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  John Elliott
Elliott and his team built the company up through a string of acquisitions throughout the late 1970's and 1980's, including two Australian corporate icons Elders an agricultural services concern and Carlton and United Breweries now part of the Foster's Brewing Group and Australia's largest beer manufacturer.
In 1985 Elliott's company - by then called Elders IXL - played an important role in fending off the designs of Robert Holmes a Court in taking over diversified mining company BHP.
Elders bought a large share in BHP which blocked Holmes a Court's attempt to take control.
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 Modern Brewery Age: Asahi buys 19.9% stake in Elders - Asahi Breweries Ltd., Elders IXL Ltd
Officials of Elders IXL Ltd. last week announced plans for an alliance with Japan's Asahi Breweries Ltd. that is hoped to provide the needed impetus to make the Elders a more competitive player in the world market.
Currently, Elders is in the midst of a corporate overhaul that saw the sale of the company's natural resources, agribusiness and finance interests.
Elders' chairman, John Elliott, had been rumored to be looking for partners to relieve Harlin's financial predicament, and there had been speculation that Molson Cos.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
Henry Jones IXL merges with South Australian rural agency Elders Smith Goldsbrough Mort to become Elders IXL.
Elders takes over brewer CUB and consolidates into five divisions: pastoral, trading, finance, brewing and resources.
Elders and Bell agree to a standstill on BHP.
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 Elliott, John, Investment Round the World—Opportunities and Risks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
Elders IXL is also one of Australia's largest non-banking financial institutions that offers services in the United States, Europe and Southeast Asia.
Elders' sales last year amounted to a hefty $7.3 billion, its profits to approximately $180 million.
And that unique IXL name appears to be part of a new, fresh approach to the business world by the Australian industrialist.
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 GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Sponsors > Foster's
This became a public company in 1913 and expanded gradually in Australia until the 1960s when the firm began to look to the international scene.
In 1981 Foster's began to use little-known actor Paul Hogan in its advertising campaigns and as expansion began the company was taken over in 1983 by another Australian group, Elders IXL.
Elders went on a buying spree in the 1980s acquiring Britain's Courage Brewery 1986 and Canada's Carling the following year.
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The Elders investment irked the National Companies and Securities Commission, the corporate watchdog of the day, because it was engineered through an executive share plan that issued him fully paid shares as bonuses on existing scrip part-paid to 1c each.
The investment in Harlin was the subject of a long-running NCA investigation that started before Elders finance director Ken Jarrett made courtroom allegations that Elliott and other Elders executives were the secret beneficiaries of a $78 million profit on the 1986 sale of Elders convertible Eurobonds.
For a while his money remained invested with Elders' successor, Foster's Brewing, but in late 1991 he sold down his holding to get clear of the Harlin debts, pay taxes on the windfall gains and fund a new private business career as a grazier, rice grower and sometime yabby farmer.
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 The outcast - theage.com.au
He loved the significance of the IXL logo and its association with excellence, and he ran with it for 18 years, carefully retaining it as he folded Henry Jones into the business of Elders GM in 1981.
The new Elders IXL was unveiled in March 1981 as one of Australia's largest companies, with assets of more than $1 billion, a turnover in excess of $2.5 billion, and 500 subsidiaries in 14 countries.
Elliott sent Scanlon, no longer an Elders executive but still a director, into the BHP bunker to devise a rescue plan that was sensational for its time and resulted in a complex cross-shareholding arrangement that gave Elders and BHP 19 per cent of each other.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/05/08/1052280363323.html   (2427 words)

  
 Elders IXL Ltd and Grand Metropolitan PLC: a report on the merger situations
Elders IXL Ltd and Grand Metropolitan PLC: a report on the merger situations
Reports on the investigation into merger situations concerned with the bringing together of the brewing interests and certain of the on-licensed retail interests of Elders IXL Ltd and Grand Metropolitan PLC.
Similarly reports concern about increases in local concentration arising from the merges of retail interests which would also have adverse effects on the public interest, and further concludes that the benefits arising from the mergers would not be sufficient to outweigh the adverse effects identified.
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 theage.com.au - Brewing legend slumps as rice runs out of puff   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
The Elders investment irked the NCSC, the corporate watchdog of the day, because it was engineered through an executive share plan that issued him fully paid shares as bonuses on existing scrip part-paid to one cent each.
His money remained invested with the successor to Elders, Foster's Brewing, for a while, but late in 1991 he sold down his holding to get clear of the Harlin debts, pay tax on the windfall gains, and fund a new business career as a grazier, rice grower and sometime yabby farmer.
