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	Anton Rupert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rupert had also been deeply involved in environmental conservation and his companies have been prominent in funding the fine arts; since 1964 foundations established by Rembrandt have used a part of the group's profits for the promotion of education, art, music and the preservation of historical buildings.
		Rupert's eldest son, Johann Rupert, is now the CEO of Richemont and chairman of Remgro.
		Rupert was a founding member of the WWF (World Wildlife Fund) and it was in his role as the president of the organisation’s South African branch that he took a lead in the creation of trans-frontier parks (also known as trans-frontier conservation areas (TFCAs) or “peace parks”), such as the Lubombo trans-frontier conservation area.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anton_Rupert (622 words)

	South African tobacco tycoon Anton Rupert dies - Boston.com
		Rupert, 89, whose family is among the 500 richest in the world with assets worth around $1.7 billion according to business magazine Forbes, built up a business empire spanning several continents after starting to manufacture cigarettes in his garage in the 1940s.
		Rupert was the driving force behind the creation of Richemont, bringing some of the world's most exclusive brands such as Mont Blanc, Cartier and Dunhill under one umbrella.
		Although Rupert's early business strategy was prompted by the Afrikaner nationalism which gave rise to apartheid, he mistrusted politicians and had numerous clashes with South Africa's apartheid-era prime ministers, according to a recent biography.
	www.boston.com /news/world/africa/articles/2006/01/19/south_african_tobacco_tycoon_anton_rupert_dies (415 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Anton Rupert
		Anton Rupert, who has died aged 89, was one of South Africa's most eminent industrialists and philanthropists; in classic rags-to-riches fashion, he started with a £10 investment which he eventually transformed into an multi-million pound international financial conglomerate.
		Anton Edward Rupert was born at the Karoo town of Graff-Reinet on October 4 1916.
		Rupert's own aversion from his country's apartheid policies was expressed quietly but forcefully.
	sport.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/01/21/db2103.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/01/22/ixportal.html (628 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Obituaries \| Anton Rupert
		The death of South African tobacco tycoon Anton Rupert, at the age of 89, prompted floods of tributes from the country's political rulers and business leaders.
		Rupert grew up surrounded by the desolate beauty of South Africa's vast Karoo Desert in the small town of Graaff-Reinet, where his father was a lawyer.
		Rupert became the leader by example of the drive of South Africa's Afrikaans-speaking population to succeed in business, which had been dominated by the English.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,,1692695,00.html (783 words)

	IOL: A pragmatist who earned others' respect
		Rupert, who was among the world's 500 richest people, according to Forbes magazine, saw himself as a white African, with a responsibility to the continent.
		In Anton Rupert; the biography, an excellent, if polite account of Rupert's life by Ebbe Dommisse, we learn that Rupert, via his son, Johann Rupert who had succeeded him as CEO of the Rembrandt group, sent a scrubbed record to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in November 1997.
		Rupert was convinced that free enterprise was the route to a stable fl urban middle class.
	www.int.iol.co.za /index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20060122113813595C411140 (1691 words)

	South African tycoon Anton Rupert dies at 89
		Rupert, who was born in the small south-central town of Graaff-Reinet north of the seaside town of Port Elizabeth, died in his sleep on Wednesday night at his Cape Town home, a family spokesman told the SAPA news agency.
		Rupert's entrepreneurial ability was underscored by the fact that, at a time when many countries had imposed sanctions on apartheid South Africa, Rembrandt went to Europe and built the Swiss-based luxury goods group Richemont.
		Anton Rupert was also known for his keen interest in conservation, wildlife, the arts and philanthrophy.
	www.turkishpress.com /news.asp?id=103957 (480 words)

	business.iafrica.com \| business news Anton Rupert dies at 89
		Rupert was a pioneering billionaire, entrepreneur and conservationist.
		Dr Rupert has also been deeply involved in environmental conservation and his companies have been prominent in funding the fine arts; since 1964 foundations established by Rembrandt have used a part of the group's profits for the promotion of education, art, music and the preservation of historical buildings.
		The Rupert family is also deeply involved in the South African wine and liquor industry, owning the L'Ormarins and La Motte wine estates and having a stake in Rupert & Rothschild Vignerons (the wine-making partnership between the Rupert and Rothschild families).
	business.iafrica.com /news/821704.htm (807 words)

	Business Day - News Worth Knowing
		ANTON Rupert’s study of world markets, as well as his own observations during the depression, convinced him that “tobacco and liquor had the best growth potential because I noticed during the depression of the 1930s that people didn’t smoke less and, if anything, they probably drank more”.
		Rupert replied that he had a four-day booking at Grosvenor House, the Mayfair hotel, where he would occupy the same suite on all his visits to London over the years (just as he would remain a client of the same bank, Volkskas, and the same insurer, Sanlam, for many years).
		Rupert was not at all surprised, said Luyt; all that mattered to him were the terms on which they would part.
	www.businessday.co.za /articles/topstories.aspx?ID=BD4A90590 (3466 words)

