Thursday, September 27, 2007
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RATAN TATA
Corus takeover: Who is Ratan Tata?
India's Tata Steel has won the battle to take over the Anglo-Dutch steelmaker Corus by making a £5.75bn ($11.3bn) bid.
Tata chairman Ratan Tata is not among the Forbes' list of 40 richest Indians around the world.
His sprawling business empire is no longer the largest among privately-owned Indian groups.
He's not even considered the most powerful businessman in India.
More importantly, there's still a lack of clarity about who'll be his successor after his planned retirement in 2012.
But he's one of the most respected corporate chieftains in India.
And when London-based steelmaker Corus agreed to his takeover bid in October, he had arrived on the global arena.
That's a short snapshot of Ratan Tata, 69, who controls the $22bn Tata group, which includes 96 companies manufacturing a range of products from automobiles to watches, steel to fertilisers.
CARLOS SLIM
The Secrets of the World's Richest Man
Mexico's Carlos Slim makes his billions
the old-fashioned way: monopolies
By DAVID LUHNOWAugust 4, 2007.
As one Mexico City eatery jokes on its menu: "This restaurant is the only place in Mexico not owned by Carlos Slim."
Mexico's Carlos Slim makes his billions
the old-fashioned way: monopolies
By DAVID LUHNOWAugust 4, 2007.
Carlos Slim is Mexico's Mr. Monopoly.
It's hard to spend a day in Mexico and not put money in his pocket. The 67-year-old tycoon controls more than 200 companies -- he says he's "lost count" -- in telecommunications, cigarettes, construction, mining, bicycles, soft-drinks, airlines, hotels, railways, banking and printing. In all, his companies account for more than a third of the total value of Mexico's leading stock market index, while his fortune represents 7% of the country's annual economic output. (At his height, John D. Rockefeller's wealth was equal to 2.5% of U.S. gross domestic product.)
It's hard to spend a day in Mexico and not put money in his pocket. The 67-year-old tycoon controls more than 200 companies -- he says he's "lost count" -- in telecommunications, cigarettes, construction, mining, bicycles, soft-drinks, airlines, hotels, railways, banking and printing. In all, his companies account for more than a third of the total value of Mexico's leading stock market index, while his fortune represents 7% of the country's annual economic output. (At his height, John D. Rockefeller's wealth was equal to 2.5% of U.S. gross domestic product.)
As one Mexico City eatery jokes on its menu: "This restaurant is the only place in Mexico not owned by Carlos Slim."
Mr. Slim's fortune has grown faster than any in the world during the past two years, rising by more than $20 billion to about $60 billion currently. While the market value of his stake in publicly traded companies could decline at any time, at the moment he is probably wealthier than Bill Gates, whom Forbes magazine estimated at $56 billion last March. This would mark the first time that a person from the developing world held the top spot since Forbes started tracking the wealthy outside the U.S. in the 1990s.
WEEK 1 - EXPERIMENT 3: ARTICLES
ZHANG YIN
Ms Zhang is the 49-year-old founder of Nine Dragons Paper, which buys scrap paper from the US for use in China.
Her wealth rose from $375m last year, when she was 36th in the annual China Rich List, compiled by Hurun Report.
Nine Dragons' shares have almost tripled in value since they were listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange.
Ms Zhang is now the richest self-made woman in the world, ahead of US TV celebrity Oprah Winfrey and Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling.
She takes over the top position from retail magnate Huang Guangyu of Gome Electrical Appliances.
There are 35 women on the 500-strong Hurun list, which contains 15 billionaires, double the number from 2005.
In July, Chinese president Hu Jintao called for greater measures to tackle the wealth gap.
The divide has accelerated as market forces exert a greater control over the economy, which grew at 11.3% in the second quarter of 2006.
Ms Zhang is the 49-year-old founder of Nine Dragons Paper, which buys scrap paper from the US for use in China.
Her wealth rose from $375m last year, when she was 36th in the annual China Rich List, compiled by Hurun Report.
Nine Dragons' shares have almost tripled in value since they were listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange.
Ms Zhang is now the richest self-made woman in the world, ahead of US TV celebrity Oprah Winfrey and Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling.
She takes over the top position from retail magnate Huang Guangyu of Gome Electrical Appliances.
There are 35 women on the 500-strong Hurun list, which contains 15 billionaires, double the number from 2005.
In July, Chinese president Hu Jintao called for greater measures to tackle the wealth gap.
The divide has accelerated as market forces exert a greater control over the economy, which grew at 11.3% in the second quarter of 2006.
Sunday, September 9, 2007
WEEK 3- IMAGES
These spaces (outside- Stephen Hawkins, inside-Florence Nightingale) are connected via two ramps, one coming from either side. This was done so that both clients can easily meet at the centre, without one being disadvantaged over the other.
Friday, September 7, 2007
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