Roc Kirby
News and interviews on Roc Kirby including trends, features, blogs and community conversations from an Australian business perspective.
Founding family abandons plan to take Village Roadshow privateMonday, 24 August 2009
Cinema and theme park company Village Roadshow has announced that a proposal by the company's founding family to take the business private has been abandoned. ...
Time to make a deal
Monday, 17 August 2009
In the last few weeks, all sorts have people have declared that the economy has passed the bottom and is now in recovery mode, including veteran investors George Soros and Warren Buffett, famed economist Nouriel Roubini and even RBA Governor Glenn Stevens. ...
John and Robert Kirby may privatise Village Roadshow
Monday, 10 August 2009
John and Robert Kirby, the sons of Village Roadshow founder Roc Kirby, have told the Australian Securities Exchange that they are considering launching a proposal to take the cinema, theme parks and film production company private. ...
Movie entrepreneur Roc Kirby dies
Friday, 01 February 2008
The founder of ASX-listed entertainment conglomerate Village Roadshow died on 25 January, aged 89. Kirby, whose personal and family’s wealth was estimated by BRW at $325 million last year, founded Village Roadshow as a single drive-in cinema in Croydon, Victoria ...
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