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  Bettencourt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bettencourt as a surname is a common family name amongst those of French descent.
Liliane Bettencourt, richest person in France and majority shareholder of L'Oréal, the world's leading company in cosmetics and beauty.
Jean de Béthencourt, Norman/French explorer who, in 1402, led an expedition to the Canary Islands.
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 Liliane Bettencourt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Liliane Bettencourt (born 21 October 1922) is one of the richest people in France and one of the wealthiest people in the world and the wealthiest woman living.
Bettencourt's family has a reputation for secrecy, partly due to controversy surrounding her father's connection with La Cagoule, a violent French fascist-leaning and anti-communist group.
She created the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation, which awards the "Liliane Bettencourt Prize for Life Sciences" to a European researcher under the age of forty-five.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liliane_Bettencourt   (240 words)

  
 Top 10 Richest Women - #3
Liliane Bettencourt (born 21 October 1922) is the richest person in France and one of the wealthiest people in the world.
The company ownership breakdown: 27.5% by Liliane Bettencourt, 26.4% by Nestle, the remaining 46.1% are publicly traded.
Bettencourt's family has a reputation for secrecy, partially due to controversy surrounding her father's connection with La Cagoule, a violent French fascist-leaning and anti-communist group.
www.richestwomen.info /3.php   (185 words)

  
 

Nestlé-L'Oréal Relationship Put on a New Basis

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The Bettencourt family and Nestlé are contractually committed not to modify their respective stakes for an agreed period.
Liliane Bettencourt and her family, and Nestlé, have agreed to propose the absorption of Gesparal by L’Oréal.
The Bettencourt family and Nestlé have agreed to keep all of their L’Oréal shares for a period of 5 years, beginning with the date of this shareholders meeting.
www.nestle.com /Template/ExportToOffice.aspx?PressGUID={482F7D84-B9C1-41A9-9F04-C2930479A007}   (990 words)

  
 Nestlé to Simplify Its Holding in L’Oréal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Nestlé and the Bettencourt family combined in the form of the Gesparal Holding Company already held a 53 percent stake of L'Oréal and 71 percent of the voting rights.
For years, Liliane Bettencourt, daughter of L'Oréal's founder, made clear that she was determined to remain the majority shareholder in the Gesparal Holding Company.
Bettencourt, 82, agreed with Nestlé that the shareholding structure needed to be updated to a clearer form befitting the world's biggest cosmetics company.
www.nytimes.com /2004/02/05/business/worldbusiness/05nestle.html?ex=1391317200&en=9bfbfa3f4307cbb5&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND   (716 words)

  
 L'oreal (Irs) Nestle-L'Oreal relationship
Liliane Bettencourt and her family, and Nestle, have agreed to propose the absorption of Gesparal by L'Oreal.
However, should there be a public tender offer for L'Oreal shares by a third party, the Bettencourt family and Nestle would have the right to tender their shares or to make a counter-offer.
Bettencourt, and in any case during a period of at least 3 years, starting from the date of this shareholders meeting.
www.advfn.com /news_Nestle-L-Oreal-relationship_6629632.html   (1016 words)

  
 Liliane Bettencourt, The World's Richest People - Forbes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
She is daughter of L'Oreal founder Eugene Schueller, a man who is said to have a checkered past with wartime ties to the Nazi regime.
Liliane retains a controlling stake in the cosmetics giant.
Pet cause: the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation, which awards the Liliane Bettencourt Prize for Life Sciences to a European researcher under the age of 45.
www.forbes.com /lists/2006/10/F6EZ.html   (185 words)

  
 classical music - andante - accentus
Hailed by critics from the time of their first recording in 1994 of secular choral music by Poulenc and Ravel (Prix de l'Académie du Disque Lyrique and chosen as a "Must" by the Belgian magazine Compact), Accentus was awarded the Liliane Bettencourt prize by the Académie des Beaux Arts.
Accentus received the Grand Prix Radio Classique de la Découverte in 2001 and was named ensemble of the year in the 9th Victoires de la Musique Classique in 2002.
Accentus is associated with Léonard da Vinci/Opéra de Rouen with the support of the City of Rouen, the region and Direction Régional des Affaires Culturelles Haute-Normandie.
www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=23283   (437 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Liliane Bettencourt's father, Eugenge Schueller, who founded L'Oreal, was an activist in a pre-WWII right nationalist political group, with anti-semite ideas.
Bettencourt, who is 75, first surfaced in French newspapers...
Bettancourt was awarded the Croix de Guerre and a Resistance medal after the war.
www.jewishtribalreview.org /bettencourt.htm   (764 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Liliane de Bettencourt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Liliane de Bettencourt is a French fashion designer, and the richest woman in the world.
She is the majority owner of L'Oréal, with a net worth of approximately $14 billion (American).
Images, some of which are used under the doctrine of Fair use or used with permission, may not be available.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Liliane_de_Bettencourt   (136 words)

