So it’s goodbye to the name of Strauss Turnbull. The call to the knacker’s yard from the uncompromising French bosses at Société Générale surprised no-one. Relationships between the two house had long been fraught. SocGen probably thought that Strauss Turnbull was a better firm than it proved to be. When the French found out that it had been sold a pup it was only a matter of time before the tumbrels were rolled out.
But Strauss Turnbull wasn’t always a basket case.
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