This made most businessmen and bankers join the Whig party.

Many businessmen, Roman Catholic priests and landless farmers have joined the chorus of discontent.

In the late 1930s, the Board of Trustees at Armour was greatly expanded, with many Chicago industrialists and businessmen joining the board to increase funding and support the institute.

Many local businessmen and professionals joined the exodus of merchants who had discontinued their operations in the area.

In 2010, several Spanish businessmen, including Pedro Julián Santos Perandones, and a British manufacturer of racing cars joined together to create the company based in Valladolid.

Lou Izzo, a businessman joined their venture, donating a vacant loft above his family's supermarket and eventually signed on as the group's chairman.

In the early part of the 20th century, many notable businessmen joined Ladenburg Thalmann as partners, including Gerson von Bleichröder and Benjamin Seymour Guinness.

Eleven local businessmen, Copeland Council and Albright & Wilson joined forces to form Whitehaven 1992 Ltd, the holding company which owns 70 per cent of the shares.

Not content to rely upon the police to protect their property, often several businessmen would join together and hire a watchman to guard their premises at night.

A leading businessman in Brighton, Parker and his wife joined the National Front (NF) in 1975.