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  Vivendi Universal Acquires 16.9 Million Vivendi Universal Shares Sold By Bronfman Family
Entities related to my family, which continue to own approximately 33 million shares of Vivendi Universal, have committed with the Company not to sell or hedge shares for the remainder of 2001, and in any case, my family has no plans for further sales.
The family continues to be very supportive of the strategy, direction, pace, and performance of Vivendi Universal.
Following the sale of a portion of their shares to the Company, the Bronfman families and related charitable entities will hold approximately 6.1% of the Company?s shares, thus continuing to remain as the largest shareholder of Vivendi Universal.
www.vivendi.com /corp/en/press_2001/20010530_Vivendi_Universal_Acquires_169_Million_Vivendi_Universal_Shares_Sold_By_Bronfman_Family.php   (916 words)

  
  Bronfman Family
Until recently the best-known member of the family was Samuel Bronfman (b at Soroki, Bessarabia, or en route from Russia 27 Feb 1889; d at Montréal, Qué 10 July 1971).
With the coming of PROHIBITION in Canada, the Bronfmans turned their energies to the interprovincial package liquor trade, purchasing stocks of spirits which were sold at a good profit.
Bronfman (b at Montréal, Qué 20 June 1929), Sam's eldest son, was chairman of the board and chief executive officer (until 1994) of the company.
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?ArticleId=A0001024   (732 words)

  
 Edgar Bronfman, Sr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Edgar Miles Bronfman (born June 20, 1929) is a Canadian businessman and a member of the Bronfman dynasty, and the father of Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
Bronfman's marriage to Lady Townsend was annulled on November 21, 1974 (the marriage lasted less than a year), and was followed by a high-profile messy divorce proceeding.
Bronfman, who now owns a large chunk of the struggling French conglomerate Vivendi (nyse: V - news - people), admitted to his issues with matrimony in a 1989 Newsday interview: "Marriage is an institution, and if you like living in an institution, well then go right ahead."
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edgar_Bronfman,_Sr.   (505 words)

  
 Samuel Bronfman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Samuel Bronfman (February 27, 1891 - July 10, 1971) was the founder of Seagrams and a Canadian family dynasty the Bronfman family.
Bronfman was one of eight children of Mindel and Ekiel Bronfman, who were from Soroki, Bessarabia.
In 1903, the family bought a hotel business, and Samuel, noting that much of the profit was in alcoholic beverages, set up shop as a distributor, founding the Distillers Corporation in Montreal in 1924.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samuel_Bronfman   (340 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Bronfman family
The Bronfman family, one of the most influential Jewish families in the world, was made famous by Samuel Bronfman (1891-1971), who made a fortune in the distilled alcoholic beverages business during the 20th century through his Seagram Company.
Bronfman is Chairman of the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies Inc., a family of charitable foundations operating in Israel, the U.S.A. and Canada.
Bronfman, who was one of eight children of Mindel and Ekiel Bronfman, was born in Soroki, Bessarabia.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Bronfman-family   (454 words)

  
 Bronfman Launches Bid for His Old Empire - BizReport
He steered his family's money into the entertainment industry and then into an ill-fated merger with Vivendi Universal SA, which promised to become a global media giant but instead was a disintegrating disaster, doing little more than sucking Bronfman family millions into a fl hole.
Bronfman still is not regarded as the front-runner, but if he succeeds in winning Universal movie studios and television, the Universal theme parks and the jewel he covets the most -- Universal Music Group -- it would be the second time he has fought his way back from laughingstock to Hollywood player.
Bronfman watched as his family's fortune fizzled, and then moved on two fronts: First, he "wrestled the [other North American] directors to the ground" and led the board coup that resulted in Messier's ouster, said the source close to the Bronfman family.
www.bizreport.com /news/4577   (1293 words)

