Word: bank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JOSEPH L. WICHERSKI Public Relations Officer The Chase Manhattan Bank Manhattan...
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From Broom to Pencil. Such modern techniques, combined with fast reaction to loan requests and an unusual willingness to take chances, have pushed Bradesco from nowhere 25 years ago into a commanding position as Brazil's biggest private bank-second in size to the federal government's bank. It now has deposits of $175 million, serves 1,200,000 customers and claims 174,000 shareholders, including all of its 8,064 employees...
...this is the accomplishment of a lean, handsome Brazilian named Amador Aguiar, 64, the son of peasants and a school dropout who got his start sweeping the floors of a small-town bank. Soon he handed in his broom for an accountant's pencil and, when his boss fled with the cash, moved up to manager. In 1943, with the assist of a few friends and $3,000 capital, he struck...
From the beginning, his bank concentrated on the rural areas in the inte rior, financing coffee growers and cattlemen. Bradesco endeared itself to its distant customers by such services as providing them with needed supplies and taking care of their bills and taxes in the capital. As the interior developed, Bradesco thrived and helped open more territories for cultivation, notably in the north of Parana state, now Brazil's richest coffee-producing area. "The sky is the limit," says Aguiar. "Now we have many more resources. We can do much more...