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Mark Fletcher, 2005. Mark Fletcher is an American entrepreneur. He was the founder and CEO of the news aggregator website, Bloglines, and the Vice President of Ask.com until June 2006. [1] Ask Jeeves acquired Bloglines on 8 February 2005. [2] On September 23, 2014 Fletcher launched Groups.io in beta. [3]
As a hobby business, Fletcher Jones became involved in the breeding and racing of thoroughbred horses. In 1966, he acquired a 3,912-acre (15.83 km 2) property near Santa Ynez, California that he named Westerly Stud Farms. In addition to a large home, he built a U-shaped main barn, breeding sheds, and other service buildings, as well as a half ...
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In the late 1940s he began to turn his business into a co-operative, named Fletcher Jones & Staff Pty Ltd. Initially the Jones family had a two-thirds interest and the staff one-third, but the balance gradually swung so that by the 1970s the staff held over 50 per cent of the shares. From the mid-1950s, the business also made women's attire.
Premium Brands was founded in 1917 as Fletcher Limited. [2] It was renamed Fletcher Fine Foods in 1984. [2] In 2000, the company re-branded to Premium Brands. [3] The company sold its Fletcher's business in 2004. [3]
Fletcher had many other business interests, including the Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), the Tasman Pulp and Paper Company, and New Zealand Paper Mills. Fletcher Senior was appointed a Knight Bachelor , for public services, in the 1946 New Year Honours , [ 10 ] [ 11 ] and was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal in 1953.
"[The Centaur Company is] probably the largest proprietary medicine concern in the country, if not in the world. Mr. Fletcher's name has become so identified with the product of the company that it is known all over the civilized world." [1] "Charles H. Fletcher['s] ... signature is perhaps better known than that of any other man of his day. ...
When Fletcher senior was seconded by the government in 1942, his son took over the running of Fletcher Holdings. [2] At the time he was just 27 years old. [ 4 ] Among his achievements was the forestry joint venture with the Holland National Government in the 1950s to build the Tasman Pulp and Paper Company mill at Kawerau .