  
 Varsity News -- Bronfmans donate amidst tax scandal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Seagram and the Charles Bronfman family are very proud of their distinguished philanthropic record to Canadian universities, adds John Hobday, Seagram's spokesperson.
The Bronfmans' private donations in the same time period have included $10 million for the establishment of McGill University's Institute for the Study of Canada and $1.5 million towards the creation and continued funding of the University of Waterloo's Centre for Cultural Management.
In the case of the Bronfman family trusts in question, capital gains had accrued on this property since 1971, worth approximately $750 million in taxes.
www.varsity.utoronto.ca /archives/118/dec01/news/bronfman.html   (1277 words)

  
 Canadian Jewish News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
But at his funeral last week at the Congregation Shaar Hashomayim in Montreal, Bronfman family and friends recalled him as a shy and endearing man who would be remembered far more for his innate decency and devotion to family than for any formidable prowess as a financier.
Bronfman also served as director of the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews and supported numerous other Jewish and non-Jewish causes, among them the the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada, United Jewish Appeal, Jewish National Fund, Hebrew University, and the Canadian Council for Native Business.
Bronfman was survived by wife Marsha, sons Paul, David and Brian, stepdaughter Lisa and seven grandchildren.
www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=6087   (634 words)

  
 The Jewish Journal Of Greater Los Angeles
Bronfman was rooted with a sense of tikkun olam.
The Bronfman family has long manufactured ultra-successful, self-made businessmen with strong Jewish values, as similar to the mass producing of the Captain Morgan’s spiced rum for which Seagrams is known.
Bronfman believes that their spiritual awakening had to do with the death of his grandfather, Sam, which "prompted them to search for additional meaning in their lives," he said.
www.jewishjournal.com /home/print.php?id=7532   (1284 words)

  
 Ken Auletta :: Articles - Rising Son
From the time Edgar Bronfman, Jr., skipped college for a career in Hollywood to his decision to take over and redirect a large part of his family's Seagram Company, he has had a clear sense of what he wants his achievements to be.
Bronfman, who had not been in his office for two days, was rumored to have scheduled a press conference for seven-thirty that night, to announce that Seagram, the six-billion-dollar spirits, wine, beverage, and investment company, would raise its Time Warner stock holdings from almost fifteen per cent to outright ownership.
Bronfman's next major acquisition owes something to a 1985 trip he made to Asia as one of about thirty leading business executives--a trip sponsored by Time, Inc. In South China and elsewhere in Asia, Bronfman was stunned at the popularity of cognac--a legacy of the French colonial era--which is usually drunk with ice and water.
www.kenauletta.com /risingson.html   (8789 words)

  
 Canadian Edward Bronfman dies; was shy businessman, philanthropist :: Canadian Hadassah-WIZO :: For Israel, for Canada, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bronfman was born into a family whose name long has been synonymous with great wealth and business success in Canada.
Edward Bronfman's father, Allan, was the brother of Samuel Bronfman, the founder of the Seagram liquor company, which over the decades grew into one of the world's largest distilling firms.
In the 1960s, however, Edward Bronfman and his brother Peter were forced out of Seagram by their uncle, Samuel, and their cousins, Charles and Edgar, to whom they sold their shares of the company after a nasty public feud.
www.canadian-hadassah-wizo.org /print.php?sid=113   (680 words)

  
 Deal Time at Seagram (int'l edition)
In Bronfman's view, Seagram was at a disadvantage not only because of its size but because of its strategic imbalance, being heavily weighted toward content (particularly music) and away from distribution (particularly television).
Bronfman grew up in the shadow of what his predecessors had created and came to define himself in relation to their corporate legacy, first by resisting and then by embracing it.
Founder Samuel Bronfman (1891-1971) was both a brilliantly intuitive businessman and a hot-tempered tyrant who bullied his brothers into submission--or out of Seagram--and enflamed the question of succession by pitting his own two sons, Edgar and Charles, against each other.
www.businessweek.com /2000/00_26/b3687039.htm   (3458 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Warner may offer Bronfman redemption   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bronfman had to eat those words after his disastrous decision to sell Canada-based Seagram —; which he had built into a media power based on the acquisition of the Universal entertainment properties — to France's then-high-flying Vivendi three years ago in a deal that has cost his family billions.
Bronfman, who will run the company, is mum on his plans to return the business to healthy profits, but immediate moves are likely to focus on cost-cutting, including possibly merging or folding some record labels and cutting the roster of artists under contract — currently 800 in 70 countries.
Bronfman thought he was setting up a marriage of equals when he sold Seagram to Vivendi in 2000.
www.usatoday.com /money/media/2003-11-25-bronfman_x.htm   (987 words)

