Marc Besen
Marc Besen · Economics & Business
Founded the Sussan retail group and built the Highpoint shopping centre; with his wife gave Australia the TarraWarra Museum of Art
19 December 1923, Cernăuți County, Romania
Romania · Australia
Marc Besen is recognized among Jewish contributors to Economics & Business — Founded the Sussan retail group and built the Highpoint shopping centre; with his wife gave Australia the TarraWarra Museum of Art
Marc Besen was born to a Jewish family in Romania in 1923 and reached Australia as a boy in 1938, months before the war. He built the Sussan womenswear chain into a national retailer, developed Highpoint, one of the country's largest shopping centres, and with his wife Eva founded the TarraWarra Museum of Art in the Yarra Valley, giving their collection of Australian modernism to the public.
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Founded the Sussan retail group and built the Highpoint shopping centre; with his wife gave Australia the TarraWarra Museum of Art
Source: Wikipedia — Marc Besen
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