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	tScholars.com \| Vestey Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Vestey Group (Vestey Group Ltd) (formerly Vestey Brothers) is a privately owned UK group of companies, comprised of an international food product business (that includes meats, dairy products, frozen vegetables,bakery products, food services and trading) and significant cattle ranching and sugar cane farming interests in Brazil and Venezuela.
		Vestey Brothers also developed a business importing eggs from China, and during World War II they were a major importer of powdered egg.
		Vestey developed the country-wide Dewhurst chain of butchers shops, which was eventually disbanded in 1995 in the face of increasing competition from the supermarket chains.
	www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/Vestey (698 words)

	Angliss International - Vestey Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Angliss International Ltd is a division of Vestey Group Ltd, a family owned group of businesses based in the United Kingdom.
		Vestey Group also has interests in farming in South America.
		Vestey Group is wholly owed by the Vestey family, who have been in food distribution and farming for over 100 years.
	www.angliss-international.com /vesteygroup.htm (126 words)

	Venezuela: developments in the seizure of Vestey's Group ranch \| www.vcrisis.com
		Sources close to the Vestey Group in London have reported developments with respect to the seizure and land invasions in El Charcote, one of its cattle breeding ranches in Venezuela.
		Agroflora, the local branch representing Vestey's Group interests, filled with the Venezuelan Institute of Land (INTI) on January 23rd evidence of a) ownership of the land and b) proof that El Charcote ranch is productive, ergo not idle.
		Do bear in mind that one of the elements of the criteria applied to land confiscations is the state of idleness of the land to be seized.
	www.vcrisis.com /index.php?content=letters/200502010745 (329 words)

	Caracas takes back Vestey's ranches / World / Home - Morning Star
		Under the agreement, Agroflora, which is owned by the British Vestey Group, will turn over two of its 10 ranches in the country to the state.
		Lord Vestey, who is one of the richest men in Britain, is said to have been resigned to losing the ranches.
		Vestey and the Venezuelan government had clashed over the state's claims that some of its properties were underutilised and did not have valid ownership documents.
	www.morningstaronline.co.uk /index2.php/ex/world/caracas_takes_back_vestey_s_ranches (404 words)

	vestey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Lord Vestey, known as “Spam” to friends because his family's wealth comes from the meat trade, is one of Britain's richest men and a close friend of Prince Charles.
		Nevertheless, the Vestey Group remains one of Venezuela's largest meat producers.
		When his lands were first seized in Venezuela in 2001, Lord Vestey staged a one-man protest outside the Venezuelan embassy in London.
	www.2americhe.com /venezuela/vestey.htm (584 words)

	Venezuela's road to land reform may get bumpy \| www.azstarnet.com ®
		The vast and verdant expanse of what was once grazing land that they have taken over is one where the Vestey Group of Britain had for years operated what company officials say was one of Venezuela's most productive ranches, producing 3 million pounds of beef a year.
		The ranch, one of 14 Vestey properties in Venezuela, had been a vital part of a century-old empire famous for its string of international ranches in Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela, a shipping line and the chain of butcher shops in Britain.
		El Charcote continues to raise cattle, but if the government rules against Vestey, swaths of the ranch could be expropriated and redistributed to poor farmers, including some of those who have already occupied much of the farm.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/59106 (663 words)

	Print news - IPS Inter Press Service
		Eliécer Otaiza, the former president of INTI, stated a year ago that Vestey was unable to prove its chain of title further back than 1850, and he distributed "agrarian charters" permitting 110 families to continue to occupy plots of land on the estate.
		Vestey will receive an indemnity of 4.2 million dollars for the land and the improvements made on it.
		In exchange, INTI will certify that the other Vestey estates are "productive farms," not fallow or underutilised lands, and they will then be safe from government intervention or expropriation.
	www.ipsnews.net /print.asp?idnews=32645 (1016 words)

	www.MyCattle.com News
		Eliecer Otaiza, the former president of INTI, stated a year ago that Vestey was unable to prove its chain of title further back than 1850, and he distributed "agrarian charters" permitting 110 families to continue to occupy plots of land on the estate.
		Vestey will receive an indemnity of $4.2 million for the land and the improvements made on it.
		In exchange, INTI will certify that the other Vestey estates are "productive farms," not fallow or underutilized lands, and they will then be safe from government intervention or expropriation.
	www.mycattle.com /article_print.cfm?storyid=18435 (1026 words)

	Venezuela's Chavez caught lying about agreement with Vestey Group \| www.vcrisis.com
		The article starts with remarks purportedly made by Vestey's representative in Venezuela Agroflora, that allegedly accepted to cede part of the land owned by the company to the Chavez regime.
		When asked to comment, a Vestey Group spokesman in London said that neither Agroflora nor Vestey group had reached any agreement with either President Chavez or with INTI.
		The spokesman also expressed that Vestey remains open to reaching an agreement with the Venezuelan government on mutually acceptable terms.
	www.vcrisis.com /index.php?content=letters/200510240933 (455 words)

