biography
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Edwardes, Sir Michael (Owen)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1930– )
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| biography:
| British business executive, born in South Africa. He studied at Rhodes University, and joined the Chloride Group of companies in Africa in 1951. He first worked in Britain in 1966, as commercial director then as general manager of Chloride's smallest subsidiary, Alkaline Batteries. He developed a reputation for rescuing ailing companies, and in 1977 was challenged to rescue British Leyland from commercial collapse, which he succeeded in doing over the next five years. He was knighted in 1979. |
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