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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hony_Capital

Through its subsidiary Hony Capital, Legend acquired PizzaExpress for US$1.54 billion from private equity fund Cinven in 2014.

Coincidentally, that's when the Hampstead case broke.

So looking into the directors of the company around that time: https://find-and-update.company-informa ... ory?page=3

17 Sep 2012 Termination of appointment of Stephen Easterbrook as a director

The man who rehabilitated Ronald McDonald https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... .mcdonalds

In 1978 the 11-year-old Steve Easterbrook was at Watford grammar school for boys. During the holidays he could be found loafing around the nearest parade of shops, kicking his heels. "Me and my mate used to go across the park, jump on the Met line to get the tube into Harrow. There was a sports shop we always used to go into, and there was a McDonald's." Like Easterbrook, McDonald's UK was then a comparative fledgling, just four years old. "We used to go off with three or four quid in our pocket. That would cover our train fare, mooching around Harrow, and going to McDonald's. It was the first time I had shakes and fries."

Today, Easterbrook is nine miles down the road at McDonald's unassuming head office in East Finchley and finds himself at the helm of Britain's biggest restaurant chain, with 1,200 outlets, 17,000 farm suppliers and an estimated £35m marketing budget. ..

Another Hampstead coincidence.. the article goes on to list his interests..

Chairs the CBI's education and training committee and sits on the CBI's chairmen's committee. He is also a representative on the Prince's Rainforest Project. Fan of Watford Football Club

You mean THIS Watford FC ? https://files.catbox.moe/jfka3h.jpg Elton John and Robert Maxwell have both been managers of the club.. and it was involved in a pedophile scandal in the UK dubbed Pizzagate. Just another coincidence, of course.

Voat posts:

UK Ping Pong, Football and that pizzagate scandal , Tavistock and George Soros https://searchvoat.co/v/pizzagate/2852400

Elton John and Robert Maxwell https://searchvoat.co/v/thinkdrafts/3420206

Gondola Group was a chain restaurant operator in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It operated several casual dining brands:[1]

Byron Hamburgers, sold to Hutton Collins for £100 million in October 2013.[2]
Kettners, champagne bar and restaurant (one site in London), sold in 2013/2014.
PizzaExpress, sold to the China based private equity firm Hony Capital in July 2014 for £900 million ($1.54 billion).[3]
ASK Italian and Zizzi, Italian food. Sold to Bridgepoint Capital in February 2015 for £250 million.

Owner : Cinven

INSTANT COMPANIES LIMITED , Appointed on 2 October 1920

LANGMUIR, Hugh Macgillivray, Director ...Appointed on 15 January 2010 ; Resigned on 17 February 2012

[June 2012] HRH The Princess Royal has been installed as the Chancellor of the University ...The Princess Royal succeeds HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who stepped down from the role in 2010, having held it since 1953.

The Princess is also Patron of the University’s Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies.

During the event, the newly installed Chancellor presented a benefactor's award to the writer JK Rowling. The award recognises the Harry Potter author's gift of £10 million to the University for the establishment of the Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic. The facility, due to open in spring 2013, will focus on research into treatments for Multiple Sclerosis and other degenerative neurological conditions.

Also recognised with a benefactor's award were Hugh MacGillivray Langmuir and Josseline Langmuir.

Lord Wilson of Tillyorn was presented with a degree honoris causa for his contribution to Scotland via education, commerce and culture.

Hugh Langmuir

Degrees, Edinburgh University, Harvard University and London Business School. Formerly, with Bain & Company and Citi, London and Paris. Since 1991, with Cinven: since 2009, current position; leads medium and long term strategic development of business; has been involved in a number of transactions including Amadeus, Aprovia, MediMedia, Coor and Camaieu.

Oak Hill Capital Partners is a private equity firm headquartered in New York City.. Robert Bass is the lead investor.

Robert Bass, who was an early investor in leveraged buyouts in the 1980s and employed David Bonderman and Jim Coulter the founders of Texas Pacific Group, is the lead investor in Oak Hill Capital Partners.