Once relieved of his duties at Elders, he took rooms in a Collins Street building that was owned by the opinion pollster Gary Morgan, a friend indeed, who cut him in on Haoma, Morgan's once-promising venture in gold mining and gold processing.
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 Bond, Bell and Holmes a Court: Bell
BHP was 'rescued' by Elders IXL in 1986: Elders bought 20% of BHP for $2 billion, BHP bought $1 billion of Elders preference shares.
Elders was a Melbourne-based conglomerate that began with jam maker Henry Jones, engulfed agribusiness Elder Smith Goldsborough Mort and - in tandem with Bond - absorbed Carlton and United Breweries (Australia's largest brewer) before taking over UK brewers and Australian wineries.
Elders IXL followed with announcement of a $1.3 billion loss.
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 June 1996 Sharing List
Christian Elder, born 1781, was a daughter of Alexander Elder and Isobel Graham.
I'm researching Elders in Paxtang, Lancaster/Dauphin Co., Pennsylvania in the 1700's and am particularly interested in the possibility that Robert Elder, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Mary (Patterson) Elder is the Robert Elder who moved to Clark County, Ohio in 1813.
We know also of a son of David Elder's, William, whose success in Veterinary studies at Edinburgh University was recorded in the local Stirling newspaper, which serves to strenghten the possibility of a family connection in the area.
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 Bulletin - Cash landing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
Among many former Elders executives, Scanlon was regarded as the key person behind Elliott when it came to structuring deals and takeovers.
While Scanlon’s fortune grew exponentially with the rise of Elders IXL, it also suffered greatly when, in 1988, the Elders team was forced by the National Companies and Securities Commission into the disastrous management takeover of the company via Harlin Holdings.
When Scanlon escaped the wreckage of Elders, he was left with a parcel of shares in a former Elders offshoot, AFP, which held an unloved grab-bag of investments spread all over the globe.
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 Modern Brewery Age: Elders' Elliott steps down as chief exec - Elders' IXL Ltd.'s John Elliott
Australian conglomerate Elders IXL Ltd. announced that chief executive John Elliott has resigned from the position, but will remain on as chairman of the company.
Peter Bartels was named the new chief executive, having previously been in charge of Elders' brewing division.
During a corporate restructuring in March, when Elders announced plans to sell its natural resources and financial-services divisions to become a singe-purpose brewer called Foster's Brewing Group, Elliott said he would step down from his position at some time.
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 EPA abstract   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
Elders IXL Ltd: finance capital and the geography of corporate restructuring
The fractions of capital now reorganised as Elders IXL Ltd have adopted over time various capital accumulation strategies, forging, in each period, distinctive linkages with the global economy.
To cope with restructuring crises during the 1970s, Elders has rapidly built a new global geography of production, trade, and investment, accompanied by extensive rationalisation and divestment in its Australian operations.
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 Environpest
At that time Elders had substantial interests in the beef industry in Australia, and had branches in all the major country towns.
Elders had abattoirs West of Toowoomba, and in Cairns and Townsville.
At this time, Elders also bought Carlton United Breweries, and Antipest had some 300 hotels throughout Queensland to inspect for termites, and treat as necessary.
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 House of Commons Hansard Debates for 1 Mar 1989
I fervently hope that at no time, or under any circumstances, will anyone be able to claim that Elders IXL and Mr.
John Dorman Elliott of Elders IXL that I do not believe that his taking over of Scottish and Newcastle Breweries is in the national interest or the public interest, and that No. 10 Downing Street is certainly not for sale.
In so far as those observations relate to a previous inquiry by the MMC into Elders IXL, I think that my hon.
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 The Advertiser: Once, twice, three times and 'looted' treasure will be gone [19apr05]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
Years after all the takeover activity had taken place, the paintings were quietly removed from their walls in Elders' Currie St offices, and spirited away to Foster's headquarters in Melbourne.
While SA can bemoan the loss of this art, there is hope that we may yet see some of it come into the possession of the Art Gallery of SA.
Several of the most significant artworks from Elders are not in the auction catalogue and there has been some speculation in the press that these may become gifts to public art collections.
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 The Gulliver Broken Hill Proprietary Company Ltd - BHP Dossier
However, 18% of the shares are still held by Elders IXL in a friendly arrangement with BHP (12).
In 1987 BHP and Utah formalised their alliance with the formation of BHP-Utah Mineral International Corp, thus becoming "one of the largest mining and minerals operations in the world", with major operations in Japan, Europe, the US and South America (13).
