Jacob E. Safra
Swiss financier
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purchase of “Encyclopædia Britannica”
- In Encyclopædia Britannica: Britannica in the digital era
…Britannica was sold to financier Jacob E. Safra, under whose leadership the company began a major restructuring. With declining sales of the print encyclopaedia, the company’s vaunted sales force was disbanded, and in 1999 the company launched Britannica.com, a free site featuring an Internet search engine, subject channels, current events,…
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