About Eric Vansittart Bowater
Lived 1895 – 1962 (aged 67). Eric Vansittart Bowater was a military personnel and businessperson.
Sir Eric Vansittart Bowater, FRSA (16 January 1895 – 30 August 1962), was an English businessman, who took the family firm Bowater from a paper merchant to the world's largest paper products company in his 40 years as its CEO and chairman. Company assets at the time of Bowater's death in 1962 totalled close to £200 million.
He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
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Who was Eric Vansittart Bowater?
British businessman
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Eric Vansittart Bowater was born on 16 January 1895.
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Eric Vansittart Bowater died on 30 August 1962.
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Eric Vansittart Bowater was a military personnel and businessperson.
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