	The Daily Journal - Vestey says no land deal reached
		Britain’s Vestey Group denied that it had reached an agreement with President Hugo Chávez to hand parcels of farmland to rural workers as part of his land redistribution program.
		Vestey said on Monday Agroflora was still in talks with the National Land Institute (INTI), but denied the company had reached any deal, and said it would continue to challenge rulings against its farms in court.
		Authorities already plan to set up a cooperative on El Charcote cattle ranch run by Vestey in western Cojedes state, which was seen as a test case when officials moved to take it over at the start of this year.
	www.thedailyjournalonline.com /article.asp?CategoryId=10717&ArticleId=201695 (372 words)

	Mercopress
		The seizure of El Charcote, in western Cojedes belonging to Agroflora C.A., a subsidiary of Britain`s Lord Vestey group, was conducted with the aid of the National Guard and Cojedes state police.
		El Charcote 32,000 acres ranch belonged to the Vestey family since 1903 and is used for cattle ranching, though it has been occupied by some squatters in recent years.
		The Lord Vestey family made their wealth from the meat trade and is considered one of the richest families in Britain.
	www.falkland-malvinas.com /Detalle.asp?NUM=4946 (549 words)

	Breaking News Venezuela: Vestey's group ranch seized by government (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		El Charcote, a 32,000-acre cattle ranch in Cojedes state that belongs to the British Vestey Group, was one of several private country estates earmarked for "intervention" this month by pro-Chavez state Gov. Jhonny Yanez.
		The Vesteys, one of Britain's wealthiest business dynasties whose members rub shoulders with the royal family, have operated in Venezuela since the last century, raising cattle on the country's lush tropical plains.
		This weekend, Lord Vestey, 63, declined to discuss details of the land seizure other than to say: "We've been in Venezuela for over 100 years and we hope to be there for some time yet." Lord Vestey's great grandfather bought the ranch El Charcote in 1903.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1316837/posts (3393 words)

	Global Exchange : Large Ranches Targeted by Land Reform Efforts
		The first property affected by the new rules is the El Charcote ranch, operated for decades by the beef-producing company Agroflora, the local subsidiary of Britain's Vestey Group, which owns 12,950 hectares on the plains of the state of Cojedes, located northwest of the Orinoco River and 200 kms southwest of Caracas.
		The Vestey Group has major cattle ranching and sugar cane farming interests in Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela, as well as an international food product business.
		Environmental groups had expressed concern that the land reform efforts would lead to the depredation of areas in need of protection.
	www.globalexchange.org /countries/americas/venezuela/2919.html (1160 words)

	New Zealand Shipping On line History Comments Year 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		There are two interest groups, one based in New Zealand and one in UK for people who have been associated with NZSC.
		Lord Vestey who owned the Weddell supermarket chain in the UK, was the owner of NZSC up until 1990.
		Vestey used his substantial land holdings in Australia, NZ, Argentina in conjunction with his meat companies to move his frozen meat products to the UK..
	www.australiatrade.com.au /Shipping/History/Comments/Archives/1999.htm (1454 words)

	A Visit to Lord Vestey's Ranch in Venezuela
		El Charcote ranch is a 12,950 hectare piece of land which Agroflora, a subsidiary of the Vestey Group, claims to own.
		The Vestey Group is vastly wealthy (Lord Vestey is the 56th richest person in the UK) and owns 13 farms in Venezuela alone, as well as land across the whole of South America.
		One group of campesinos I spoke to told me that they had been camping outside the INTI office for weeks as a protest.
	www.handsoffvenezuela.org /lord_vestey_ranch.htm (2085 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| UK firm faces Venezuelan land row
		Officials in Cojedes state said on Friday that farmland owned by a subsidiary of the Vestey Group would be taken and used to settle poor farmers.
		The Vestey Group said it had not been informed of any planned seizure.
		The Vestey Group said it had owned the land since 1920 and would co-operate fully with the authorities.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/business/4297427.stm (465 words)

	UK Company Defends Land Rights in Venezuela Reform : Thunderbay IMC
		CARACAS, Venezuela — Representatives of Britain's Vestey Group, whose large Venezuelan cattle ranch is targeted in a government land reform drive, Wednesday rejected charges that it left land idle and illegally held public property.
		Agroflora, the Vestey subsidiary that operates El Charcote in central Cojedes state, said it would welcome the measure to prove it owned the land and to show that pro-Chavez squatters had taken over parts of its property.
		Vestey, a privately owned British company, has extensive cattle ranching operations in Latin America.
	thunderbay.indymedia.org /news/2005/01/17593.php?theme=2 (485 words)