Two years later, thanks to the tie-up between Elders IXL and BHP in Berwick Pty Ltd, Mitsubishi obtained a sizeable stake in BHP (in a fairly complex arrangement, whereby Berwick passed on to Mitsubishi shares received as dividends from BHP as part of its 50/50 JV with Elders IXL) (14).
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Negotiations took place between two broad-visioned and generous people in Melbourne, and the then full owners, Elders IXL (successors to Henry Jones and his companies).
The latter undertook to put ALMA up on the slipway, then hand her over to Messrs Michael Wood and David Boykett, two of the governors of "Sail And Adventure", who bought her for the price of her two Gardiner engines (one 5-cylinder and the other an 8).
In 1987 a firm contract was signed with Elders IXL, who had the ship overhauled, fitted with a bow propeller and put up on a slipway, in Adelaide.
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 Ixl   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
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 footyvoice.com.au - the real voice of footy fans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
Of his varied roles including President of the Federal Liberal Party, Chairman and CEO of Elders IXL, and Chairman of the 500 Club, John Elliott rates the twenty-year presidency of his beloved Carlton Football Club as the most important.
During my twenty years we just made sure the coach and the football department were left to get on with the job.
I was a fairly prominent person at the time, prominent in the Liberal party, running Fosters and Elders IXL.
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 AVCAL Conference 2003 :: Speaker Biography - Andrew Cummins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
Prior to joining Inchcape, Andrew was a senior executive in the Fosters Brewing Group (previously Elders IXL).
He joined Elders in 1985, and led the acquisition of the Courage Breweries in the UK, and subsequently relocated to London.
He was later appointed Chief Executive of Elders Investments Limited in Hong Kong, and was responsible for the financial restructuring of Elders IXL when non-brewing assets were divested to create Fosters Brewing Group.
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 Elder Smith Goldsbrough Mort Ltd - Guide to Australian Business Records Corporate entry
Elder Smith Goldsbrough Mort Ltd (1963 - 1982)
Elder Smith Goldsbrough Mort Ltd was formed in 1963 by the merger of Elder Smith & Co Ltd and Goldsbrough Mort & Co Ltd. The company merged with Younghusband Ltd in 1971, and acquired Squatting Investment Ltd, 1974, Pitt, Son & Badgery Ltd, 1976.
In 1982 the company merged with Henry Jones IXL to form Elders IXL.Ltd.
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 Pyrford International plc
He founded Pyrford (then known as Elders Investment Management) in 1982 and relocated to London in mid-1987 as manager of the global pension funds of the Elders IXL Group (now known as Foster's Brewing).
Bruce headed the buy-out of the fund management entity from the Elders IXL Group at the beginning of 1991.
He joined Elders Finance Group in 1985 and was made an Associate Director in 1988.
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 ixl australia - Cool Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
The IXL eBBQ has had a very strong consumer response to both it's appearance and functionality.
Portraits of Australia, A selection of Prints from the Elders IXL Collection, Elders IXL Limited Australia 1986.
Hobart's old IXL factory has been transformed into an avant-garde luxury hotel.
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 Bance Nolan Ltd - About
He has in-depth experience across a wide variety of media, having begun his career in the provincial newspaper sector before spending a decade with the Irish Press Group as a regional correspondent covering the South East of Ireland.
Michael subsequently moved to Western Australia where he was employed as an editor by Elders Pastoral, a division of the Australian multi-national Elders IXL.
When he returned to Ireland, Michael continued to work as a journalist, writer and broadcaster with RTE radio and television.
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 The Merger Reference (Elders IXL Limited and Scottish & Newcastle Breweries plc) Order 1988   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
A print version is also available and is published by The Stationery Office Limited as the The Merger Reference (Elders IXL Limited and Scottish and Newcastle Breweries plc) Order 1988, ISBN 0110879651.
—(1) This Order may be cited as the Merger Reference (Elders IXL Limited and Scottish and Newcastle Breweries plc) Order 1988 and shall come into force at 3.00 p.m.
The proposed merger of Elders and Scottish and Newcastle has been referred to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission.
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 In the matter of Anzoil NL 01[2002] ATP 19 – In the Matter of Anzoil NL
Elders IXL Ltd v NCSC [1987] VR 1
These are our reasons for our decision to make a declaration of unacceptable circumstances in relation to the affairs of Anzoil NL (Anzoil) and orders under sections 657A and 657D of the Corporations Act 2001, respectively.
Perhaps more to the point, in Elders IXL Ltd v NCSC [1987] VR 1, Marks J held that parties do not propose to become associated merely because of a proposal which exists in the mind of one of them and has not been communicated to the other.
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