	WorldTempus.com > Actualité
		Rupert's staff is fiercely loyal to him, and his ability to discover talented professionals and place them in key positions has served him well in wine (and in all his efforts, for that matter).
		Anton Edward Rupert was born on Oct. 4, 1916, in the town of Graaff-Reinet; his father, a lawyer, had to struggle to make ends meet during the Depression.
		Anton Rupert remains chairman of a family-owned holding company that controls the South African side of the empire, but Johann is the chief executive of the group's leading domestic and international conglomerates.
	www.worldtempus.com /wt/1/780 (5726 words)

	sundaytimes.co.za :: Home of the Sunday Times :: South Africa's best selling newspaper :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Anton Rupert is one of the most successful businessmen this country has ever seen.
		Rupert’s philosophy of coexistence caused such a stir in government circles that it was even debated in parliament.
		Rupert saw this would limit his activities to South Africa, whereas his philosophy was all about interdependence between the countries of southern Africa.
	www.sundaytimes.co.za /articles/article-xmas.aspx?ID=ST6A96730 (1156 words)

	business.iafrica.com \| entrepreneurs \| nuts & bolts Anton Rupert: A biography
		Eighty-nine-year-old Anton Rupert is undoubtedly South Africa's most successful entrepreneur and one of the greatest businessmen the country has ever produced.
		Unlike the Oppenheimers, who not only inherited most of their wealth, but had made it from the country's rich mineral resources, Rupert started his global empire with a personal investment of just £10 (okay, it was 1941), and his family now sits on the Forbes list of 500 wealthiest worldwide, with estimated assets of $1.7-billion.
		Interestingly, Rupert's early business philosophy was shaped by Afrikaner nationalism and proving that Afrikaners could hold their own in the economy.
	business.iafrica.com /entrepreneurs/nutsandbolts/649169.htm (641 words)

	Peace Parks Foundation
		ANTON RUPERT was the founder of a multibillion-pound international conglomerate that he built on the twin pillars of tobacco and alcohol in his native South Africa.
		Anton Edward Rupert was born in 1916 in a small Eastern Cape town.
		Anton Rupert, businessman and conservationist, was born on October 4, 1916.
	www.peaceparks.org /new/news.php?pid=13&mid=72 (1776 words)

	Cape Times - Anton Rupert
		There are perhaps people who would have liked to have disliked Anton Rupert, who died late on Wednesday aged 89, on principle: he was a billionaire, an unashamed laissez faire capitalist who built his empire on cigarettes and liquor, and on pandering to the luxury goods demands of the very wealthy.
		Rupert has been voted ninth in a list of South Africa's 100 most influential people - and yet, he was essentially a shy man, eschewing publicity and the glare of the spotlights.
		But Anton Rupert was above all a philanthropist, a patron of the arts, and one of Africa's most influential conservationists.
	www.capetimes.co.za /index.php?fSectionId=273&fArticleId=3073795 (376 words)

	SA pays tribute to Anton Rupert : Mail & Guardian Online
		Rupert struck him as a man deeply committed to preserving the natural heritage of South Africa and the region.
		Rupert was one of the great builders and architects of South Africa's many landscapes in business and industry, in the arts, nature and wildlife conservation, said official opposition Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon.
		Rupert was a great South African who made an enormous contribution to the South African economy, former president FW de Klerk said on Thursday.
	www.mg.co.za /articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national&articleid=261772 (1180 words)

	IOL: Anton Rupert: a business giant passes
		Dr Anton Rupert, a giant of South African commerce and industry and reputedly one of the richest men on earth, died at his home in Stellenbosch early today.
		Rupert is said to have died peacefully in his sleep.
		In a special tribute issued by the family today, Rupert was described as a "mixture of ideas and action - a man who tackled the challenges of the future with the wisdom and experience of the past.
	www.iol.co.za /index.php?art_id=vn20060119102217118C272128 (937 words)

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		Rassendyll the year before at Dresden; Rupert was keeping a watchful eye on all that passed in Strelsau; Rupert had procured the fellow his fine testimonials and sent him to me, in the hope that he would chance on something of advantage to his employer.
		Rupert opened it, and when he saw what was inside, he laughed again, and stowed it away in his pocket.
		The first steps of Rupert's scheme were laid as Rudolf had conjectured: Rischenheim had started, even while I lay there, for Zenda, carrying on his person a copy of the queen's farewell letter and armed for his enterprise by his right of audience with the king.
	ftp.sunet.se /pub/etext/wiretap-classic-library/rupert.ah (24131 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| sa news Rupert honoured in memorial service
		Rupert (89), died in his sleep at his home in Stellenbosch at 11pm last Wednesday and was buried next to his wife Huberte on Tuesday.
		Expressing their thanks for the support they had received since his death, Rupert's family asked that donations in lieu of flowers be made to the Peace Parks Foundation.
		Thousands had been expected to attend, and hear Rupert's son Johann and daughters Carolyn and Hanneli pay tribute to their father in a service led by Johann's brother-in-law, Dr James Gray, of the United Church in Hermanus.
	iafrica.com /news/sa/855204.htm (335 words)

