Guinness Peat Group
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Guinness Peat Group is an investment holding company with interests in Europe, Australia and New Zealand.

History

The company, which had been formed as an investment offshoot of the London-based investment bank Guinness Mahon
Guinness Mahon
Guinness Mahon was an Irish merchant bank originally based in Dublin but more recently with major operations in London.-History:The firm was founded in Dublin in 1836 by brewer Robert Rundell Guinness, cousin of the brewer Arthur Guinness, and John Ross Mahon, an estate agent. A London office...

 in the 1980s, was acquired by Brierley Investments Limited (a business controlled by Sir Ron Brierley
Ron Brierley
Sir Ronald Alfred "Ron" Brierley is a New Zealand investor and corporate raider, chairman and director of a number of companies in Australia, New Zealand and the UK. He founded "R. A. Brierley Investments" in March 1961 with no capital...

) in 1990. The company's shares were listed on the New Zealand Stock Exchange in 1991, on the London Stock Exchange
London Stock Exchange
The London Stock Exchange is a stock exchange located in the City of London within the United Kingdom. , the Exchange had a market capitalisation of US$3.7495 trillion, making it the fourth-largest stock exchange in the world by this measurement...

 in 1992 and the Australian Stock Exchange
Australian Stock Exchange
The Australian Securities Exchange was created by the merger of the Australian Stock Exchange and the Sydney Futures Exchange in July 2006. It is the primary stock exchange group in Australia....

 in 1993.

Investments

It mainly holds minority investments in various businesses and in 2004 also acquired 100% of Coats, a British thread manufacturing business.
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