Book Extract
Agrizzi lifts lid on Gavin Watson's Italian getaway in 'Inside the Belly of the Beast'
In this extract from his book Inside the Belly of the Beast: The Real Bosasa Story, Angelo Agrizzi recounts how in 2009 his former boss at Bosasa, the late Gavin Watson, fearing the impact of the SIU report, suddenly decided to take a trip to Europe with Agrizzi and another colleague. Watson, writes Agrizzi, wanted to win their confidence and prepare for the storm brewing around the company.
01 November 2020 - 00:00
In 2009, Gavin got wind from one of his contacts in government that the SIU report was resurfacing and, on the spur of the moment, he insisted that the three of us - him, Andries [van Tonder] and me - take a trip to France and Italy to strategise and plan the business's way forward...
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