  
 Prix Bettencourt
The Bettencourt Schueller Foundation turned out in full force and demonstrated their full support and genuine patronage towards us.
The award ceremony orchestrated by the journalist Philippe Lefait began at 6.30pm with a speech by François Erlenbach, deputy to the Minister, patronage project leader and Edouard de Royère, President of the Heritiage Foundation and President of the Jury.
A few words from Liliane Bettencourt closed the ceremony, confiding her fascination for such skilled craftsmanship : " The relationship between conception of thought and workmanship of hand is a true mystery.
www.bennica-knives.com /prix_bettencbis_en.htm   (292 words)

  
 Euronext
Liliane Bettencourt and her family, and Nestlé;, have agreed to propose the absorption of Gesparal by L’Oréal.
The Bettencourt family and Nestlé; own respectively, 51% and 49% of Gesparal.
The extraordinary development of L’Oréal over the last 30 years during which Gesparal was its majority shareholder enabled it to become the world leader in its field.
www.euronext.com /news/companypressrelease/0,4616,1700631_11894_128796269,00.html   (737 words)

  
 French culture | music : events: Accentus Chamber Choir US Tour dates November 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
The group has a growing discography which was inaugurated with a 1994 recording of choral works by Poulenc and Ravel, winner of the Prix de l'Académie du Disque Lyrique and the "Must" de Compact.
Accentus was also nominated at the 1996 Victoires de la Musique for their recording of songs and ballads by Brahms and Schumann.
In 1995, Accentus received the Liliane Bettencourt Prize from the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
www.frenchculture.org /music/events/accentus   (324 words)

  
 Nestlé acquiring quarter of L'Oréal - Los Angeles Business from bizjournals:
Liliane Bettencourt, the daughter of L'Oréal founder, will remain the largest shareholder of L'Oréal under an agreement by the Bettencourts and Nestlé; not to increase their stake in the company during her lifetime or a minimum of three years.
Under other terms of the agreement, the Bettencourts and Nestlé; have agreed to keep all of their L'Oréal shares for five years, beginning April 29, the date of the shareholders meeting.
However, the Bettencourts and Nestlé; have the right to tender their shares or to make a counter-offer as part of a public tender offer by a third party.
www.bizjournals.com /losangeles/stories/2004/02/02/daily31.html   (510 words)

  
 ’Cos he’s worth it   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Along the way he has made L’Oréal’s principal shareholder, Liliane Bettencourt, one of the world’s richest women, with a personal fortune of around €11bn.
In February, two major shareholders, Nestlé; and the Bettencourt family, agreed to dissolve Gesparal, the holding company that controlled the group and held 53.8% of the capital and 71.7% of voting rights.
The agreement prevents Nestlé; and the Bettencourt family from increasing their holdings in L’Oréal over at least the next three years, and neither party can buy any further shares until Liliane Bettencourt dies.
www.europeanbusiness.eu.com /features/2004/dec/loreal.html   (1567 words)

  
 Hair and hairdressing News
The Hairdressing-L'Oreal's Liliane Bettencourt ranked 13th of top list of Forbes' billionaires.
Liliane Bettencourt remains adamant about keeping most of the company in private hands to ensure "stability." Despite limited pressure to reform L'Oreal's ownership structure, she will likely get her way.
Bettencourt controls L'Oreal via a 51% stake in Gesparal, a holding company that owns 53.7% of L'Oreal.
www.go4hc.com /press/newslm.htm   (489 words)

  
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Established in 1990 by Mme Liliane Bettencourt and her Academician husband, this prize of 250 000 francs (Ï38000) is awarded alternately to a provincial and a Paris chorale.
The winning ensemble is invited to perform at the annual public meeting of the Académie, where the prize is officially presented.
It is alternately awarded to a painter and a sculptor, who should either be French or have been resident in France for at least two years.
www.academie-des-beaux-arts.fr /uk/prix/concecration.htm   (251 words)

  
 Bloomberg.com: Europe
Nestle, based in Vevey, Switzerland, currently owns 49 percent of Gesparal, while billionaire Liliane Bettencourt and her family have 51 percent.
``This new agreement confirms the attachment and confidence we both have for L'Oreal,'' Liliane Bettencourt, the daughter of L'Oreal's founder, said in a prepared statement.
Under a new agreement, both Nestle and the Bettencourts commit to holding their stakes for five years from the moment the accord is approved by L'Oreal shareholders, the French company said.
quote.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000085&refer=europe&sid=aBFpkM8A4DHg   (334 words)

  
 Jacques-samuel Bernard ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Samuel Bernard, Table succinte des ornements exterieur de l"escue d"armes selon les regles des ancienne herauds, 1647
Liliane Bettencourt Prize The Liliane Bettencourt Prize for l'intelligence de la main 2001 was awarded to the glass sculptor Bernard Dejonghe.
Eight selected artists are given access to the buildings throughout the restoration process, creating art that reinterprets the spaces while giving Museum visitors visual access to the transforming work that is going on behind closed doors.
www.wwar.com /masters/b/bernard-jacques-samuel.html   (1345 words)

