Business World (Ireland) Ion Equity consortium buys Irish Shell
“A consortium led by venture capital firm Ion Equity has acquired Shell’s businesses in Ireland. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the company will continue to trade as Shell in Ireland.”
Friday 15 July 2005
(BizWorld)
A consortium led by venture capital firm Ion Equity has acquired Shell’s businesses in Ireland.
The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the company will continue to trade as Shell in Ireland.
Irish Shell owns six oil importation facilities in Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway, Derry and Greenore; 35 local distribution depots geographically spread across Ireland; 55 retail service stations and also supplies 105 independently-owned service stations.
It sells gas oil, diesel, kerosene, fuel oil and lubricants into all sectors of the market, both directly and through a countrywide network of authorised distributors.
The consortium has formed a company called Topaz as the vehicle for the acquisition, which will be chaired initially by Ion boss Neil O’Leary, while former managing director of Emo Oil, Danny Murray, will be chief executive of the business.
“We are confident that this business will continue as a profitable and growing enterprise well into the future,” O’Leary said.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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