SIMPLE Group

SIMPLE Group

Infobox_Company
company_name = SIMPLE Group
company_
company_type = Private (Limited liability)
foundation = flagicon|GIB Gibraltar (Incorporation: 1999)
location_city = Gibraltar
location_country = Gibraltar
key_people = Fabien Bénédicte Suant, Chairman
Stephen Kurphy, CEO
products = Tax Planning
Offshore Business

num_employees = Undisclosed
revenue = EUR€ 4.5 million profit (2006)
homepage = [http://www.simplegroup.com/ www.simplegroup.com]

"SIMPLE Group Limited is a conglomeration of separately run companies that each specialised in a particular area of Tax Planning.The core business areas are Legal Services, Fiduciary Activities, Offshore Banking, Offshore Outsourcing, Corporate Service and Offshore Business Services.

The date of incorporation is listed as 1999 by Companies House of Gibraltar [cite web
url = http://www.companieshouse.gi
title = SIMPLE Group: Search Company Number = 80416
publisher = Government of Gibraltar
author =
date =
accessdate = 2008-01-01 ] , who class it as a holding company; however it is understood that SIMPLE Group's business and trading activities date to the second part of the 90s, probably as an incorporated body.

SIMPLE Group Limited is a conglomerate that cultivate secrecy, they are not listed on any Stock Exchange and the group is owned by a complicated series of offshore trusts and companies in order to protect the owners. The Sunday Times stated that SIMPLE Group's interests could be evaluated at £77 million; the shareholders are understood to be a group of Swiss Private Banks' owners.

Each of the companies operating under the SIMPLE Group umbrella are independent and separate entities, with most being majority owned by SIMPLE Group, while he previous owners still holds minority stakes. Occasionally, They simply licenses the SIMPLE brand to a company that has purchased a division or service from them.

With a few exceptions, none of the companies began as wholly owned SIMPLE Group's subsidiaries but instead where acquired from different previous owners.

IMPLE Brands (under various ownership)

* CHAPLIN, BÉNÉDICTE & CO. — This is SIMPLE Group's Flagship Brand. Owned CHAPLIN, BÉNÉDICTE & CO. is a Legal Services Firm specialised in Tax Planning and Offshore Law. The firm is based in the City of London, United Kingdom with satellite representation in Riga, Latvia and Victoria, Seychelles.
* FBS Banking PLC — Offshore Banking Operations. FBS Banking was acquired by SIMPLE Group in 2001 for an undisclosed amount after a fierce battle with the Royal Bank of Scotland Group. FBS Banking is registered in Seychelles and operate from Latvia and England. They are in fact Agents of offshore or investments banks, mostly in Switzerland, Monaco and the Channel Island.
* Link The World Limited — Professional Due Diligence consultants for the Fiduciary industry. Link The World was one of the first company acquired by SIMPLE Group but is the least profitable of them as no recorded profits were ever reported on their Financial Statements. It is widely believed that SIMPLE Group actually owned other Fiduciary firms but more precise information seams impossible to obtain.
* SIMPLE Business Services — Outsourcing business fully owned by SIMPLE Group, SIMPLE Business Services cater for subcontracting services from the Baltic States in East Europe.
* Fresh Offshore — Low cost offshore companies incorporation and management. The Brand were bought from Swiss giant UBS in 2007 but SIMPLE Group never started trading under this name.

Footnotes

External links

* [http://www.companieshouse.gi] Official Registrar of Companies in GIBRALTAR
* [http://www.simplegroup.com SIMPLE Group] Official website of SIMPLE Group.


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужен реферат?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Simple group — In mathematics, a simple group is a group which is not the trivial group and whose only normal subgroups are the trivial group and the group itself. A group that is not simple can be broken into two smaller groups, a normal subgroup and the… …   Wikipedia

  • simple group — Math. a group that has no normal subgroup except the group itself and the identity. * * * …   Universalium

  • simple group — Math. a group that has no normal subgroup except the group itself and the identity …   Useful english dictionary

  • Characteristically simple group — In mathematics, in the field of group theory, a group is said to be characteristically simple if it has no proper nontrivial characteristic subgroups. Characteristically simple groups are sometimes also termed elementary groups.… …   Wikipedia

  • Absolutely simple group — In mathematics, in the field of group theory, a group is said to be absolutely simple if it has no proper nontrivial serial subgroups. That is, G is an absolutely simple group if the only serial subgroups of G are { e } (the trivial subgroup),… …   Wikipedia

  • Strictly simple group — In mathematics, in the field of group theory, a group is said to be strictly simple if it has no proper nontrivial ascendant subgroups. That is, G is a strictly simple group if the only ascendant subgroups of G are { e } (the trivial subgroup),… …   Wikipedia

  • Group theory — is a mathematical discipline, the part of abstract algebra that studies the algebraic structures known as groups. The development of group theory sprang from three main sources: number theory, theory of algebraic equations, and geometry. The… …   Wikipedia

  • Simple Lie group — Lie groups …   Wikipedia

  • Group (mathematics) — This article covers basic notions. For advanced topics, see Group theory. The possible manipulations of this Rubik s Cube form a group. In mathematics, a group is an algebraic structure consisting of a set together with an operation that combines …   Wikipedia

  • Group of Lie type — In mathematics, a group of Lie type G(k) is a (not necessarily finite) group of rational points of a reductive linear algebraic group G with values in the field k. Finite groups of Lie type form the bulk of nonabelian finite simple groups.… …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”