Lowy family net worth
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Frank Lowy facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Sir Frank Lowy AC | |
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Lowy at the Australian Football Awards in October 2011 | |
| Born | Frank P. Lowy (1930-10-22) 22 October 1930 (age 94) Fiľakovo, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Occupation | Businessman, investor |
| Years active | 1952−present |
| Known for | Co-founder, Westfield |
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| Spouse(s) | Shirley, Lady Lowy OAM (m. 1954; died 2020) |
| Children | 3; including Steven Lowy |
Sir Frank P. LowyAC (LOH-ee; born 22 October 1930) is an Australian-Israeli businessman of Jewish Slovak-Hungarian origins and the former long-time chairman of Westfield Corporation, a global shopping centre company with US$29.3billion of assets under management in the United States, United Kingdom and Europe. In June 2018 Westfield Corporation was acquired by French company Unibail-Rodamco.
Lowy was the inaugural chairman of Scentre Group, the owner and manager of Westfield-branded shopping centres in Australia an
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Steven Lowy
Australian executive (born 1962)
Steven Mark LowyAM (born 24 November 1962) is a leading Australian businessman and philanthropist. He is the former co-chief executive officer of Westfield Corporation, a leading global shopping centre company that was acquired by French company Unibail-Rodamco in 2018 in what was one of the largest transactions in Australian corporate history.[1] His principal activities now focus on investments associated with the Lowy family's private company, Lowy Family Group,[2] as well as a number of philanthropic and community roles including as Deputy Chairman of Australia's leading foreign policy think tank, the Lowy Institute; a director of the Lowy Foundation and Lowy Medical Research Foundation and Neurotech Pharmaceuticals Inc; President of the Hakoah Club;[3] a board member and trustee of Keren Hayesod-UIA; and on the Executive and Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency for Israel.
During his career Lowy has served on numerous corporate and philanthropic boards including chairman of world board of tr
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Shirley Lowy passes away
Born in Sydney to immigrant parents, her father from Poland and her mother from the UK, Shirley (nee Rusanow) spent her early years in Bondi before the family moved north so she could recover from a bout of rheumatic fever.
In 1952, after meeting Frank at a Chanukah party in Sydney, she told her best friend she was going to marry him or nobody.
He was a sandwich-hand and during their brief courtship, Shirley’s mother had her doubts. “What’s this immigrant boy ever going to amount to?” she asked.
Frank Lowy’s ambition and ‘chutzpah’ mesmerized her and by 1954 they were married.
As their three sons David, Peter and Steven, grew so did their business and their prosperity.
For the four males, Shirley was the family’s centre of gravity. Once her sons had grown up, she went to university to do an arts degree, but was always home before any of the men, to ensure domestic life was undisturbed and dinner was organised. While some of her friends worked and had careers, for Shirley family took priority.
She would happily forgo glamourous events, with the gran
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