce from February 29, 1972 to February 1, 1973 under the Richard Nixon administration. Before serving as Secretary of Commerce, Peterson was Chairman and CEO of Bell & Howell from 1963 to 1971. From 1973 to 1984 he was Chairman and CEO of Lehman Brothers. In 1985 he co-founded the private equity firm, The Blackstone Group, and served as Chairman. Peterson was Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations until retiring in 2007, after being"
"segment of the petroleum industry. During his career, Hillman served as a director of Chemical Bank & Trust Co. (an ancestor of JP Morgan Chase & Co.); the Copeland Corporation (chairman 1970–1986); Cummins Engine Company, Inc.; Edgewater Steel; General Electric Company; Global Marine Systems; Marion Power Shovel Company; Marquette Cement Manufacturing; Merck & Co., Inc.; National Steel Corporation; Nichols-Homeshield Inc.; Shakespeare Company; Texas Gas Transmission (chairman 1959–1975); and Wilson Marine Transit. He stepped down from active management of The Hillman Company in 2004. As chairman, he remained active in the company's governance. Hillman was inducted into the Private Equity Hall"
"company culture to inspire the company's more than 50,000 employees to believe they can make anything possible. In 1960, Parker joined the Board of Directors. He was elected President in 1968 and served as Chief Executive Officer from 1971 through 1983. He was named Chairman in 1977, a position he retired from in 1999. He had previously retired as an employee in 1994. He died from cancer at the age of 75 in July 2005. Patrick S. Parker Patrick ""Pat"" Streeter Parker (October 16, 1929 – July 6, 2005) Born in Cleveland, the son of Arthur L. and Helen Parker."
"14 March 1975, to 29 July 1976. Nationalization was followed by the consolidation of the several private firms in each industry into state monopolies. As an example, Quimigal, the chemical and fertilizer entity, represented a merger of five firms. Four large companies were integrated to form the national oil company, Petróleos de Portugal (Petrogal). Portucel brought together five pulp and paper companies. The fourteen private electric power enterprises were joined into a single power generation and transmission monopoly, Electricidade de Portugal (EDP). With the nationalization and amalgamation of the three tobacco firms under Tabaqueira, the state gained complete control of"
"in an individual company. American Airline's CEO Doug Parker is said to have won over Ted Weschler in arguing that the airline industry had consolidated sufficiently and rationalised supply such that longer term profitability could be achieved in an industry that has historically been loss making in aggregate. Berkshire previously held a considerable stake in Tesco Plc, the UK grocery retailer. Berkshire made its first investment in Tesco in 2006 and in 2012 raised this stake to over 5% of the company with a cost for the investment of $2.3 billion. Buffett sold around 30% of this stake in 2013"
"a group that later became P&O. In 1975 he left the board and entered into a joint venture with Manufacturers Hanover, and became Chairman of Manufacturers Hanover Property Services, lending on real estate in the United Kingdom and overseas. He also had a number of other commercial interests. He sold out all his commercial interests in 1980 upon entering the Department of Industry. His younger brother Stuart Young served as Chairman of the BBC. Young became involved in voluntary organisations as Chairman of the vocational training charity British ORT; he was made a Director of the CPS in 1979 shortly"
"more stable industry. The company also directed itself toward growth in aerospace, acquiring companies that created flight controls and wheel brake equipment for airplanes. By 1979, Parker Hannifin employed 20,000 people in 100 plants, selling 90,000 items for machinery, airplanes, cars and construction equipment to 60,000 customers. The company made some of the equipment inside the mechanical shark in the 1975 movie ""Jaws"". In 1982, Paul G. Schloemer replaced Patrick Parker as the company's president (although Patrick Parker remained chairman and CEO). That same year, the firm entered the Mexican market. By 2008, Parker Hannifin Mexico would come to operate"
"Vickers plc Vickers plc was the remainder of Vickers-Armstrongs after the nationalisation of three of its four operating groups: aviation (as a 50% share since 1960 of British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) in 1977), shipbuilding (Vickers Limited Shipbuilding Group in 1977) and steel. It was purchased by Rolls-Royce plc in 1999, and the Vickers company name became defunct in 2004. The company was created in 1977 from the rump of Vickers-Armstrongs following the nationalisation of its aviation, shipbuilding and steel businesses. During the 1980s the company acquired businesses in the Automotive Engineering sector (principally Rolls-Royce Motors), the Defence sector (principally Royal"
"The Labour government nationalised major public utilities such as mines, gas, coal, electricity, rail, iron, steel and the Bank of England. British Petroleum was officially nationalised in 1951. Anthony Crosland said that in 1956 25% of British industry was nationalised and that public employees, including those in nationalised industries, constituted a similar proportion of the country's total employed population. The Labour Governments of 1964–1970 and 1974–1979 intervened further. It re-nationalised steel (1967, British Steel) after the Conservatives had denationalised it and nationalised car production (1976, British Leyland). The National Health Service provided taxpayer-funded health care to everyone, free at the"
"Peter Parker, a leading industrial executive, sat on the board from 1971 until 1993. Richard Fulford-Smith became chief executive of the company in 2004. According to Robert Wright of the ""Financial Times"", he was central to Clarkson's emergence as the world's largest sale and purchase shipbroker. Fulford-Smith was ousted from the board in 2008 after Russian litigation claims emerged against the company. Until March 2012, Martin Stopford, a prominent economist, sat on the board and was head of the research arm of the company. In 2013, Clarkson acquired Gibb Tools, a North Sea oil engineering tools supplier, for £12.7 million."
