Vlissingen (Dutch: [ˈvlɪsɪŋə(n)] ; Zeelandic: Vlissienge), historically known in English as Flushing, is a municipality and a city in the southwestern...
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Paul Fentener van Vlissingen (21 March 1941 in Utrecht – 21 August 2006 in Langbroek) was a Dutch businessman and philanthropist who was CEO of SHV Holdings...
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Van Vlissingen and Co., founded in 1879, are a privately held full-service commercial and industrial real estate developer, broker, asset and property...
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Fentener van Vlissingen is a Dutch patrician dynasty of entrepreneurs. Gerrit Oloffsz. van Vlissingen, a blacksmith living in Utrecht in the early 17th...
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Arthur Van Vlissingen Jr. (November 22, 1894 - October 20, 1986) was an American writer and bureau chief for Business Week and Newsweek, noted as editor...
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John Arthur Fentener van Vlissingen (born 4 March 1939 in Utrecht) is a Dutch businessman. He is one of the wealthiest people in the Netherlands and has...
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more than 5000 staff. Michael Eustace, Peter Fearnhead, Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, Anthony Hall-Martin, and Mavuso Msimang are credited as co-founders;...
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is the grandfather of Frits Fentener van Vlissingen, John Fentener van Vlissingen and Paul Fentener van Vlissingen. He was married to Sophie Schout Velthuys...
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1846, when Pieter Fentener van Vlissingen bought an existing textile printing factory and named it P. Fentener van Vlissingen & co., aiming to produce and...
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the estate was acquired by a company belonging to the family of Paul van Vlissingen, an Anglo-Dutch businessman and philanthropist; it was his home from...
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the Netherlands. Under the guidance of director Frits "FH" Fentener van Vlissingen, SHV's stature in the Netherlands went from strength to strength. Under...
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Van Vlissingen en Dudok van Heel was a famous nineteenth-century Dutch machine factory. It built steam engines and machinery for the sugar industry and...
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global business travel consultancy). Founded in 1975 by John Fentener van Vlissingen, BCD Group employs more than 15,000 people and operates in 100+ countries...
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such as Jean Baptiste Theodore Prévinaire: 16 and Pieter Fentener van Vlissingen, received examples of batik textiles by the 1850s if not before, and...
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VC Vlissingen is a Dutch football team based in Vlissingen, playing in the Hoofdklasse. During the two seasons it spent as a professional team in the...
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Look up Vlissingen in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Vlissingen is a city in Zeeland, Netherlands. Vlissingen, Van Vlissingen, or, variation, may also...
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Vliet • Van Vlissingen • Fentener van Vlissingen • Van Tongeren van Vlissingen • Van Vloten • Van Bommel van Vloten • Van Braam van Vloten • Stael van Holstein...
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shelved the idea following an outcry from sheep farmers. In 2002, Paul van Vlissingen, a wealthy landowner at Letterewe, Achnasheen, Ross-shire, in the western...
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engines. It was a successor of the company Van Vlissingen en Dudok van Heel, later named Koninklijke Fabriek van Stoom- en andere Werktuigen. In 1954 Werkspoor...
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daughter of Count Leo August von Cassis-Faraone and Wilhelmina Fentener van Vlissingen. They have four children. Prince Johannes von Hohenberg (3 May 1933...
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came under the direction of Paul van Vlissingen (1797-1876) and his brother Frits. In February 1825 the Van Vlissingen brothers, as directors of the Harlingen...
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governors in India early in 1781, it did not reach Governor Reynier van Vlissingen at the main outpost of Negapatam until rumors of war became widespread...
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Scheduling. Springer US, 2006. 1-22. John Robertson Dunlap, Arthur Van Vlissingen, John Michael Carmody. eds. Industrial Management, Vol. 65-66, p. 182...
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On 7 October 1919, eight Dutch businessmen, including Frits Fentener van Vlissingen, founded KLM as one of the first commercial airline companies. Plesman...
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In 1978 it was bought by the Dutch multi-millionaire Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, and it remains in the ownership of his family. In the 1990s, he negotiated...
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P.R. van der Made, A. van Haaftem, and J.F. Kolkman. The commission first contacted Paul van Vlissingen of Van Vlissingen en Dudok van Heel. Van Vlissingen...
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(1889–1942), Rear Admiral (Battle of the Java Sea) Paul Fentener van Vlissingen (1941–2006), businessman and philanthropist Anton Geesink (1934–2010)...
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worked there till 1 June 2001. In 1999, he won the Van Vlissingenprijs of the Foundation 'Ank van Vlissingen Fonds' which is given to persons and institutions...
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victory, and was highly acclaimed by the Dutch as a naval hero. Reynier van Vlissingen was the governor of Negapatam, the principal outpost of the Dutch East...
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Mother. The Lakeside Press, Chicago. Swift, Louis Franklin and Arthur Van Vlissingen (1927) The Yankee of the Yards: The Biography of Gustavus Franklin Swift...
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