Holmes a Court, Peter

Peter Holmes a Court
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Name	Holmes a Court, Peter Gender: M
born on	11 November 1968 at 21:00 (= 9:00 PM )
Place	Perth, Australia, 31s57, 115e51
Timezone	AWST h8e (is standard time)
Data source	Rectified from approx. time Rodden Rating C Collector: Scholfield
Astrology data	19°12' 28°37 Asc. 17°26'

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Biography

Australian CEO of The Australian Agricultural Company, a beef baron, entertainment producer and co-heir to the Holmes à Court fortune founded by his father, Robert Holmes a Court.

After 16 years, half his lifetime abroad, former New York merchant banker Peter Holmes a Court returned home to Australia in November 2000 to make his own mark in business. He sold his interests in theatres and television production in the USA and U.K. with the beef business firmly on his horizon. "It has been reported that I'll be investing between $15 million and $20 million in the business and I'm doing that because I happen to think it's a good investment, I happen to think the company's got very strong assets," Peter said.

His background includes reading law at Oxford University and earning a BA in economics and theatre from Middlebury College, Vermont. In 1992 Holmes à Court was a financial analyst with James D. Wolfensohn Inc, an investment bank in New York. In 1993 he formed Back Row Productions, which grew to a New York, London and Sydney based producer of live entertainment, and television and video production. Back Row produced over 20 shows, in 30 countries and 300 cities. Acts included the Australian show Tap Dogs, the UK’s Eddie Izzard, and the US’s Jerry Seinfeld.

Peter lives in Sydney with his wife Divonne, a former corporate attorney, and their sons, George and Robert.

Late last year Peter Holmes a Court became the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Agricultural Company. With 380,000 cattle on 19 properties in Queensland and the Northern Territory, AA Co. is the nation's second largest cattle producer and the third largest landholder. Its 6.5 million hectares equates to one per cent of Australia's landmass. And it plans to be the biggest. AA Co. wants 1 million cattle by 2004. "We want to ensure there's all year supply of beef. It comes back to 100 million kilograms of dressed weight beef, which is a turn off of about 440,000 head of cattle a year. Ends up being a herd of about 1.1 million animals. But it's not about having a million head of cattle so we can put six zeros behind a one, it's about backing a product that we can say that we can reasonably say we can get to the market 365 days a year," Peter Holmes a Court said. His father died in September 1990.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Relationships

• parent relationship with Holmes a Court, Robert (born 27 July 1937)

Events

• Work : Begin Major Project November 2000 (Returned to Australia to family beef industry)

• Work : New Job 1992 (Financial analyst)

• Work : Start Business 1993 (Started Back Row Productions company)

• Death of Father 2 September 1990

Source Notes

Sy Scholfield quotes Patricia Edgar, "Janet Holmes à Court," Sydney: HarperCollins, 1999, p. 100: "Janet ... gave birth at Swan District Hospital on 11 November 1968. The baby ... was induced at 8:00 a.m., going into labour a few hours later. Robert was with Janet most of the day. About 6:00 p.m. Robert went back to Darlington to have dinner with their friends, June and Harvey Phillips and their children, and Peter was born while Robert was away. June told Janet that 'when the call came through Robert absolutely glowed and was out the door without even saying goodbye he was so excited.'"

The birth time is speculative, mean time between 6pm and midnight. The birth announcement in the "West Australian" (14 Nov. 1968, p. 63) gives same place and date of birth, no time.

Categories

• Vocation : Business : Top executive (CEO)

• Vocation : Miscellaneous : Animal Breeder/Trainer (Beef baron)

• Notable : Famous : Top 5% of Profession

• Vocation : Entertain/Business : Entertain Producer

• Vocation : Entertain/Business : Director

• Vocation : Business : Business owner (Own production company)

• Family : Parenting : Kids 1-3 (Two boys)