The management took notice and, through their leading shareholder Lonrho, arranged funding and sent a British manager to help the fledgling team.
Lonrho |
He left Lonrho in 1969 to join John Tyzack & Partners, but returned to the Lonrho board in 1980 where he remained until 1994, after control of Lonrho had passed from Rowland to the German businessman Dieter Bock.