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The Master Builders: How the Reichmanns Reached for an Empire
The Master Builders How the Reichmanns Reached for an Empire Author:Peter Foster Between July, 1985 and April, 1986 the Reichmann family of Toronto, already the world's biggest property developers, pulled off the two largest acquisitions in Canadian history - Gulf Canada and Hiram Walker Resources. The takeovers marked the stunning culmination of a decade of spectacular growth, during which Paul Reichmann, the family'... more »;s strategic mastermind, had increaded the assets under the family's control twentyfold, surpassing those of Canada's largest publicly owned companies. And yet hardly anybody knows who the Reichmanns are. Here, Peter Foster uncovers one of the world's largest, most intriguing, and most secretive corporate empires.« less