Payen, the son of an industrialist, was put in charge of a borax-refining plant in 1815.
Buildings on the main thoroughfare, Karl-Heine-Strasse – it's named after the 19th-century industrialist who put the district on the map – have almost all been renovated, but without losing their sense of history.
Kestrel Venture Management, Alta Communications and an outfit controlled by Pittsburgh industrialist Henry Hillman, put up a combined $1 million in exchange for a 33% stake in ConneXus.
"One day he tells the bankers they're guilty of nothing, and later he tells the industrialists he'll put the bankers in jail.
Politicians, bankers, industrialists and commentators put aside their differences to praise a deal that promises to break the mould of Italy's hopelessly backward-looking retail banks.Italians are right to be cracking open the Asti.
Crippled Industries: You have put your leading industrialists into concentration camps.
Those were the same years that the museum's founder, the Pittsburgh industrialist Henry Clay Frick, was putting together his own collection of art and objects from the early Renaissance through the end of the 19th century.
