The Two Tycoons. A personal memoir of Jack Cotton and Charles Clore
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- Author(s) Gordon, Charles
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1984
- Pages 242pp; illus
- Publisher Hamish Hamilton
- Place Published London
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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The author was financial adviser to, and close friend of, Cotton and Clore; he later worked for Hambros Bank and was founder of the merchant bank, Spey Investments Ltd. Takes the form of a memoir about his business career but focuses especially on Cotton and Clore and their negotiations for the merger of their property interests, City & Central Investments Ltd and City Centre Properties Ltd to form City Centre Properties Ltd in 1960. Structured in three parts: '1] 'The marriage' 2] 'Interlude'; 3] 'The divorce', which reflect the merger of their interests, an interregnum, and subsequently their disagreement. Includes much about City Centre Properties Ltd