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Aristocrat eyes $94b prize with megadeal
Aristocrat Leisure’s $3.9 billion acquisition is designed to set it up for growth over the next five years.
In October 1966, The Australian Financial Review recorded a visit to London by Len Ainsworth, a 42-year-old entrepreneur who had taken his father’s hobby dental supplies firm – the grandly named Ainsworth Consolidated Industries – into the gaming machine business.
The article makes it clear that Ainsworth Consolidated, which would soon change its name to Aristocrat Leisure and ditch the dental supplies, already had a global outlook.
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