Sentence examples for goods tycoon from inspiring English sources

Harvey Nichols The upmarket department store loved by Absolutely Fabulous' fashionistas, has been rejuvenated since it was bought by Hong Kong luxury goods tycoon Dickson Poon in 1991.

That put him not far behind Eli Broad, the billionaire U.S. businessman and museum founder; Dasha Zhukova, the Russian gallerist and oligarch's girlfriend; and François-Henri Pinault, the luxury goods tycoon and owner of Christie's auction house.

Even though Hank is a fallen business giant, he isn't part of a larger social tableau: he's a self-made sporting goods tycoon who went afoul of his board of directors, not someone who went astray in the subprime market.

"Hank" on ABC stars Kelsey Grammer as a self-made sporting goods tycoon who loses his fortune and slinks back to his native Virginia to start over, and even that show relies on a 1980s economic scenario.

Both protests aimed to influence Bernard Arnault, a luxury-goods tycoon who is France's richest man but to very different ends.

Some of them even collected art, the most acquisitive being William T. Evans, a dry-goods tycoon who had moved there from New York in 1900.

And he dislikes Mr Mestrallet's plan to sell or reduce Suez's stakes in Belgian gas companies to win approval for the merger from the European Union (EU), because it makes the merger less attractive for GDF.Reports last week of a pact between Enel and François Pinault, a retail and luxury-goods tycoon, added to the uncertainty.

Just ask Italy's Benetton family or Bernard Arnault, the French luxury-goods tycoon whose Europatweb fund suffered a loss reported at $10 million on boo.com, the European fashion site that collapsed after burning through more than $100 million to build an online retail website that didn't work.

He made his name negotiating gold-plated real estate deals, but when it comes to selling other goods, the tycoon doesn't always have the Midas touch.

The prime minister insisted his personal relations with the media tycoon were good, although he appeared to accept this would not stop the paper campaigning against Labour.

Good-naturedly amused by Luce tycoon ambitions was Lila Hotz, of Chicago, whom he married there on Dec. 22 , 1923