In the past were primarily oil billionaires, bankers and owners of huge companies, today the curriculum of billionaires is vastly changed and in the list of the richest men in the world there is a huge amount of people belonging to the computer world, particularly on the web.
This list is not a simple list of who owns what, but a real summary of the life of billionaires of 2013.
49 – Michael Dell ($ 15.3 billion)
48 years old – resident of Austin, Texas (USA) – Married – 4 children – sector: computer science
Born in 1865 to a family originating from Germany, Michael Dell has proved to be a successful entrepreneur. At the age of fifteen, after days spent in the chains of Informatics to dream, buys his first computer, an Apple II, which disassemblò to understand how it was done, in the meantime, while attending high school, he sold magazine subscriptions. Michael noted that the majority of those who bought tickets were about to move to his home town, he thought then check all marriage certificates and requests for mortgages in the area so you have a large number of people that shortly they would be transferred. Using this technique, in that year he managed to earn $ 18000 with a simple chore, much more than earned his professors.
While attending the course Pre-Med (Hall of the Faculty of Medicine) at the University of Texas at Austin, to round Michael began selling pieces to update your PC from his room, 2713 of Dobie Center, and shortly thereafter decided to perform this job with a commercial license in order to sell to local firms. This move proved to be successful as it managed to maintain the lowest prices of the competition not having any expense arising from a physical store. This made immediately understand the enormous potential Of direct sales without outlets in January 1984 recorded his first company and since that day, there was a continuous rise.
In 1992, 27 years, Michael Dell became the youngest Ceo to appear on the list of Fortune, in 1996 began selling PCs online and created its first server and in 2001 the 12.8% of computers sold worldwide were "Dell" arriving at a rate of 34.3% while other companies lost ground.
49 – Leonardo Del Vecchio ($ 15.3 billion)
77 years – living in Italy – Married – 6 children – Optical industry
Leonardo Del Vecchio, the undisputed king of glasses, is the founder of Luxottica, the world's largest and leading manufacturer of glasses in the world. Over the years, has been able to expand its empire with popular international brands and today owns the two largest chains of American optical, Sunglass Hut and LensCrafters in addition to two historical brands worldwide, Oakley and Ray-Ban.
The enormous capacity of the Luxottica to penetrate new markets, such as expanding Chinese, has allowed the group to increase the profit of 16% in the first nine months of 2012 with a huge appreciation from shareholders. As a result, by March 2012, the old book have added additional 4 billion dollars.
Just 7 years after the death of his father, Leonardo was sent to boarding school. Some time later, he worked as an apprentice in a factory that made car parts and eyeglass frames, hence was born the idea that would have made him one of the richest men in the world. Luxottica was founded in 1961, now owns 7100 stores and is carried out by 65000 workers. Claudio, the son of Leonardo, owns the Brooks Brothers that in addition to selling menswear, obviously Luxottica products sells.
Leonardo Del Vecchio is the second richest man in Italy
47 – Leonid Mikhelson ($ 15.4 billion)
57 years – residing in Russia – Married – Child – Sector 1: Gas, chemistry
The enormous luck of Leonid has increased by about $ 4 billion in the last year thanks to the excellent performance of petrochemical group Sibur Holding, which owns a huge slice. The company has managed to completely and to pay them back 1 Billion in dividends, but the possessions of Mr. Mikhelson do not end here, owns 25% of the another massive gas company, Novatek, who directs personally.
Mikhelson was proposed to sit at the head of the Novatek in 1987 who at the time was building pipelines, roads and industrial facilities and it is thanks to his foresight that the company was able to expand exponentially until today's levels. Leonid immediately began to rearrange the interests of Novatek acquiring permits for the production of oil and gas in the form of payments for work performed. In 2006, Gazprom acquired a 20% stake in Novatek, this move was seen by many as an act necessary for the survival of the company.
46 – Rinat Akhmetov ($ 15.4 billion)
46 years old – resident of Donetsk (Ukraine) – Married – 2 children – industry: steel, coal.
The son of a miner, Rinat knew how to take advantage of the recent privatization in Ukraine by purchasing 5 coal mines last year. His company, DTEK already controls more than 60 percent of coal production in Ukraine. Besides the SCM (System Capital Management) that controls numerous companies in various branches including the Metinvest, one of Europe's largest companies operating in the field of steel.