  
 Civilization.ca - The Bronfman Collection Virtual Gallery
Bronfman's 80th birthday, and is given annually to Canadian artists who are not only expert in their fields, but who teach and publish, serve on juries and participate in workshops and actively support their professional organisations.
In 2000, the Bronfman Collection Virtual Gallery was created to allow visitors to see more of the artistry for which the Awards were granted, and to read about the artisans.
We are pleased to be able to bring the work of the Saidye Bronfman Award recipients to a wider public through annual updates to this new electronic gallery.
www.civilization.ca /arts/bronfman/brint01e.html   (264 words)

  
 The Forward Newspaper Online: FACES FORWARD: Keeping Alive a Philanthropic Family Tradition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Even at age 42, Adam Bronfman has the air of perpetual youth to him: He wears a gold hoop earring, and his shock of red hair frequently has a pair of Oakley sunglasses perched on top — even in the dreariest of hotel conference rooms.
This being the Bronfman family — perhaps the single largest force in the Jewish charitable world — Adam's sudden high profile did not happen by chance.
Bronfman gave a talk about his own sense of Jewish identity when he visited Rio de Janeiro with his father.
www.forward.com /main/printer-friendly.php?id=2993   (1292 words)

  
 Bronfman Private HolyCost - David Icke - Tell the Truth!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bronfman is pushing 'pornography' affiliations with Playboy and children are indeed allowed access to Bronfman's private agenda, be it sex or history.
Bronfman and puppets are ONLY interested in their 'private agenda!'--- not fair play, not equality of views.
Bronfman and puppets moan and wail about forgetting the massacre of 6 million (contested) Jews by the Nazi Regime, which if true is not something this world is likely to simply forget.
www.davidicke.net /tellthetruth/facts/bronfmandeath.html   (6062 words)

  
 Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Family Foundation Lectureship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Family Foundation is one of Canada's major private granting foundations.
Established in 1952 as a vehicle for joint family giving, the Foundation embodies the philanthropic commitment of its founders and first directors: Samuel Bronfman, a leading industrialist; his wife, Saidye Rosner Bronfman; and their children, Minda, Phyllis, Edgar and Charles.
Samuel and Saidye Bronfman shared the belief that community involvement was vital to the development of society.
www.stfx.ca /pinstitutes/bronfman/bronfman.htm   (86 words)

  
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During the 1996 presidential campaign, the Bronfman family and their Seagrams liquor empire were the largest contributors to both the Republican and Democratic National Committees.
After all, the Bronfman family made their millions smuggling alcohol and drugs in league with Meyer Lansky, "chairman of the board" of the international crime syndicate.
Lansky is dead and gone, but the Bronfman heirs have gone "legit" and plowed their family wealth into respectable corporations such as DuPont.
www.textfiles.com /conspiracy/CN/cn10-09.txt   (623 words)

  
 Bronfman Family
They are descended from a Russian tobacco farmer, Ekiel Bronfman, who brought the family to Canada in 1889.
It was he who laid the basis of the family fortune.
EDWARD BRONFMAN (born on November 1, 1927) and PETER BRONFMAN (born on October 2, 1929) are Samuel Bronfman's nephews, the sons of his brother Allan.
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?ArticleId=J0001024   (440 words)

  
 Vivendi Universal Acquires 16.9 Million Vivendi Universal Shares Sold By Bronfman Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
This is a perfectly understandable family patrimonial decision after selling Seagram?s control and at the end of the initial lock-up period.
The family continues to be very supportive of the strategy, direction, pace, and performance of Vivendi Universal.
Following the sale of a portion of their shares to the Company, the Bronfman families and related charitable entities will hold approximately 6.1% of the Company?s shares, thus continuing to remain as the largest shareholder of Vivendi Universal.
www.vivendiuniversal.com /vu/en/press_2001/20010530_Vivendi_Universal_Acquires_169_Million_Vivendi_Universal_Shares_Sold_By_Bronfman_Family.cfm   (908 words)