The company has garnered widespread media attention due to its addition of investors Bill Gates and Nike founder Phil Knight.

Other investors include the Country of Singapore and Stanford University.

Over a period of nearly twenty years, Oak Hill Capital has invested in more than fifty significant private equity transactions, including:

Imagine Group
Ariel
Atlantic Broadband
Genpact
The Container Store
Butler Animal Health Supply
EXL Service
Progressive Moulded Products
TravelCenters of America
WideOpenWest
Blackboard Inc.
American Savings Bank (Washington Mutual)
Bell & Howell (ProQuest)
Oreck Corporation
Vertex Data Science
eGain
Wometco Cable Corporation
MetroNet
Alibris
Dave & Buster's
Local TV LLC
Checkers and Rally's
Safe Fleet
Invisalign
Blackboard
Burger King


Recent acquisitions
In October 2014, Oak Hill Capital Partners acquired Berlin Packaging for a fee of $1.43 billion from Investcorp.[4]

In January 2018, Oak Hill Capital Partners acquired Safe Fleet from The Sterling Group.[5] No value of the deal was mentioned.

On June 15, 2018, Oak Hill Capital Partners acquired a majority stake in VetCor Group Holdings Corp. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Berlin Packaging is a supplier of packaging services based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its customers include companies in the beverage, food, personal care, pharmaceutical, household care, industrial, and coatings sectors. In 2017, Berlin Packaging reported a valuation of $2.6 billion and revenue of $1.3 billion.[1]

At the end of 2017, the firm had 30 sales offices as well as more than 75 dedicated or third-party warehouse locations across the United States and Canada. Through its European operations with Bruni Glass and Bruni Erben, Berlin Packaging also has sales and warehouse locations in Italy, France, Spain, England, and South Africa..

Berlin Packaging was formed in 1988[3] when lawyer Andrew T. Berlin joined his father in purchasing Alco Packaging, a longtime Chicago-based container company, which was renamed Berlin Packaging. Alco Packaging earned $69 million in annual sales at the time, and its roots trace back to 1898, when Riekes Container was founded, a firm purchased by Alco Packaging in 1975.

Acquisitions
In 2000, Berlin Packaging acquired Knap-Pac Containers,[4] a wholesale provider of industrial and personal care packaging.

In 2003, it purchased Freund Container,[5] a packaging, closure and industrial-supplies distributor, maintaining it as an operating division.

In 2010, the firm acquired two companies: All-Pak Inc.[6] of Bridgeville, Pennsylvania, a supplier of rigid packaging products and services, and Continental Packaging Solutions,[7] a multinational supplier of glass and plastic containers and closures headquartered in Chicago. Both companies were merged into Berlin Packaging's larger packaging business.

Berlin was the chairman and chief executive officer of Berlin Packaging, a global supplier of plastic, glass and metal containers and closures with 2017 sales in excess of $1.3 billion and a valuation of $2.6 billion.[2] In October 2014, the company was valued at $1.4 billion.[3] His management of Berlin Packaging has been used as a case study in The Human Equation by Jeffrey Pfeffer.[4]

He is a partner and shareholder of the Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball team[5] and chairman and owner of the South Bend Cubs, a Minor League Baseball team affiliated with the Chicago Cubs..

Philanthropy

Berlin serves on the board of trustees at Syracuse University.[19] He serves on the advisory board of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.[20]

In 2017, Berlin was appointed by Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner to the Illinois State Police Merit Board, which is responsible for selecting, promoting, and disciplining Illinois State Police troopers.[21]

In 2010, Berlin helped finance the ongoing teaching and research of issues relating to national security at the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism (INSCT) at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. The endowment gift was made by the Andrew Berlin Family National Security Research Fund

Berlin is one of three commissioners on the Glencoe, Illinois, Public Safety Commission, a body which recruits, promotes, and disciplines, along with the director of public safety, all of Glencoe's police, fire and EMT professionals.[23]

Berlin started the Glencoe School Safety Project with the goal to add school resource officers to enhance safety at Glencoe, Illinois, schools.[24] The Glencoe School Board also created a Safety and Security Committee at Berlin's request.

