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Frontier Agriculture Ltd is the UK's largest crop production and grain marketing business, jointly owned by Associated British Foods and Cargill plc.. Frontier has a market share of 20% of the grain market, trades around 5,000,000 tonnes (5,500,000 tons) of grain per year, and has an annual turnover in excess of £1.5 billion.
Helen Gillian Oxenbury (born 2 June 1938) is an English illustrator and writer of children's picture books.She lives in north London. [1] She has twice won the annual Kate Greenaway Medal, the British librarians' award for illustration and been runner-up four times.
Oxberry originally joined the BBC as a personal assistant at Radio 2, having previously auditioned for a presenting role on the youth music series No Limits for BBC2. She began her broadcasting career on Radio 1, working alongside Steve Wright and in March 1990 Diane became part of Simon Mayo's on-air team for the weekday breakfast programme, where, in addition to participating in various ...
Cyrus Harris was born August 22, 1817, to Elizabeth Oxbury [a] and a man named Harris or Harrison. [1] near Pontotoc, Mississippi, on the estate of his grandmother, Molly Colbert Gunn. [b] He began his formal education at Monroe Mission School in 1827. Later, he went to an Indian School in Giles County, Tennessee. His formal schooling was only ...
He became a lecturer in economics at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1908, then from 1909 to 1914 he was a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College.A notable economist, Layton worked for the Ministry of Munitions during the First World War, then at the fledgling Economic and Financial Organization of the League of Nations.
In 1926 Nobel Industries merged with Brunner Mond, the United Alkali Company and the British Dyestuffs Corporation to form Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI). The merger, orchestrated by Alfred Mond, 1st Baron Melchett and McGowan, created one of the world's largest industrial corporations at the time.
Oxburgh Hall is a moated country house in Oxborough, Norfolk, England.The hall was built for Sir Edmund Bedingfeld who obtained a licence to crenellate in 1482. The Bedingfelds gained the manor of Oxborough through marriage in the early 15th century, and the family has lived at the hall since its construction, although ownership passed to the National Trust in 1952.
The Royal Cornwall Agricultural Show, usually called the Royal Cornwall Show, is an agricultural show organised by the Royal Cornwall Agricultural Association, which takes place at the beginning of June each year, at Wadebridge in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.