Showing posts with label company. Show all posts
Showing posts with label company. Show all posts

Thursday, 12 February 2009

The 88th wealthiest man in the world -Part 2 - Alberto Baillères


Alberto Baillères is the son of Raúl Bailleres. He is today the second richest man in Mexico, and fourth in Latin America, according to Forbes Magazine. He owns a holding company called Grupo Bal, which controls a large number of other companies like Industrias Peñoles / Peñoles the second most important Mexican mining company and the first silver world producer, El Palacio de Hierro a chain of departments stores mainly located in Mexico City, Grupo Nacional Provincial, the only entirely Mexican owned insurance company, and other businesses related with financial services, agriculture and bullfighting.

The 88th wealthiest man in the world -Part 1 - Ramesh Chandra


Ramesh Chandra is the founder of the multi-billion dollar Indian Real Estate company Unitech. As of 6 October 2007, his net worth was estimated at $10.4 billion, making him the eighth wealthiest Indian. A structural engineer, he moved into real estate in 1985 to build middle-class homes. His publicly traded company, Unitech, run by his two sons, is building a 350-acre (1.4 km2) community of luxury homes in the Delhi suburbs with a Greg Norman signature golf course. Partnering with Indonesia's Salim Group to set up special economic zones.

The 89th wealthiest man in the world -Part 3 - Charlie Ergen


Charles W. "Charlie" Ergen is the co-founder and CEO of EchoStar Communications Corporation, the former parent company of Dish Network. In 1980, he founded EchoStar with his wife Cantey and Jim DeFranco, targeting rural audiences for satellite dish service. He hosts a show called Charlie Chat on the Dish Network.
He is the 89th richest person in the world with a net worth of $9.1 Billion.

The 89th wealthiest man in the world -Part 1 -Ronald Perelman


Ronald Owen Perelman is an American billionaire investor who made his fortune buying beleaguered corporations and re-selling them later for enormous profits. Once the richest man in America, he is now the 26th richest American, with an estimated wealth of USD$11.5 billion. He has invested in grocery, cigar, licorice, makeup, car, photography, television, camping, security, lottery, jewelry, banks, and comic book companies. Throughout Perelman's tenure at the Belmont Iron Works (later renamed Belmont Industries) he assisted his father, Raymond, on many other deals, earning millions of dollars in the process. Their general strategy was one Perelman would follow for the rest of his life: Purchase a company, sell off superfluous divisions to reduce debt and generate profit, bring the company back to its core business, and either sell it or hang onto it for cash flow.

The 93rd wealthiest man in the world -Part 3 -Gautam Adani


Gautam Adani is an Indian businessman. He is the chairman of the Adani Group, a leading trading and export company of India. On November 16, 2007, Forbes magazine announced that Adani was the 13th richest person in India with a personal wealth of US$6.7 billion, making him the first billionaire from the city of Ahmedabad.

Monday, 9 February 2009

The 96th wealthiest man in the world -Part 3 -Adolf Merckle


Adolf Merckle was a businessman, and one of the richest people in Germany. Most of his wealth came from inheritance. He developed his Bohemian grandfather's chemical wholesale company into Germany's largest pharmaceutical wholesaler, Phoenix Pharmahandel. Adolf Merckle committed suicide on January 5, 2009 by throwing himself in front of a train near his hometown of Blaubeuren. It was believed that his cement company was unable to make payments on a huge loan taken out to purchase an English competitor.