"sector, in small and medium-sized enterprises, and in agriculture, and contributed significantly to regional development and to the expansion of India's industrial and agricultural base. Jayaprakash Narayan, who became famous for leading the opposition to Gandhi in the 1970s, was solid in his praise for her bank nationalisations. Having been re-elected in 1971 on a nationalisation platform, Gandhi proceeded to nationalise the coal, steel, copper, refining, cotton textiles, and insurance industries. Most of these nationalisations were made to protect employment and the interest of the organised labour. The remaining private sector industries were placed under strict regulatory control. During the"
"have two children. Parker is a Member of the Royal Yacht Squadron. Board Profiles: Articles: John Parker (businessman) Sir Thomas John Parker, (born 8 April 1942) is a British businessman. He is currently Chairman of Anglo American PLC (until 31 October 2017) and Ombu Group, and a Director of Airbus and Carnival Corporation & plc. He is also past President of the Royal Academy of Engineering, patron at the Centre for Process Innovation and a Visiting Fellow of the University of Oxford. Parker has chaired five FTSE 100 companies, including National Grid plc, from which he stood down in December"
"the Hannifin Corporation in the late 1950s and for reasons of brand recognition renamed the business the Parker Hannifin Corporation. Throughout the period between World War II and his death, Pat helped to build and expand Parker Hannifin to offer a wide array of hydraulic, pneumatic and electromechanical products, which gave Parker the position as a global leader in engineering. Now an $12.54 billion enterprise, the firm had annual sales of $197 million."" Parker went to Williams College where he received his B.A. degree. He later received his M.B.A. degree from the Harvard Business School. He received many honors which"
"claimed to be the world's most state-controlled capitalist country. The nationalised public utilities included Charbonnages de France (CDF), Electricité de France (EDF), Gaz de France (GDF), Air France, Banque de France and Régie Nationale des Usines Renault. In 1945, the British Labour Party led by Clement Attlee was elected to office based on a radical socialist programme. The Labour government nationalised major public utilities such as mines, gas, coal, electricity, rail, iron, steel and the Bank of England. British Petroleum was officially nationalised in 1951. Anthony Crosland said that in 1956 25% of British industry was nationalised and that public"
"England. He was President of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects from 1996–9. In 2012, he was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE), for services to Industry and to the Voluntary Sector. He was conferred with Honorary Fellowship of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland (HonFIES) in 2012. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 1983. He was elected as an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (HonFIET) in 2014. Parker married Emma, a former Latin teacher and pianist in 1967; they"
"Parker Knoll Parker Knoll is a British furniture manufacturing company, originally formed by Frederick Parker, a British furniture manufacturer, and Willi Knoll, a German inventor of a new form of sprung furniture. With roots in the manufacture of high-quality furniture, the brand concentrated on mass-market products from the 1930s to the 1990s. The company was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1950, but taken private in 2004. After financial problems, it was acquired out of administration by Sofa Brands International. In recent years, the brand has moved back to the higher-quality end of the domestic furniture market. Frederick Parker"
"In 1981, Parker was forced out by Wickes Companies, who had acceded to a 51% stock option held by the former Gamble Skogmo Company of Minneapolis, in April 1981. Two years later in 1983, Richard and Margaret Groves purchased the company. By 1984, the company had expanded its services and adopted the acronym NAVCO as its official moniker. In 1999, NAVCO purchased American Cabling and Communications (AC&C), a company specializing in structured cable and network communications. Later, in 2006, AC&C began the process of changing its name to NAVCO Network Systems. NAVCO currently has 12 offices in the United States,"
"Nova Scotia. Charles Peter McColough Charles Peter Philip Paul McColough (August 1, 1922 – December 13, 2006) was the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of the Xerox Corporation who, during his tenure at Xerox, founded the PARC (company). He retired in the late 1980s, after serving over fourteen years as CEO. Aside from his tenure at Xerox, McColough was treasurer of the Democratic National Committee between 1972 and 1974, was Chairman of United Way of America, and served on the Board of Trustees at the Council on Foreign Relations, New York Stock Exchange, Bank of New York,"
"Charles Peter McColough Charles Peter Philip Paul McColough (August 1, 1922 – December 13, 2006) was the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of the Xerox Corporation who, during his tenure at Xerox, founded the PARC (company). He retired in the late 1980s, after serving over fourteen years as CEO. Aside from his tenure at Xerox, McColough was treasurer of the Democratic National Committee between 1972 and 1974, was Chairman of United Way of America, and served on the Board of Trustees at the Council on Foreign Relations, New York Stock Exchange, Bank of New York, Wachovia, Citigroup,"