	Daily News - eluniversal.com
		RAQUEL BARREIRO C. British Vestey Group sold ranch El Charcote, in Cojedes state, to the Venezuelan Government for USD 4.1 million, the Agriculture and Lands minister Elías Jaua informed.
		Jaua, together with the president of the National Lands Institute (INTI), Richard Vivas, and representatives for Vestey Group, explained the British corporation also decided to donate ranch San Pablo Paeño, in Apure state, to the Venezuelan State.
		Jesper Scheel Edelmann, a member of Vestey Group, said they were always willing to cooperate with INTI to solve this dispute.
	english.eluniversal.com /2006/03/23/en_eco_art_23A686125.shtml (521 words)

	Venezuelan Authorities “Intervene” in British Cattle Ranch [Voltaire]
		The large number of National Guard troops and police officers that participated in the action were there to prevent any outbreaks of violence between the ranchers and a group of farmers who have been occupying a large part of the ranch for the past four years.
		In talking about the intervention, Governor Yánez referred to the Vestey Group as the “presumed owners.” A commission has now been set up to investigate the history of the Charcote land title and whether all of the land is actually being used.
		According to Pimentel, the land definitely does not belong to the Vestey Group because it was bought by Venezuela’s dictator Juan Vicente Gomez in 1936.
	www.voltairenet.org /article123514.html (927 words)

	UK & European - The Team (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Michael Rosehil is a qualified accountant who has spent many years working within the Lewis Trust Group and has been finance director of UK and European Investments for 10 years.
		Paul previously spent ten years with Vestey Estates overseeing the management both of the operational properties of the Vestey Group’s UK trading companies and a commercial property investment portfolio.
		George Fairbairn joined the company in November 2005 and is jointly responsible for management of the UK investment portfolio and the management of the group's German portfolio.
	www.ukandeuropean.co.uk /theteam.html (478 words)

	M&A International Inc.
		Angliss International Ltd (www.angliss-international.com), a division of Vestey Group Ltd, is a family-owned group of businesses based in the United Kingdom.
		Angliss International Group was established in 1997, and is now made up of 30 companies and businesses with a turnover of €670 million.
		This transaction proves that private shareholders can still enjoy staying with their company and continue to take responsibility – despite selling the vast majority of their shares to an investor – if there is a good personal fit between the parties.
	www.mergers.net /tombstones/dealJanuary2006.htm (272 words)

	Worldandnation: Venezuela moves on land plan
		The confiscation, accounting for more than a third of the Vestey Group's 32,000-acre El Charcote cattle ranch, surprised the owners who said they had received no notification.
		The Vestey Group is one of the largest meat producers in Venezuela and owns several large Venezuelan cattle ranches.
		The Vestey Group says it has invested large amounts of money over the years in enhancing productivity through cross breeding, artificial insemination and other methods, which have benefited the industry.
	www.sptimes.com /2005/03/24/Worldandnation/Venezuela_moves_on_la.shtml (406 words)

	Derek Vestey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir Derek Vestey, 2nd Baronet (June 4, 1914 – June 30, 2005) was a nephew of William Vestey, 1st Baron Vestey, founder of the Vestey Group.
		Though not involved in the running of the family business (which made its fortune in meat supply and processing), Sir Derek was a leading beneficiary of the tax avoidance trusts set up in 1919 to protect the family's wealth.
		"Vestey family interests are brought out of cold storage", The Times, August 11, 1999.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Derek_Vestey (121 words)

	Booman Tribune ~ A Progressive Community
		Lord Vestey, Chairman of Vestey Group Limited, was served with a subpoena by Helen Steel and was forced to come to court to be questioned.
		In 1983 he was Director of the Vestey family group of companies, who had supplied McDonald's UK with the Brazilian beef from the Vestey plant at Barretos (in the state of Sao Paulo).
		Lord Vestey delivered the requested letter in which he stated that the cattle supplied to the meat plant were not from any rainforest region.
	www.boomantribune.com /story/2005/3/24/63353/7342 (2322 words)

	The Militant - January 25, 2005 -- Venezuela gov’t starts seizing idle farm land
		The ranch is the property of the Vestey Group, owned by Sam Vestey, a British food magnate.
		Sam Vestey, whose family is among the wealthiest in the United Kingdom, told the Financial Times, “We’ve been in Venezuela for just over 100 years and we hope to be there for some time yet.” His great grandfather had bought the land in 1903, Vestey claimed.
		The Vestey Group has extensive land holdings and cattle ranches in Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela.
	www.themilitant.com /2005/6903/690301.html (2598 words)

	alternative, antiwar world news
		The ranch, which is set in rich cattle-rearing land close to the Venezuelan capital of Caracas, is owned by Lord Vestey, whose personal wealth from his family's food empire is estimated at £750 million.
		The family's food empire, once the biggest family-owned multinational in the world, was founded in 1897, when brothers William and Edmund began importing frozen eggs from China and frozen beef from Australia.
		The family's problems in South America have caused the value of the Vestey Group to fall in recent years.
	margotbworldnews.com /archive/2005January/Jan8/landgrab.html (737 words)

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