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The Globe and Mail. The Woodbridge Company Limited is a Canadian private holding company based in Toronto, Ontario. It is the primary investment vehicle for members of the family of the late Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet. [1] David W. Binet has been the president and chief executive officer of the company since 2012.
The company was founded in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and maintains its headquarters at 19 Duncan Street there. [5] Thomson Reuters was created by the Thomson Corporation's purchase of the British company Reuters Group on 17 April 2008. [6] It is majority-owned by The Woodbridge Company, a holding company for the Thomson family of Canada. [7]
The Thomson Corporation was one of the world's largest information companies. It was established in 1989 following a merger between International Thomson Organization and Thomson Newspapers. [1] In 2008, it purchased Reuters Group to form Thomson Reuters. The Thomson Corporation was active in financial services, healthcare sectors, law, science ...
Upper Canada College. Alma mater. Selwyn College, Cambridge (MA) David Kenneth Roy Thomson, 3rd Baron Thomson of Fleet (born 12 June 1957), is a Canadian/British [2][3][4] hereditary peer and media magnate. [5][1][6] Upon the death of his father in 2006, Thomson became the chairman of Thomson Corporation and also inherited his father's British ...
October 15, 1970 [1] Designated NHL. November 28, 1972 [2] Old New-Gate Prison is a former prison and mine site on New-Gate Road in East Granby, Connecticut. It is now operated by the state of Connecticut as the Old New-Gate Prison & Copper Mine Archaeological Preserve. Previously closed for restoration since 2009, it was re-opened on July 14 ...
William Geoffrey Beattie (born 1960) is a Canadian business executive and former lawyer. He received his law degree from the University of Western Ontario in 1984 [3] and served as a partner in the Toronto law firm Torys LLP before joining The Woodbridge Company, where he served as president from 1998 through December 2012. [4]
On 28 January 2019, Woodbridge and its 281 related companies ordered by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida to pay $892 million in disgorgement, former CEO Robert Shapiro was ordered to pay a $100 million civil penalty and to disgorge more than $20 million in ill-gotten gains and interest.
Woodbridge Group LLC was founded by Robert M. Koenig in 1993. [1] In 2008, the company started WG Securities LLC and opened its European office in the Netherlands. [2] In 2012, an office was opened in São Paulo, Brazil. [3] In 2014, Woodbridge International expanded its operations to Frankfurt, Germany. [4]