Berlin was involved in raising money for the Illinois State Police Memorial. As part of this, he funded a film to honor Illinois state troopers who died in the line of duty since 1922. The film won a 2015 Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Public Affairs/Current Affairs Programming.[25]

Berlin has served on the boards of directors for several nonprofit organizations, including the American Cancer Society, Starlight Children's Foundation Midwest[26] and A Silver Lining Foundation.

Thanks to a great friend, community partner and the Mayor of South Bend. PeteButtigieg Go SBCubs !!! https://files.catbox.moe/ziluhz.jpg

Check out the partners of COWF, including the Open Societies Foundation https://www.cowf.org/supporters

So, who's on the leadership team for COWF? https://www.cowf.org/team

AMEL NAJJAR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, FOUNDER

...she is ALSO affiliated with The Aspen Institute, a CIA affiliated clown op. See Neon Revolt article on Pete Buttigieg and HIS affiliation with The Aspen Institute (also funded by Soros' Open Society), where he was a Rodel Fellow: https://www.neonrevolt.com/2019/03/31/t ... eonrevolt/

Mary Blanchard and Barb Van Loenen, Operation HELP board members..Mary Blanchard is with the Hudson Rotary Club http://archive.is/wip/pp9A6

Pastor Jon Lestock of Bethel Lutheran Church and Chaplain Tim Sackett of the TA Truck Stop built upon the discussion as they addressed their perspectives of local values. Presentations by Alena Taylor of Turningpoint, Mary Blanchard of Operation Help and Sally Anderson of Community Thread continued the conversation by providing awareness of community needs.

https://www.rivertowns.net/lifestyle/fa ... s-chaplain

Tim Sackett takes the pulpit at the Transportation For Christ chapel at the Travel Centers of America truck stop east of Hudson. The former truck driver has served as chaplain since the TFC chapel was established in 1992.

I found a Mary Blanchard in the Dominican Republic. She is older than the Blanchard in Wisconsin but I'm wondering if there is a family relationship. But given the Casa de Camp post which found links to TA Truck Stops I am including the following:

Foundation Celebrates the Completion of the Together Campaign - https://www.supportdominican.org/donor-appreciation-

On September 14 the Dominican Hospital Foundation hosted a Donor Appreciation reception, combined with the Hospital’s 75th year anniversary and the celebration of the completion of the together campaign. Guests gathered at the luxurious Chaminade Resort and Spa to enjoy refreshments and music by Joe Ferrarra. A short program including physicians, hospital staff, and patients spontaneously sharing the impact donations made on their work and their experience at Dominican Hospital. Dr. Magdy Ismail, Medical Director of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Dominican, shares how donations have impacted his work with our most fragile patients.

Harry and Mary Blanchard with Ted Burke, Dominican Hospital Foundation President.

Business Development Board Palm Beach County - Pepe Fanjul Jr. https://www.bdb.org/staff-directory/boa ... _directory

Judge Loretta Preska..Preska was an attorney in private practice in New York City from 1973 until 1992, initially with Cahill Gordon & Reindel..Preska is married to Thomas J. Kavaler, with whom she attended law school. Kavaler was the editor-in-chief of the Fordham Law Review and is a partner at Cahill Gordon & Reindel

..They advised the underwriters in the IPO of Ally Financial,[8] represented the underwriters in the IPO of hospital-operator HCA Holdings, which is reported to be the largest ever private equity-backed IPO on a US exchange [1] represented JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley and the other underwriters in the IPO of media measurement group Nielsen Company, which raised $1.6 billion and represented the underwriters in the IPO of Caesars Entertainment Corporation.