  
 FOUNDATIONS/GRANTS, May 2002; Internet Prospector
The Bronfman Family Foundation is one of Canada's major private granting foundations.
Established in 1952 as a vehicle for joint family giving, the Foundation embodies the philanthropic commitment of its founders and first directors: Samuel Bronfman, a leading industrialist (builder of Seagram Liquors); his wife, Saidye Rosner Bronfman; and their children, Minda, Phyllis, Edgar and Charles.
Samuel and Saidye's daughter, Phyllis Lambert, serves as honorary president of her family's foundation and also founded and directs the Canadian Centre for Architects in Montreal (CCA), a leading museum and study center devoted to architecture.
www.internet-prospector.org /fdn0502.htm   (305 words)

  
 Power Brokers
Sam Bronfman (1891 - 1971) was the patriarch of the family dynasty, the son of Russian Jews—Mindel and Ekiel Bronfman—who migrated to the Americas seeking refuge from pogroms of Czarist Russia.
While it is doubtful that Sam foresaw the energy crisis of subsequent decades as he later claimed, there is no question that his acquisition was a remarkable financial coup—at a time when "leveraged buyouts" were a concept of the future.
Terence Robertson, the only writer known to have previously attempted a Bronfman biography (it was never published), took his own life after completing a rough draft of the manuscript.
www.jfkmontreal.com /power_brokers.htm   (2163 words)

  
 CTV.ca | Bronfman family sells large stake in Vivendi Universal
The sale involves less than two per cent of the company's stock and the Bronfmans and related charitable entities will still hold about 6.1 per cent, continuing to be the largest Vivendi shareholder.
This is a perfectly understandable family patrimonial decision after selling Seagram's control and at the end of the initial lockup period.
Entities related to my family, which continue to own approximately 33 million shares of Vivendi Universal, have committed with the company not to sell or hedge shares for the remainder of 2001, and in any case, my family has no plans for further sales.
www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20010530/ctvnews90217/CTVNewsAt11?s_name=&no_ads=   (429 words)

  
 Civilization.ca - Media
Charles R. Bronfman on behalf of the Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Family Foundation, at a gala award ceremony at the Canadian Museum of Civilization.
The Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Family Foundation, the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the Canada Council for the Arts are partners in the Award.
anniversary this year, the Saidye Bronfman Award was established by The Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Family Foundation to provide leadership in recognizing and honouring the high levels of excellence achieved by Canadian craft artists.
www.civilization.ca /media/show_pr_e.asp?ID=254   (492 words)

  
 Barra | Research + Indexes [Debug Build]
We conclude that membership in the Bronfman group of companies is probably an important variable in influencing the return of portfolios.
While the mean return is insignificant over the earliest period (0.60% per year with a t-statistic of 0.13), it is significantly negative (both adjusted and unadjusted for the factor beta) over the second period.
While our research has shown the possible existence of a common factor associated with linkage to the Bronfman family, there is no way to accurately forecast the future performance of this factor.
www.barra.com /research/barrapub/cbf-n.aspx   (1230 words)

  
 Flipside - 03/16/00 - TAXPAYER CHALLENGES GOV'T GIFT OF $700 MILLION TO WEALTHY BRONFMAN FAMILY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
One of Canada's richest families is the focus of a Federal Court battle this week as a private citizen challenges hundreds of millions in favourable tax treatment given to the Bronfman family.
Revenue Canada is in the Federal Court of Appeal defending against George Harris, a Winnipeg office worker and social activist, who is contesting a loophole that allowed $2-billion in Bronfman family assets to escape the country tax free, in 1991.
Harris' three-year-old legal fight was prompted by a controversial tax ruling by Revenue Canada in 1991 that allowed the Bronfmans to move more than $2-billion worth of Seagram Co. stock, held in two family trusts, to the United States without paying capital gains tax.
zeus.uwindsor.ca /flipside/vol3/mar00/00mr16a.htm   (653 words)

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