Talk:John Teeling

A fact from John Teeling appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 November 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that serial entrepreneur John Teeling broke the monopoly in Irish whiskey held by Irish Distillers by launching Cooley Distillery?

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ORES rates this (70%) B but ideally it would have a little more on:

references from a couple of books
the textile ventures and / or some of the mining ventures
a fraction more on talks and videos.

SeoR (talk) 00:48, 23 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Value investing v asset-stripping?[edit]

Shurely a mentoon? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.213.135.140 (talk) 16:44, 25 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

If the question means what I think, the article's subject has tackled it, and I can try to include a brief note in a revision as the business section expands. Many tactics which are routine nowadays were novel in the Ireland of the 70s and 80s, and this might fall under that heading. SeoR (talk) 22:04, 25 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Companies[edit]

In response to a mailed query, and as I am not yet putting all this detail into the article, here is a non-exhaustive list of mineral and hydrocarbon enterprises, some in the 162 Group, some before it, some legally separate even if operated from 162 Clontarf Road:

Early: Minquest
LSE AIM: African Gold (sold), Minco, Petrel Resources, Connemara > Arkle Resources, Persian Gold, Pan Andean Resources, African Diamonds, West African Diamonds, Botswana Diamonds, Clontarf Energy (Persian Gold merged with Hydrocarbon Exploration Ltd.)
also involved with: Swala Resources
and Greenore Gold, Irish Whiskey Company Ltd. (family), Great Northern Distillery Ltd. (different mix of family), and a small share in the Teeling Whiskey Company (probably since diluted)

SeoR (talk) 22:04, 25 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination[edit]

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 20:09, 10 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that serial entrepreneur John Teeling broke the monopoly in Irish whiskey production – reduced to two Irish Distillers distilleries – by launching Cooley Distillery and reopening Kilbeggan Distillery? Source: [1]: "So did John Teeling, who in the late 1980s, after years of planning and work, ended Irish Distillers' longtime monopoly when he launched Cooley Distillery." covering three points, and [2] "On 19th March 2007, 250 years after the first licence was granted, distillation once again started at the distillery.", covering the fourth point

Reviewed: not applicable (5th nom, last before QPQ)
Comment: Breaking a monopoly on a whole industry seems a good case, but there are other possibilities in this article

Created by SeoR (talk). Self-nominated at 21:34, 30 October 2020 (UTC).[reply]

ALT1 ... that serial entrepreneur John Teeling broke the monopoly in Irish whiskey held by Irish Distillers by launching Cooley Distillery and reopening Kilbeggan Distillery?

This article is new enough and long enough. I am approving the reduced ALT1 hook but not the original, but otherwise the hook facts are cited inline, the article is neutral and I detected no copyright issues. A QPQ is not needed this time but you can do one for practice if you like! Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:23, 10 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]