"to assert public ownership over the industrial megacorporations, and to satisfied the labour unions to keep the industrialisation peace in the country. Namely, the first stage of the nationalisation programme integrated the selective industries approved by the peoples party's government and the nationalisation programme provided the iron and steel, basic metal industries, heavy engineering industries, heavy electrical industries, assembly and manufacture of motor vehicles, tractor public utilities, including the electricity generation, transmission and distribution, gas and oil refineries, under the management of public sector. A large number of Christian educational facilities were also nationalized in 1972. One example is Gordon"
"large UK state-owned enterprises (or nationalized industries), including the country's ailing motor giant, British Leyland, when it was established in 1975. In 1977 he was appointed as chief executive of British Leyland, and within two weeks he became chairman as the company's board was 'pruned' from 13 to 7 members. In 1979 he was knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours. The next year, in 1980 he attracted criticism for a speech to the CBI Conference in which he said, ""If the Cabinet do not have the wit and imagination to reconcile our industrial needs with the fact of North Sea"
"Parker Steel Parker Steel is a steel merchant with its headquarters in Canterbury in the southern English county of Kent. It operates principally across southern England. Founded in 1904 by John Parker in Canterbury, Parker Steel began as an ironmonger (hardware) store in Canterbury City Centre at 11 The Parade. In 1923 John Parker was joined by his son, also called John, in the company, and it became John Parker and Son Ltd. A third generation of the Parker family, David Parker, joined the company in 1950, and remains Chairman of the company today. His nephew, Guy Parker, has also"
"Peter Reynolds took over as Chairman from Joseph Rank. The company made a number of important acquisitions during the 1980s in the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Far East including the purchase in 1987 of Avana Group, which was renamed Avana Bakeries Limited. In 1992 the Company was purchased by Tomkins plc who then sold it on to Doughty Hanson & Co in 2000. The Company remained in private equity ownership and sold a number of non-core business, including bakery retail chain Three Cooks. In July 2005 it was relisted on the London Stock Exchange. In March 2007,"
"Keller Group Keller Group plc () is the largest independent geotechnical solutions specialist in the world. With operations in more than 40 countries across six continents, and sales of £2.1 billion. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. The company was established in the 1950s as the ground engineering division of GKN plc. In 1960, it expanded into a stand-alone piling and ground improvement company. In 1975 it acquired the German company Johann Keller and took on that name. In 1984 Keller bought Hayward Baker Inc., a US ground engineering"
"Keller Group Keller Group plc () is the largest independent geotechnical solutions specialist in the world. With operations in more than 40 countries across six continents, and sales of £2.1 billion. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. The company was established in the 1950s as the ground engineering division of GKN plc. In 1960, it expanded into a stand-alone piling and ground improvement company. In 1975 it acquired the German company Johann Keller and took on that name. In 1984 Keller bought Hayward Baker Inc., a US ground engineering"
"Aveo Group Aveo Group is an Australian property and investment group, with a focus on retirement village ownership and management, property investment, and asset management, property development and construction. Formerly known as FKP, the group was formed from Peter Kurts Properties and Forrester Parker Group. Peter Kurts Properties became a publicly listed company in 1970. Forrester Parker Group Ltd had its origins in a venture formed in 1979 between Rodney Forrester and Philip Parker. It was incorporated in 1987 and listed on the Australian Stock Exchange in 1993. FKP has grown over the thirty years since it was established to"
"Parker Hannifin Parker Hannifin Corporation, originally Parker Appliance Company, usually referred to as just Parker, is an American corporation specializing in motion and control technologies. Its corporate headquarters are in Mayfield Heights, Ohio, in Greater Cleveland (with a Cleveland mailing address). The company was founded in 1917 and has been publicly traded on the NYSE since December 9, 1964. The firm is one of the largest companies in the world in motion control technologies, including aerospace, climate control, electromechanical, filtration, fluid and gas handling, hydraulics, pneumatics, process control, and sealing and shielding. Parker employs about 58,000 people globally. In 2016,"
"and Russian. Parker started his career in the early 1980s at HSBC, where he took a position as Marketing Product Manager. During his career, Parker briefly worked for PWC, before switching to strategic consulting and later the hospitality business. In early 2004, Parker moved to South East Asia to join Standard Chartered PLC, a British multinational financial services company whose largest shareholder is Temasek Holdings, a company owned by the Government of Singapore. After spending almost 8 years in Singapore and Hong Kong, Parker moved back to Europe to work as Head of Operations and Planning at the Royal Bank"