Lloyd Stanley Perron (2 November 1922 23 November 2018) was an Australian businessman and philanthropist.

Biography

Perron left school at the age of fourteen to sell hand-carved handkerchief boxes. He did not attend high school. He started his business career by running a fleet of taxis in Perth in 1944. He then built ice-skating rinks. In 1959, he invested £500 in the

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with

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and Peter Wright, entitling him to 15 per cent of any future

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. He later received millions in royalties from

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and

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found in

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close to

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by the

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. In 2012,

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was forced to give him tens of millions of Australian dollars as a result of a trial at the

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. With his brother Keith, Perron founded Perron Brothers, a trucking and earthmoving business, which they sold to Thiess in 1961. He bought a

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franchise with David Golding. He later invested in real estate along the

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. He owned half of the

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skyscraper in Perth and eight shopping centres in Australia. In May 2012, he purchased fifty per cent stakes in Perth's

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in Melbourne and

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in Adelaide from the Centro Properties Group. His Perron Group is headquartered in

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. He also owned SP Investments.

Personal life

He was married to Jean Perron, and they had three children and seven grandchildren. He enjoyed fishing in the ocean. In 1995 Perron was appointed a Member of the

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"for service to business and commerce and to the community". Perron died aged 96 in Perth on 23 November 2018. He was posthumously appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in the

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in recognition for his eminent service to the community through philanthropic contributions to a range of charitable organisations, and to the commercial property sector.

Personal wealth

In 2018, ''

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'' assessed Perron's

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as 3.99

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, listed on the ''

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'' Rich List. Prior to his death, Perron was one of seventeen living individuals listed on every ''BRW'' Rich 200 (or its replacement, the ''Financial Review'' Rich List) since the first list was published in 1984. Meanwhile in 2015, ''

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'' assessed his net worth at 1.60 billion, on the list of Australia's 50 richest people.

Philanthropy

In 1978, he established the Stan Perron Charitable Foundation in support of charities for sick and disabled children, and scholarships and awards for university students. He also donated to the Association for the Blind of WA, which has renamed its Centre for Excellence as The Perron Centre.

References

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