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		According to Forbes, the Ruperts in that year, apart from their $816m shareholding in Richemont, also controlled 86% of the South African tobacco market and had meaningful stakes in gold-mining companies, banks and the wine industry.
		The Rupert family has been a dominant force in the South African business world since the 1940s when Anton Rupert founded the Rembrandt Group and built it up into a multibillion rand group that was at one point second only in size to Anglo American.
		Anton Rupert (89), the SA industrialist and businessman who died in his sleep at his home in Stellenbosch last night, was known for his business savvy and his commitment to culture and conservation.
	www.tobacco.org /articles/country/879?starting_at=15 (1973 words)

	Anton Rupert, Industrialist and Philanthropist in Africa, Is Dead at 89 - New York Times
		Anton Rupert, Industrialist and Philanthropist in Africa, Is Dead at 89
		Rupert rose from humble beginnings to become one of South Africa's most successful industrialists, playing a leading role in the country's mining, tobacco, banking, media, beverage, food and health care industries.
		Rupert wanted to be remembered as a man of worth rather than simply as a successful man, Mr.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/01/20/business/20rupert.html?ex=1295413200&en=1def32f5d54b2385&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (453 words)

	Moneyweb: South Africa's leading source for independent investment information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Anton Rupert often emphasised to his marketers that reliable quality was the primary requirement for a brand, even more crucial than price.
		Rupert referred to the success examples of Cartier, Dunhill, Piaget, Baume & Mercier, Rothmans and Peter Stuyvesant as brands that were in essence the product of a personality and were sustained strongly by a personality.
		Ritter observed that Rupert emphasised that the benefits of a product had to be communicated simply and intelligibly in advertisements - he abhorred sensational advertising.
	www.moneyweb.co.za /people/books/486470.htm (458 words)

	Industry News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Rupert noticed that the final ‘t’ in the name had been dropped from the label.
		When asked if he believed in advertising, Rupert replied: “Yes, but if you were to ask me what is most important in a business, it is firstly the quality of a product, secondly the quality of the staff and thirdly capital.
		Anton Rupert, a biography by Ebbe Dommisse and Willie Esterhuyze, published by Tafelberg.
	www.marketingweb.co.za /industry_news/824951.htm (659 words)

	Anton Rupert was 'prophet of inclusive future' : Mail & Guardian Online
		In a rare personal note, Mbeki said: "As I reflected on the life of Anton Rupert, I could not but remark the fact that my own mother, Pinky Mbeki, and Anton Rupert were born in the same year, 1916.
		Mbeki also noted that Rupert had opposed apartheid and upheld the need for a business partnership with South Africa's fl population at a time when it was not popular among the ruling Afrikaners.
		Rupert, founder of the Remgro empire, died in Stellenbosch on January 18, aged 89.
	www.mg.co.za /articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/&articleid=263938 (423 words)

	Business Report - Mbeki heaps praise upon Anton Rupert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Johannesburg - Business tycoon Anton Rupert was a pioneer in the establishment of South Africa's footprint in the global financial and commercial world, President Thabo Mbeki said on Thursday.
		Rupert, 89, died in his sleep at his Stellenbosch home on Wednesday night.
		Mbeki said Rupert would also be remembered for his total devotion to nature and environmental conservation, adding he was true philanthropist.
	www.busrep.co.za /index.php?fArticleId=3073174 (724 words)

	Fin24 : Anton Rupert dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cape Town - Dr Anton Rupert, undoubtedly South Africa's most successful entrepreneur and one of the greatest businessmen the country has produced, has died.
		Rupert's son Johann was abroad at the time of Rupert's death, and was on his way home.
		The Rupert business empire includes Richemont, which sports luxury names Cartier, Mont Blanc, Rothmans and Dunhill, and stakes in Distell, British American Tobacco, FirstRand, Absa, TransHex, Unilever, Nampak, TotalSA, Rainbow Chicken and Medi-Clinic through Remgro.
	www.fin24.co.za /articles/shares/display_article.asp?Nav=tr&lvl2=share&ArticleID=1518-24_1865699 (317 words)

	South Africa : Anton Rupert - RIP
		Yesterday, South Africa lost a great man. The Ruperts and the Oppenheimers have always been considered the closest thing SA has to royalty and in this regard Anton Rupert was definitely lord of the manor.
		An inspirational story, Rupert rose from humble beginnings to become an massively successfuly international businessman of considerable influence.
		Not content with just making money Rupert was also involved in substantial contributions towards the arts, conservation and education.
	southafrica.blogspirit.com /archive/2006/12/20/anton-rupert-rip.html (114 words)

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