  
 Olivier Shneebeli is Director of Les Pages and les Chantres de la Chapelle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Olivier Schneebeli is Director of Les Pages and les Chantres de la Chapelle, the choir of the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles.
Schneebeli's direction, Les Pages and les Chantres de la Chapelle has performed and recorded works by Du Mont, Rameau, and Clérambault, and has collaborated and recorded with distinguished conductors such as William Christie, Jean-Claude Malgoire, and Ton Koopman.
In recognition of the choir's efforts to familiarize the public with early French music, in 1997 Les Pages and les Chantres de la Chapelle received the Liliane Bettencourt Prize for Choral Singing, given by the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
www.oberlin.edu /royer-op/Bios/olivier_shneebeli.htm   (238 words)

  
 sanofi-aventis : Mandatory Publication pursuant to Sections 35 sub-sec. 1, 10 sub-sec. 3 Securities Acquisition and ...
Following the acquisition of the majority participation in Aventis these voting rights in Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft are now attributed to Sanofi-Aventis pursuant to Section 30 sub-sec.
The 548,451,852 shares or 98.09% of the voting rights in Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft held by Aventis are also attributed to each of Total, L’Oréal, Téthys SAS, Ms Liliane Bettencourt, Mr André Bettencourt, Ms Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, Mr Jean-Pierre Meyers and Nestlé S.A. pursuant to Section 30 sub-sec.
This announcement was submitted to the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht; BaFin) and to the French Authority for Financial Markets (Autorité des Marchés Financiers; AMF) prior to the publication of this announcement pursuant to Sections 35 sub-sec.
en.sanofi-aventis.com /press/ppc_1516.asp   (779 words)

  
 Forbes.com: Forbes World's Richest People 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Inherited a controlling stake in L'Oréal in 1957 from her father, the company's founder.
As discreet as she is rich, Bettencourt shuns the press.
Part of the reason may be an impressive number of skeletons in the family closet, most relating to the family's intimate association with extreme-right political groups in Vichy France.
www.forbes.com /finance/lists/10/2004/LIR.jhtml?passListId=10&passYear=2004&passListType=Person&uniqueId=F6EZ&datatype=Person   (421 words)

  
 Father's Past Haunts French Billionaire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
France's richest resident, cosmetics heiress Liliane Bettencourt, is in desperate need of some concealer.
The 82-year-old controlling shareholder in L'Oreal, worth some $17.2 billion, is fending off allegations of ugly behavior by her father, L'Oreal founder and alleged Nazi sympathizer Eugene Schueller.
Her father died in Geneva in 1945.) According to the complaint, in 1954, BGV sold the plot of land once housing the Rosenfelder family's Victorian estate (the house was bombed during the war) to Schueller — Bettencourt was 31 at the time — though he knew it had been confiscated from its Jewish owners.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1365952/posts   (809 words)

  
 Wired News: The Billionaires' Club
The top 10 "Working Rich" is rounded out by Saudi investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Alsaud, who is worth $15 billion, Germany's retailing leaders Theo and Karl Albrecht and family ($13.6 billion), and Hong Kong real estate magnate Li Ka-shing ($12.7 billion).
The world's wealthiest woman is France's Liliane Bettencourt, whose net worth is $13.9 billion,
However, Bettencourt is not included in the "Working Rich" list, but as a "Coupon Clipper," because she is living off inherited wealth and not actively working.
www.wired.com /news/business/1,20314-0.html   (742 words)

  
 Choeur de Chambre Accentus (Chamber Choir) - Short History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Chœur de Chambre Accentus (Accentus Chamber Choir) (= ACC) was founded in 1991 by the French chorus master Laurence Equilbey.
Accentus also frequently performs under Swedish guest conductor Eric Ericson, and frequently works with l'Ensemble Intercontemporain, l'Orchestre de Paris et le Théâtre du Châtelet, under conductors Pierre Boulez, Christoph Eschenbach, David Robertson, and Jonathan Nott.
Accentus was thrilled to make its USA debut with an 11 city tour in November 2000.
www.bach-cantatas.com /Bio/ACC.htm   (358 words)

  
 Retainers, Mandarins, the Rich and the Super-Rich   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Those inclined to blame the concentration of wealth in "the rich" for many of society's problems often disagree about exactly who "the rich" are.
Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Paul Allen, Liliane Bettencourt, -- no question, but these are the most extreme examples.
By global standards a married couple in the USA with three kids, a two-bedroom apartment and an eight-year old car could be considered "rich".
members.tripod.com /~doggo/doggretainers.html   (4043 words)

  
 CNN.com - Europe's wealthy move up rich list - March 1, 2002
At Number 13 is Liliane Bettencourt ($14.9 billion) owner of L'Oreal and the richest person in France.
The 79-year-old daughter of the firm's founder Eugene Schueller insists on keeping most of the company in private hands to ensure "stability."
Other prominent Europeans include Spanish fashio guru Amancio Ortega, founder of Zara (25th, $9.1 billion), biotech dynasty Ernesto Bertarelli and family of Switzerland (31st, $8.4 billion), and the Netherlands' Charlene de Carvalho (76th, $4.3 billion) who inherited control of the Heineken empire from her father when he died in January.
archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/03/01/forbes/index.html   (947 words)

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