The Big Fella. The Rise And Rise Of BHP Billiton

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: William Heinemann Australia
Publisher Place: North Sydney
Publisher Year: 2009
Edition: First Edition

Description: 518 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: This is the compelling story of how BHP and its partner Billiton rose from the humblest beginnings in the Australian Outback and on the Indonesian island of Belitung to starry heights on the great stock exchanges of the world. Based on more than 60 exclusive interviews, it rips away the superficial gloss to expose the political and industrial forces that really drive big business in the 21st century. In an investigative tour de force, authors Peter Thompson and Robert Macklin reveal the visions, the schemes, the scandals, and the corporate life-and-death struggles that have characterized BHPs evolution from the first lucky strike by the mysterious Charles Rasp at Broken Hill in 1883 to its merger with Billiton in 2001 to its daring $150 billion bid for Rio Tinto six years later. The result is a gripping story of foresight and blunder, of nation-building and rampant ego, of greed and of grace, written by two master storytellers with, for the first time, access to the key players themselves

ISBN: 9781741667103