Rinat graduated in economics at Donetsk National University and owns the football club Shakhtar Donetsk.
45 – Joseph Safra ($ 15.9 billion)
– 74 years residing in Brazil – Married – 4 children – Banking Sector:
The Brazilian banker, Safra, is consolidating its position in Europe with the acquisition of the Swiss group in 2012 Bank Sarasin for $ 2 billion and then blend it together with its other European banking and holding company to its Bank of Bahamas in Bank j. Safra Sarasin.
His eldest son Jacob is in charge of the European side and the Safra National Bank of New York while other two sons David and Albert, dealing with Banco Safra, the seventh largest bank of Brazil (in terms of assets).
44 – Cheng Yu-Tung ($ 16 billion)
87 years old – resident of Hong Kong – Married – 4 children – sector: Diversified
A native of Lunjiao, Shunde, Guangdong, he now lives in Hong Kong. Cheng was an admirable entrepreneur because it has diversified investments in many sectors all very profitable.
Owner of Chow Tai Fook Enterprises, a conglomerate that controls real estate companies, casinos, hotels, transport companies, precious metal, ports and telecommunications companies.
Cheng Yu Tung is also involved in Shun Tak Holdings and the Sociedade de Turismo e Diversoes de Macau Bank Group and Hang Seng Bank.
Today you are gradually withdrawing from the business by his son Henry and grandson Adrian and Sonia to command posts.
44 – Len Blavatnik ($ 16 billion)
55 years – living in the United States – Married – sector: Diversified
This Russian-American billionaire, was recently found to have to fight with all his might against the recording industry continues to fall. After acquiring the third largest world's record label, Warner Music, for 3.3 billion dollars, had to refresh the entire workforce, reorganize the company and pay the enormous debts. Through his Holding Company Access Industries has invested $ 130 million in online music service Deezer and Warner Music acquired the label Parlophone for another 750 million. Thanks to these courageous maneuvers, Blavanik managed to maintain zero 2012 leaks even if the revenues are still pretty thin.
From this we can see that the luck of Len does not derive from music, in fact, this billionaire is entered in the list of the richest in the world thanks to a company founded in 1986, Access Industries, an international industrial group through which he could take advantage of Russian privatization and invest in many companies including the Alfa Group, the TNK, and UC Rusal, companies in the chemical, petroleum, mining and metallurgy, plastic.
Blavanik properties also include large international companies, including BASF.
43 – Aliko Dangote ($ 16.1 billion)
55 years residing in Nigeria – Married – 3 children – sector: cement, sugar, flour
The cement magnate, is in first place among the richest on the African continent for the third consecutive year.
His empire is derived from 30 years of trading cement, flour and sugar. In October 2012 has sold his company dedicated to the manufacture of flour to South Tiger Brands grossing $ 190 million.
Today, in addition to the Dangote Group, also devoted himself to practicing Jogging every morning.
41 – Lakshmi Mittal ($ 16.5 billion)
62 years old – resident of India – Married – 2 children – Field: steel
The Indian steel magnate are lately losing many positions in the ranking of the richest in the world because of the enormous losses of his company, ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steelmaker. In 2012, its shares lost about $ 4 billion because of reduced exports to Europe.
Lakshmi has been forced to sell some of its international companies in the United States, Canada and France to reduce losses and recently threw in a new venture with another Billionaire, Rattan Tata (Tata Group owner), a new Indian airline.
Mittal lives in London with his family and despite being the richest man in Britain, is not a citizen Brtitannico.
41 – Mikhail Fridman ($ 16.5 billion)
48 years, residing in Russia – Divorced – 2 children – sector: Diversified
Alfa Group, the company that Fridman checking together with two other partners, is the largest financial and industrial group in Russia.
The "self-made man" who in his youth was selling theater tickets in 1986 graduated from the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys and a few years later he founded the Alpha Group along with two fellow University students. Initially, the company dealt exclusively with financial products, but it's enough just to let him expand the interests in other fields including oil, gas and telecommunications.
In 2012, Alfa Group has sold 50% of the oil sector to Hwy Rosneft for $ 28 billion, while telefonica was sold to Russian billionaire Usmanov for $ 5.1 billion but not 2012 was composed of sunshine sales, in fact, the VimpelCom (subsidiary of Alfa Group) bought the telephone holding company of Egyptian billionaire Sawiris to become the sixth-largest telephone company on the planet.
