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Carmine Monforte
Italian-born British entrepreneur
born Nov. 26, 1908 , Mortale [later renamed Monforte], Italy
died Feb. 28, 2007 , London, Eng.
expanded a tiny London milk bar (
snack bar), which he opened in 1934, into Trusthouse Forte PLC, a vast international enterprise that included highway service centres, restaurants, airport caterers, breweries, wine merchants, and a string of accommodations that ranged from the moderate-priced Travelodge motel chain to such luxury hotels as London's Waldorf and Grosvenor House. The 1996 hostile takeover of Trusthouse Forte by the British media giant Granada was the subject of a BBC television documentary in 1999. Forte was knighted in 1970 and awarded a life peerage in 1982.
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