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Article: Jose Manuel de Mello, Portuguese businessman, dies
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- September 16, 2009
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Jose Manuel de Mello, a leading Portuguese entrepreneur who lost much of his family's banking-to-shipbuilding conglomerate in the country's 1974 Carnation Revolution but later rebuilt his business empire, died Wednesday, his company said. He was 81.
Grupo Jose de Mello said in a statement he died after a long illness. It did not elaborate.
Mello joined Grupo CUF, founded by his grandfather at the end of the 19th century, in 1951 and rose to its leadership. The conglomerate had interests in chemicals, tobacco, finance and shipping.
In 1974, when an army coup ousted Portugal's four-decade dictatorship ...