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3 unusual facts about Werner Rey


Die Weltwoche

In 1987, Jean Frey Verlag was bought up by notorious entrepreneur and fraudster Werner Rey.

Werner Rey

Through his companies, Werner Rey held controlling participations in the Metallwerke Selve AG in Thun, the commodity inspection company Inspectorate International, the holding company Omni Holding AG, the Swiss media conglomerate Jean Frey AG, the temporary employment agency Adia Interim (today part of Adecco), and a substantial 30 percent of the established Sulzer group, among others.

Werner Kurt Rey (born October 6, 1943 in Zürich) is a Swiss entrepreneur former bank clerk, who made a name for himself in 1976 when acquiring the majority of the venerable but loss-making Bally Shoe company and selling his stake soon later with a profit of around 60 million Swiss francs.



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