Alfa Group also owns the Alfa Bank, the largest private bank in Russia.
40 – German Larrea Mota ($ 16.7 billion)
59 years living in Mexico City (Mexico) – Married – Mining Sector
Mexican entrepreneur born July 8, 1941, is the CEO of Grupo Mexico the most important mining corporation of Mexico and the third largest copper producer in the world.
In his long career, German Larrea was Chairman of the Board, President and CEO of Grupo Mexico since 1994. He also occupied the role of Managing Director in Southern Copper Corporation (another mining company), in Grupo Ferroviario Mexicano,Empresarios Industriales de Mexico, in the Compania Perforadora and other huge Mexican society.
The enormous luck of Sig. Larrea is derived from the fact that his family controls 51% of huge mining conglomerate.
36 – Georgina Rinehart ($ 17 billion)
59 years living in Perth (Australia) – Widow – 4 children – Mining Sector
Autraliana, born on 9 February 1954, is the only heiress of Hancock Prospecting (mining giant) that he received from his father Lang Hancock.
Recent declines in the value of iron they did lose 1 billion dollars to Georgina but this is the least of his problems as Mrs. Rinehart recently lost a major battle against Stan Perron concerning royalties on iron (his main source of income). It's currently in lawsuit against three of his four children as they cut them out of the family business by declaring that they were not capable of managing the enormous wealth. The youngest daughter Gina has full support from his mother and recently bought two condominiums on an island of Singapore for $ 45 million.
36 – John Mars ($ 17 billion)
76 years old – resident of Jackson (USA) – Married – 3 children – industry: Confectionery
John Mars and Forrest Jr. and Jacqueline, are the third generation to own the Mars Inc. They inherited the largest confectionary company in the world in 1999 upon the death of his father.
The company was founded in 1911 by john and today's grandfather Bill 33 billion $ per year with its products sold worldwide including the famous Mars bar, Milky Way and Snickers. In 1941, coins were introduced in the M & M's and their success is still undisputed ascendancy since 400 million are produced per day.
In 2008, Mars Inc. He completed the circle by acquiring a well-known brand internationally in the production of chewing gum, the Wrigleys
36 – Jacqueline Mars ($ 17 billion)
73 years – living in The Plains (USA) – Divorced – 3 children – industry: Confectionery
Along with his two brothers inherited the Mars Inc. who today runs with her children.
Jaqueline is a trustee of the u.s. equestrian team which in 2012 has donated 500 ' 000 $.
36 – Forrest Mars Jr. ($ 17 billion)
81 years old – resident of Big Horn (USA) – Divorced – 7 children – industry: Confectionery
Born in 1931, is the eldest of the brothers, heirs of Mars Inc.
In addition to owning a third of the world's largest confectionery company in the world, is also owner of a ranch "The Diamond Cross Ranch" by 33000 Hectares. Forrest is very active in activities against pollution and in Republican politics of the United States.
35 – Iris Fontbona & family ($ 17.4 billion)
70 years – living in Santiago (Chile) – Widow – 3 children – Mining Sector
Iris Fontbona is Hadronic Luksic's widow, died of cancer in 2005. His family controls Antofagasta is one of the largest copper mines in the world. They have also many dimensions in Quinenco (a company that specializes in food packaging and beverage production) and Playa Laguna (a chain of resort).
Although Iris is still an important figure within the group, the reins are managed entirely by children.
34 – Alisher Usmanov ($ 17.6 billion)
59 years living in Moscow (Russia) – Married – Steel, telecommunications industry.
Majority shareholder of Metalloinvest (the company that deals with metals on behalf of Gazprom) and Megafon is also owner of television networks and the largest economic newspaper of Russia, the Kommersant and just as a hobby, has recently acquired the English football team Arsenal FC to follow his colleague Abramovich, without taking into account the share of Facebook which held until 2012 and that sold in the IPO grossing 1.3 billion. Really a man with many interests.
Originating from a modest family, Usmanov studied international studies at Moscow State Institute and in 1992 married a former gymnast. In 2012 has bought an Airbus A340-300 to 300 million and a Mega Yacht, the plane is called "Bourkhan" and the yacht "Davies", the names of his father and his mother.
