Thursday 12 February 2009

The 88th wealthiest man in the world -Part 3 - Serge Dassault


Serge Dassault is a French entrepreneur ( Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Dassault Group) and conservative politician. According to Forbes magazine, as of 2006 he was the 56th richest person in the world. Dassault's group also owns 82% of Socpresse which controls many important French newspapers and magazines, including Le Figaro, and L'Express. In 2004, Serge Dassault became a senator, and in this position, he has been an outspoken advocate of conservative positions on economic and employment issues, claiming that France's taxes and workforce regulations ruin its entrepreneurs.

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 2 - John Kluge


John Werner Kluge is a German-American entrepreneur and a billionaire. He is best known as a television industry mogul in the United States. Kluge's major move into media was by purchasing stock in the Metropolitan Broadcasting Corporation in the mid-1950s. In 1986, Kluge sold the Metromedia television stations to the 20th Century Fox film studio, which was now controlled by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, for a reported USD $4 billion. Those stations would later form the core of what would become the Fox television network. The following year, Forbes Magazine placed John Kluge at the top of its list as the richest man in America.

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 92nd wealthiest man in the world - Silvio Berlusconi


Silvio Berlusconi is an Italian politician, entrepreneur, real estate and insurance tycoon, bank and media proprietor, sports team owner and songwriter. Berlusconi is the founder and major shareholder of Fininvest, one of the country's ten largest privately owned companies, which currently operates in media and finance. Berlusconi's main company Mediaset comprises three national television channels, which hold approximately half the national viewing audience, and Publitalia, the leading Italian advertising and publicity agency. He also owns Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, the largest Italian publishing house, whose publications include Panorama, one of the most popular news magazine in Italy. He has interests in cinema and home video distribution firms (Medusa and Penta), insurance and banking (Mediolanum) and a variety of other activities. His brother, Paolo Berlusconi, owns and operates Il Giornale, a centre-right newspaper which provides a strong pro-Berlusconi slant on Italy and its politics. Berlusconi also owns the nationally and internationally successful football club AC Milan which has made an important contribution to his continuing political success.