[Prince Andrew takes a break in Valderrama and Sotogrande https://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/3 ... sotogrande]

Paul Evans has many other companies to his name including 25 WELL WALK LIMITED https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/comp ... 9/officers

One of the other directors is Kaveh SHAKIB https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/offi ... pointments

Professor Shakib is a leading Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon and plays polo in Sotogrande

HCA Healthcare on Shakib https://www.hcahealthcare.co.uk/consult ... veh-shakib

Voat posts on HCA Healthcare https://searchvoat.co/?t=hca+healthcare&b=on

Meghan Markle, the Portland Hospital and HCA Healthcare - which takes us to Rick Scott, ... and the Florida ratlines... https://searchvoat.co/v/pizzagate/3238475

HCA Healthcare... founded by the Frist family > Congressman Bill Frist, Board of director member of the Clinton bush Haiti Foundation > Thomas Frist III, Brother-in-law: Charles A. Elcan, founder of Ardent Health Services, and the co-founder and president of the China Health Care Corporation > Ardent Health Service, subsidiary of Kindred Healthcare > Kindred Healthcare is represented by the Podesta Group ; China Health Care Corp was sold to Bain Capital in 2017

Chris Labruzzo was appointed by Gov. Rick Scott of HCA / Colombia who was involved in the largest defrauding of health care and hospital patients, and got away with it to serve as FL Gov and now US Senator.

SCOTT OPPOSES KIDS IN CAGES FOR THE PRESS..BUT THEN FUCKING PAYS FOR THE LARGEST IMMIGRANT CHILDREN'S DETAINMENT CENTER......WHICH IS UNREGULATED BY CHILD WELFARE.....AND HAS MANY RECENT ALLEGATIONS OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE

Pg. 23 Kettner's Drinking, Dining & Revelry since 1867

...Key high profile events this year have included receptions for Universal Music, LK Bennett, Claire’s Accessories as well as the launch party for the film, ‘I Give It a Year’, starring Rose Byrne.

..noting that physicist Astrid Gonzalez-Rabade is a Director at Wayfair having come from Cavendish Lab. and Bain & Co. London.. I googled those organisations and came across another former Bain & Co. employee who found his way to Wafair:

Yoni Pasternak, Associate Director ..

Prior to Bain he worked for 5 months at Universal Music Group. That caught my attention because of Lawrence Bloom...a Klaus Schwab, Prince Charles associate at the WEF and advisor to the Parvati Foundation... He is Co Founder of Dakia Global LLC, the ultimate holding company of a JV with the the Universal Music Group

From his bio:

Lawrence Bloom is currently Secretary General of the Be Earth Foundation, a UN Inter Governmental Organisation which advises, assists and enables in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals on behalf those Countries with which it has Treaties

He is a Co Founder of Dakia Global LLC, the ultimate holding company of a JV with the the Universal Music Group which together are creating and building music themed hotels, districts and cities. He also forming, on behalf of the Company, an emerging global think tank called the Dakia Scholars

Lawrence is Chair of Be Energy a green energy company specialising in the conversion of waste and plantation timber to a post fossil fuel green diesel...

Lawrence was appointed the first Chairman of the World Economic Forum, Global Agenda Council on Urban Management and he is a current alumna of all Agenda Councils. He is former Chairman of the UN Environmental Programme, Green Economy Initiative, Green Cities, Buildings and Transport Council, and also served as an active a member of the Corporate Responsibility Advisory Group of the ICEAW.

Lawrence enjoyed a long and distinguished career in the property industry. Among a number of senior positions, he sat on the Executive Committee of the Intercontinental Hotel Group

Universal Music chief Lucian Grainge is in UCLA Medical Center with coronavirus, reports say.

Grainge, who’s 60, recently had a big birthday party where guests included Tim Cook and Eddy Cue from Apple, and Irving Azoff, one of the most powerful people in the biz. (He manages Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles, controls Madison Square Garden, stuff like that).

