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Heron International
Heron International is a British property development company. Founded by the Ronson family, it came to prominence in the 1980s as the UK's largest operator of self-service petrol stations. After over extending itself in the 1990s, it was revived by Gerald Ronson, and has developed Heron Tower, the tallest building in the City of London.
==Foundations==
Named after current Chief Executive Gerald Ronson's father Henry Ronson, Heron was a furniture manufacture and sales business. In 1954, aged 15, Henry's son Gerald joined the family firm, and at the age of 17 was put in charge of developing a new factory. When a mail-order firm put in an offer for the factory as it was approaching completion, Heron entered the property market.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gerald Ronson )〕 Heron Homes became one of the biggest house builders in the South of England. Developing into commercial property and office development, since the 1960s, Heron has developed 160 buildings in nine countries. During the 1970s and 1980s, Heron International sponsored the Suzuki factory racing team in Grand Prix motorcycle racing, with riders including Barry Sheene, Randy Mamola, Mick Grant and Rob McElnea.
By the early 1980s Heron was one of the largest private companies in the United Kingdom, with assets of over £1.5 billion. But the company was over-extended, and after Gerald's involvement in the Guinness share-trading fraud during which time he spent six months in Ford Open Prison,〔 (in 2000, the European Court of Human Rights adjudged his trial to have been unfair), by the mid-1990s the company almost collapsed with debts of £2.4 billion owed to 89 banks and 15,000 bondholders. The company survived with help from Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, Craig McCaw, Oracle Corporation’s founder, Larry Ellison, and others who gave loans to Heron.〔("A Guy Named Gerald" 2007 Interview )〕
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