Marcel Boussac

French businessman (1889-1980)

In the history of enterprise, Marcel Boussac is one of the names that keeps returning.

The record lists Marcel Boussac as French businessman (1889-1980).

Marcel Boussac was born at Châteauroux in 1889. His recorded nationality is France.

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 businessperson and entrepreneur.

His recorded affiliations include Boussac Saint-Frères.

Business reputations are unusually sensitive to the decade in which they were made.

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

Marcel Boussac died in 1980, aged 91. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.

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