Heron International

[1] After over extending itself in the 1990s, it was revived by Gerald Ronson, and has developed a building now known as 110 Bishopsgate, which was initially known as Heron Tower.When a mail-order firm put in an offer for the factory as it was approaching completion, Heron entered the property market.By the early 1980s Heron was one of the largest private companies in the United Kingdom, with assets of over £1.5 billion, including a significant stake in the American home video industry by way of Media Home Entertainment and its subsidiary labels, which Heron purchased in 1984.[3] The company survived with help from Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, Craig McCaw, Oracle Corporation’s founder, Larry Ellison, and others who gave loans to Heron.[4] Now supported by a series of investors, Heron International is a property development company, having developed more than 10,000,000 square metres (110,000,000 sq ft) of commercial and retail property, and around 15,000 residential units in the UK, Continental Europe and the US, with an investment portfolio worth over £500 million.