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...million gallons they quaff each year account for only 3% of the $15 billion world beer industry. But Toronto-based Canadian Breweries (Carling, Red Cap Ale) is the world's largest maker of beer and ale. Cornerstone of the financial and industrial empire of Financier Edward Plunket Taylor, it has not only grabbed a commanding 47% of the Canadian market, but has also pushed its brew from 62nd to fourth place in the U.S. since 1949. It has moved into England, Scotland and Ireland by buying control of local companies, now stands among Britain's top three...
...average Canadian can hardly step outside his house without finding himself dealing in some way with one of the vast enterprises of Edward Plunket Taylor. At 62 Taylor still works tirelessly at turning a profit on his every interest, whether it be racing horses, brewing beer and ale, or basking in the hot sun of the Bahamas. His personal wealth does not make him Canada's richest businessman, but his financial empire makes him the most influential. Spread out over some dozen industries, it has grown with such speed and success that a longtime associate of Taylor claims that...
...yearn after marlin and giant tuna congregate at Cat Cay, which Ad Tycoon Louis R. Wasey has turned into a fishing paradise for himself. 15 fellow estatesmen, and up to 36 approved paying guests. On a 4,000-acre islet called Lyford Cay in Nassau harbor, Canadian Financier Edward Plunket Taylor has spent $17 million providing a fitting setting for the homes of such notables as Henry Ford II and the Earl of Dudley...
After King Henry VIII broke with Rome, the church at Kells was surrendered to the Crown, but the book somehow got into the hands of a Dubliner named Gerald Plunket, who is believed to have been a distant relative of the last abbot. Later it was acquired by Anglican Bishop James Ussher, commissioned by James I to collect the historic treasures of the church. On Aug. 24, 1621, the good bishop duly noted that he had "reckoned the leaves of the booke and found them to be in number 344." When Ussher died, the manuscript was turned over to Trinity...
Coke & Beer. On central New Providence Island, nine new hotels have sprung up in the past five years. The Howard Johnson-run Nassau Beach Lodge opened in February; rushing to completion is Lyford Cay, a combination club-real estate development masterminded by international beer baron and financier Edward Plunket Taylor of Toronto. In 1955 Taylor paid $2,000,000 for 4,000 acres of underbrush 17 miles west of Nassau, making him the second biggest landowner on New Providence (after Eunice Lady Oakes and her children, heirs to the 7,000 acres of the late Sir Harry Oakes...