Robert Louis-dreyfus, Former Owner And Turnaround Artist At Adidas, Has Died

Robert Louis-Dreyfus, the charismatic and unconventional French-Swiss billionaire who acquired and turned around Adidas in the mid-1990s, died on July 4 of leukemia, a disease against which he had been fighting for many years. He was 63 years old, and we knew him well.

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