40 chief executives of leading European and American business and banking firms assembled in the Brussels for a colloquy on their common concerns, among them: Philips and Shell.

THE best way to solve problems is to foresee them before they become problems.” Those words from Dr. Joachim Zahn, chairman of the executive board of West Germany’s Daimler-Benz, expressed as well as any the sense of an unusual meeting in Brussels this month. Nearly 40 chief executives of leading…

A typically worldly, multilingual Dutchman Gerrit Wagner, is the new chairman of Royal Dutch/Shell, a globe-spanning industrial empire that employs 165,000 people.

A typically worldly, multilingual Dutchman, who spent part of his youth as an anti-Nazi resistance fighter, has just taken over the top job in a globe-spanning industrial empire that employs 165,000 people, owns and charters a fleet of 200 ships and lately has encountered some rough weather. Gerrit (“Gerry”) Wagner…

Shell group is second in the world oil industry (after Jersey Standard) and the largest industrial enterprise of any kind outside the U.S. Shell’s earnings rose in 1969 7.9% to $1 billion.

“Oil is seldom found where it is most needed, and seldom most needed where it is found,” says L.E.J. Brouwer, senior managing director of Royal Dutch/Shell. Brouwer speaks from sometimes painful experience. Though the Shell group is second in the world oil industry (after Jersey Standard) and the largest industrial…

Mr. Deterding, director of Royal Dutch/Shell, was shocked to read his obituary, not by the report but the meagreness of his notices. It continues giving a short overview of his life and work.

Like Mark Twain, Sir Henri Deterding once read a report of his death. Unlike Mark Twain, Sir Henri was shocked—not by the report but by the meagreness of his obituary notices, the fact that he was confused with an obscure brother. That was in 1924, and since then Sir…

Mevrouw Van Eeghen, the niece of mighty Sir Henri Deterding, Director General Royal Dutch Shell (Oil) Group, has been shot dead in Amsterdam.

Amsterdam is the city of drab workmen who cut and polish brightest diamonds, the home of landlubbing watermen who pole barges along slow canals, the habitat of buxom and sensible stenographers who pedal to work each morning upon thousands of bicycles. Amsterdam, in short, is the last place where one…