Fifty Years in the City. Financing small business
Details:
- Author(s) Kinross, John
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1982
- Pages 238pp; illus
- Publisher John Murray
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Finance of production & trade
- Name Small businesses
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
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Autobiography by Lord [John] Kinross largely about his business career in which early on he worked as a broker and latterly an a senior executive of pioneering venture capital businesses including, most notably, Industrial & Commercial Finance Corp Ltd [ICFC], later 3i Ltd, 3i Plc. In his career closely associated with, inter alia, Sir Arthur Wheeler, Gresham Trust Ltd and Cheviot Trust Ltd. Much about the finance of small businesses giving insight into processes and City of London attitudes. Has chapters: 'An Edinburgh childhood'; 'A new world discovered'; 'In at the deep end'; 'The United Wire Works'; 'Amateur theatricals and polish seconds'; 'The City via Leicester'; 'The Wheeler crash; 'The Cheviot Trust'; '1938 to 1942'; 'Woodmans Farm'; 'ICFC - the first phase'; 'ICFC - general manager - the first stage'; ''The successful investor' and backing the right man'; 'The Mary Kinross Charitable Trust'; 'ICFC - general manager - the second stage'; 'Guernsey - a happy diversion'; 'ICFC- executive director'; 'ICFC - deputy chairman; 'To sum up'