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 | | Frere is already the biggest shareholder in another large French corporation, the utilities group Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux, and his sprawling empire owns half of CLT-Ufa, Europes biggest commercial broadcaster. |
 | | He has held, and sold, large chunks of half a dozen Belgian flagshipsPetroFina, Banque Bruxelles Lambert, the number three bank, Royale Belge, the number two insurer, Tractebel, the energy group. |
 | | Frere used his handsome profit, in 1982, to take control of Groupe Bruxelles Lambert, the holding company second only to the mighty Societe Generale de Belgique. |
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