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Love at First Sight' Dinner Forges High-Growth Platform
2014-11-06 08:14:28| Appliances - Topix.net
The rapid rise of Platform Specialty Products Corp. , which came out of nowhere to make $6.7 billion of chemical company acquisitions in less than two years, began over a fateful steak dinner between strangers. Martin E. Franklin, the chairman of consumer-products maker Jarden Corp. , was on the hunt for Platform's first acquisition.
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