intelligence with a liking for the playboy lifestyle and maintained close contacts with international bankers and leading Italian politicians. He continued the company’s association with the Juventus football

businesses. Its success led him to cofound the Kharkov Trade Bank (which became the third largest trade bank in the Empire) and the Kharkov Land Bank. Altschewskyj saw opportunities for economic development [...] Oleksij Altschewskyj was a Ukrainian banker and industrialist who created companies that developed large-scale coal mines, railways and steelworks in the Donbas basin in the late 19th century, making it [...] merchant and in 1862 he moved to Kharkiv. In 1866, he founded one of the first private commercial banks in the Russian Empire, the Kharkiv Mutual Credit Society, which was unusual in making short-term loans

In the 19th century, the entrepreneur Guillem d‘Areny-Plandolit was also an active merchant and banker. He also played an important role in the reforms of 1866 that granted the common people a modest [...] of the structure of Andorra’s economy that Julià Reig i Ribó, a son of the founder, also launched a bank and a real estate enterprise in the 1950s. In the latter half of the 20 th century a number of the [...] serves as a museum. Labour had to be recruited from Spain for its construction, roads were built, banks and department stores were founded. From the 1950s on, development acquired a momentum all its own

lands of northwest Europe. In the 18th century around a thousand mills were standing alongside the banks of the River Zaan, near the trading centre of Amsterdam. They were used to process timber, flour and

production developed in the Vorarlberg region, and in Vienna – where the Rothschilds founded the merchant bank "Credit-Anstalt für Handel und Gewerbe" in 1855 – the manufacturing of rail cars and locomotives

houses small and large events. Outdoor enthusiasts may complete the visit by taking a walk along the banks of the river Traun to the magnificent Gschröff historic power station.

difficult trading conditions the government required the repayment of its loans and Bauwens was made bankrupt. He died in Paris in 1822. A statue of him was put up in Ghent in 1885 in the square named after

synthesising acetylsalicylic acid, which was a modification of a natural substance derived from willow bank, long used in folk medicine, an unstable form of which had been prepared by the Frenchman Charles [...] established by Dr Karl Leverkus (1804-89) north of Cologne, and large tracts of adjacent land along the banks of the River Rhine. The factory was greatly expanded from 1895, and in 1912 the headquarters of the

the umbrella of the "Arcelor-Mittal" group. In 1822, the "Société Générale", the first joint-stock bank, was founded and soon afterwards the Banque de Belgique. Both provided targeted investment capital [...] push began after independence in 1830. Brussels was modernised, and industrial firms settled on the banks of the Senne. Another new canal contributed to this, on which coal ships could travel from Charleroi [...] Montagne" had begun producing zinc in 1837. In the coal mines, which were largely in the hands of French bankers, production rose steadily, but at the same time the area - especially the "Borinage" in the far west

on the French Revolution and the Napeolonic Empire, but his later studies focussed more broadly on banks, business and the social and economic elites of the nineteenth century. He had a particular interest

alongside around 200 others. Boada’s later roles included the presidencies of the Bank of Madrid, the Catalan development bank and Ford Spain. At INH (Instituto Nacional de Hidrocarburos) from 1981 to 1985

and important public buildings, including the Ministry of Finance in Rome. It also had interests in banks, gas supply, the operation of railways and the expansion of the ports of Genoa and Palermo. By 1881

and made her maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York in 1845. The company that owned her became bankrupt after she ran ashore in Northern Ireland in 1846. She is now conserved in Bristol. The much larger

bridge and chimney. Nearby are the charging house, a restored waterwheel for blowing the furnace, a bank of ore-calcining kilns and the ruins of a charcoal store and a limekiln. Blacksmiths demonstrate their

retrospective takes us back to the time of the great factory foundations, recounts nationalisation, bankruptcy and unemployment, and ends with the revival of local factories in the more recent past. Last but

mastic trees. The museum is a site of the Museum Network of the Cultural Foundation of the Piraeus Bank Group (PIOP). The cultivation of mastic on Chios was recognised by UNESCO in 2014 as a unique natural

manufacturer Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA (CASA). His many other business interests included the bank of Bilbao, the Basque-Asturias railway begun by his father, coal mines, foundries and construction

cars were produced on 19 April 1934. The cost of development of the new model drove the company to bankruptcy and it was taken over by the Michelin rubber company before the end of 1934. André Citroën died

added forges, foundries and engineering shops forming an integrated complex extending 5 km along the banks of the River Meuse. The works specialised initially in supplying railway companies with rails, locomotives

sector in 1972 and the company continued as a large-scale travel agency until 2018, when it declared bankruptcy. It gave up publishing the Continental Timetable in 2013, although publication as the European