According to Variety, the party guests included many well known names in the music biz. The party was held at the fancy shmancy Madison Club in La Quinta, a resort city near Indio, California where Coachella is held. Bold face names on the property include Karsdashians and Jenners, Rande Gerber and Cindy Crawford, Sly Stallone, Scooter Braun, Ray Romano and Alan Smolinsky, one of the owners of the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Meanwhile, at Universal Music’s Santa Monica headquarters, an employee also tested positive. The offices have been shut down.

Sir Lucian Charles Grainge CBE (born 29 February 1960)[1] is the chairman and chief executive officer of Universal Music Group. Over the course of his career, he has worked with artists including Lady Gaga, Amy Winehouse, ABBA, Eurythmics, Rihanna, Sam Smith, Take That, Psychedelic Furs, The Rolling Stones, Sting, Jamie Cullum and Andrea Bocelli...

Grainge grew up in North London. He was raised Jewish.[8] Grainge left Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School for Boys at the age of 18, and began working as a runner at MPC, a talent scout company in 1978.[5] After contacting several record label bosses, he was offered a job by Maurice Oberstein, chairman of CBS Records, working at publishing company April Music's A&R department. ..

Grainge became the chairman of the UK division of the Universal Music Group, and then in 2005 of Universal Music Group International. He served in this position until 2010. On 1 January 2011 he became CEO of Universal Music Group, and then chairman on 9 March 2011, succeeding Doug Morris...

His older brother was Nigel Grainge, the founder of Ensign Records...

Grainge was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours for services to the creative industries.[38] In 2012, he was appointed a British Business Ambassador by the UK Prime Minister David Cameron.[39][40] He was knighted in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to British business and inward investment.[41] He was inaugurated to appointment to the Order of the British Empire and Knight Bachelor by Prince William on 29 November 2016.

Grainge is a trustee of the American Friends of The Royal Foundation of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry.

..Grainge serves on the boards of Lionsgate and Northeastern University.

In 2015, Grainge was featured in Amy, a documentary film depicting the life and death of British singer Amy Winehouse...

Morris began working with MCA Records in July 1995 by forming a joint venture record label, which became Universal Records when Morris was appointed chairman and CEO of MCA Music Entertainment Group in November 1995. ..Morris became chairman and CEO of Sony Music Entertainment on July 1, 2011

As the founder (and former chairman) of VEVO, Morris partnered with Google chairman Eric Schmidt to launch the new premium music video and entertainment service in late 2009. ..

Morris serves on the board of directors of CBS Corporation, The Robin Hood Foundation, The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and The Rock -N- Roll Hall of Fame Foundation.

In 1995, Seagram Company Ltd. acquired 80% of MCA.[24] In November of that year, Teller was fired and replaced by former Warner Music Group head Doug Morris.[25] Palmese left MCA a week later.[26] On December 9, 1996, the new owners dropped the MCA name; the company became Universal Studios, Inc. and its music division, MCA Music Entertainment Group, was renamed Universal Music Group (UMG), headed by Morris.

In spring 2003, the MCA label was absorbed by sister UMG label Geffen Records.

A number of points from that WaPo article on the Finders cult. I'm going to look at the journalists who wrote that piece in 1987 - Saundra Saperstein and Victoria Churchville ..She attended MIT.. The Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT seeks to advance science journalism in the public interest .. Launched in 1983 under the guidance of founding director, Victor McElheny..The KSJ vision was recognized early as an essential one in supporting and developing science journalism by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation — the program’s primary funder — as well as the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the Kavli Foundation.

In 1978, McElheny left The New York Times after five years as the paper’s technology specialist to join Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory as first director of the Banbury Center. He was charged with organizing approximately 20 conferences on environmental health risks, and publishing (as the chief editor) 12 books from the conferences. He worked under Watson’s supervision for four years. In subsequent years, McElheny has visited Cold Spring Harbor many times, particularly to do research for his 2003 biography Watson and DNA: Making a Scientific Revolution and also to gather material for his 2010 history of the Human Genome Project for Basic Books..