After reporting a massive rise in profits... Shell takes the money and runs
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29 October 2004
"VISITORS to the Willesden Jewish Cemetery in London can view the graves of some of the greatest names in British business. Among them is the memorial to Lord Bearsted, whose vision led to the founding in 1897 of Shell Transport & Trading, the older partner in the Anglo-Dutch giant. Now 107 years and countless billions of pounds of earnings later, Shell is to uproot itself from its London headquarters overlooking the Thames at Waterloo and decamp to The Hague......."