Bull Verweij

Dutch businessman (1909–2010)

Bull Verweij belongs to the commercial record as a figure whose ventures outlasted the conditions that produced them.

The record lists Bull Verweij as Dutch businessman (1909–2010).

Bull Verweij was born at Hilversum in 1909. His recorded nationality is Netherlands.

Around the turn of the twentieth century the corporation became the dominant economic form, along with the antitrust politics that followed it.

He worked as entrepreneur.

Commercial success is easy to measure and hard to interpret; timing and market do much of the work.

That the business was built from Netherlands shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.

Bull Verweij died in 2010, aged 101. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.

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