Vries
Britishnoun
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Akzo Nobel in December said its finance chief Maarten de Vries would stay on, delaying his planned retirement in order to oversee the tie-up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026
Earlier this month, the EMEA's director general Sigrid De Vries told the BBC that "supply shortages were imminent".
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2025
"This is a cross-industry issue affecting a large number of suppliers and virtually all of our members," said de Vries.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2025
“He’s going to be a very good major league player,” Preller said of De Vries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2025
When the Dutch biologist Hugo de Vries encountered the concept of the gene in the 1890s, he quickly intuited that the idea would reorganize our understanding of the natural world.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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