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Melrose Industries was founded in 2003 by David Roper, Christopher Miller and Simon Peckham. In terms of business practices, the company aimed to buy and turn around underperforming businesses. Melrose has acquired, and in some cases also sold numerous engineering companies, including Dynacast, McKechnie, FKI, Elster, Nortek, and GKN.
In 2002 Roper was selected as a Rhodes Scholar, and began study at University College, Oxford for a Doctoral program in mathematics with a focus on String Theory and quantum mechanics. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] During his doctoral program, he was selected for a National Defense Science and Engineering Fellowship. [ 4 ]
Robson Rhodes was the 12th largest accountancy firm in the UK, with revenues of £85.5 million for the year ending 30 April 2006, and average revenue per partner of £1.007 million. However, despite the size of its turnover the firm was loss-making (£3.8m loss in 2006), and heavily in debt (£45m including partner debts). [ 1 ]
George D. Roper became the sole owner of the Van Wie Gas Stove company after the company's debts were paid off on September 1, 1894.10 days later, a fire destroyed the facility. The factory was rebuilt and renamed as the Eclipse Gas Stove Company, and later expanded to include the Trahern Pump Company, found in 1857 and acquired in 1906.
Roper Technologies, American industrial company; Roper-Logan-Tierney model of nursing; USS Roper (DD-147), an American navy ship; Roper, a style of cowboy boot with a short heel and round toe; Ropers, mascots of the Will Rogers High School; Roper, a Whirlpool Corporation brand of household appliances; Roper (band), an American Christian pop ...
Ian Roper Taylor (7 February 1956 – 8 June 2020) was a British businessman and philanthropist who was chairman and CEO of The Vitol Group, the world's largest independent energy trader. He was also the majority shareholder in Harris Tweed Hebrides, the primary producer of Harris Tweed cloth, which he helped to rescue in 2005.
Roderick Arthur William Rhodes (born 15 August 1944), [1] usually cited as R. A. W. Rhodes, is a British professor of political science. Rod Rhodes is professor of government at the University of Southampton (UK) and director of the Centre for Political Ethnography. He is also emeritus professor of politics at the University of Newcastle (UK).
The Roper family is an English aristocratic family that can be traced back to 1066 following the Norman Conquest by residing in Derbyshire. [3] Members of the family have held three hereditary titles: Viscount Baltinglass , Baron Dacre , and Baron Teynham.