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On 15 March 2010, French Connection announced the sale of the brand and retail chains to OpenGate Capital for up to £5 million. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] Entering administration in 2013, the labels had six stores, supplied major stores such as John Lewis and had concessions in other department stores. [ 15 ]
The French Connection is a 1971 American neo-noir [6] action thriller film [7] directed by William Friedkin and starring Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, and Fernando Rey. The screenplay, by Ernest Tidyman , is based on Robin Moore 's 1969 nonfiction book about narcotics detectives Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso .
The French Connection in the 1960s. The first major French Connection seizure in the 1960s began in June, when an informant told a drug agent in Lebanon that Mauricio Rosal, the Guatemalan Ambassador to Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, was smuggling morphine base from Beirut to Marseille. Narcotics agents had been seizing about 200 ...
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French Connection. French Connection (also branded as FCUK or fcuk) is an English-based global retailer and wholesaler of fashion clothing, accessories and homeware. Founded in the early 1970s by Stephen Marks who also serves as chairman and chief executive, it is based in London and its parent French Connection Group PLC was formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange.
Grosso, his partner Eddie Egan, and other NYPD detectives broke up an organized crime ring in 1961 and seized 112 pounds of heroin, a record amount at the time. [1] The investigation was the subject of a book by Robin Moore and subsequent Academy Award-winning film, The French Connection, which won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Film Editing, and Best Writing in 1971.
ATLANTA (AP) — Congressman John Lewis, a civil rights icon and the last of the Big Six civil rights activists led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., died Friday at age 80. He is being ...
Marks established the French Connection women's label in 1972 – a year after the film of the same name was released. The name reportedly came about because, via a business contact in France, he managed to acquire 3,000 Indian cheesecloth shirts that could be resold in the UK at a large profit.