33 - Jorge Paulo Lemann- ($ 17.8 billion)
73 years – residing in Brazil – Married – 5 children – sector: Beer
Mr. Lemann is now the richest man of Brazil thanks to its shares in Anheuser-Busch InBev, the biggest brewer in the world. The world has focused the spotlight on Jorge and his associates at the beginning of 2013 when his investment firm, 3 g Capital along with Warren Buffet acquired Heinz, the largest producer of ketchup on the planet.
Large acquisitions and sale are not new to the beer magnate, in fact has many corporate transactions e.g. in 1998 sale to Credit Suisse First Boston of his investment bank Banco Garantia for $ 675 million, or his purchase of hamburger giant Burger King carried out together with the richest man in northern hemisphere Eike Batista.
Lemann also owns the advertising company Lojas Americanas and the Group of Real-Estate investments Sao Carlos Empreendimentos e Participacoes S.A. together with some of his associates.
Besides being an excellent businessman, Jorge is also a very good tennis player, has participated in an edition of Wimbledon.
32 – Alberto Bailleres & Family Gonzalez ($ 18.2 billion)
81 years old – resident in Mexico City (Mexico) – Married – 4 children – Mining Sector
Alberto Bailleres, son of Raúl Bailleres, sits at the head of the second largest mining company in Mexico and the first world level with regard to silver. Also owns a chain of supermarkets and the only insurance company wholly owned by a single person of Mexico. He is a member of the ITAM (education) and possesses more financial companies as well as companies that manage bullfights.
His empire was inherited by his father, Raul, but Alberto has proved a man just as capable.
31 – Theo Albrecht Jr. & family ($ 18.9 billion)
62 years – Germany – resident 1 son-industry: Supermarkets
Theo Jr. has inherited, along with his brother Berthold (1954 – 2012) an immense popular supermarket chain in Germany, ALVI (North).
The supermarket Empire was created just after World War II by Theo and Karl Albrecht, SR. his father and uncle respectively of heirs who transformed the little shop in a supermarket discount calling him precisely ALDI (short for Albrecht Discount). In 1961, the two founders decided to divide the company into two large groups with the same name, but operating in the North and in the South of the country so you can better manage the Empire.
Theo Jr. has inherited the same entrepreneurial spirit of his predecessors by continuing to grow exponentially, the area north of the already huge chain of discount stores.
30 – George Soros ($ 19.2 billion)
82 years – resident of Katonah, NY (USA) – Divorced – 5 children – sector: Hedge Funds
Hedge Funds Legend George Soros is Chairman of Soros Fund Management , which manages both his immense fortune that money belonging to its Foundations active in the humanitarian field.
Born in Budapest, Hungary, survived the Nazi occupation in Hungary and went to study at the London School of Economics where he acquired the notions that it would enter the Olympus of the billionaires.
In 1969 he founded the Quantum Fund Management, the first company that treats this will not ever, Hedge funds.
In 2012, despite an unprecedented international economic crisis, his actions were always active and have trailed in a sense, the entire u.s. market, thanks to a major bet on the Yen by George.
29 – Dieter Schwarz ($ 19.5 billion)
73 years – residing in Germany-Married – 2 children – sector: retail
Dieter Schwarz is the heir of the second largest supermarket chain in Germany with branches throughout Europe, the Lidl.
Mr. Schwarz was for a long time on the list of the richest in the world until 1999, when intestò the Lidl to a Charitable Foundation, after a careful research, it was discovered that the Dieter Schwarz Foundation is a limited liability company with charitable purposes and not a charitable foundation with this, Dieter Schwarz is immediately returned to take up his position in the rankings compiled annually by Forbes.
26 – Thomas & Raymond Kwok ($ 20 billion)
60 and 61 years – residing in Hong Kong – real estate industry
The enormous wealth of the brothers Kwok and his family is treated as unique as there are news about the partitions.
The real estate tycoons in Hong Kong are owners of Sun Hung Kai Properties , the largest construction company and real estate management. Founded in 1963 by father, it is a non-British companies (even during the British rule) that today has 35000 workers including acquisitions experts, architects, engineers and economists. The main activity of the company is to build and then sell.
Another lucrative business that the brothers run is the SmarTone Telecommunications a mobile company that operates on the territory of Hong Kong.
Recently, have done much to speak of if due to a scandal about some payments in Exchange for political favors, but they have always denied any involvement.
Thomas attended London Business School while Raymond was first to Cambridge, then at Harvard.
26 – Carl Icahn ($ 14 billion)
77 years-living in New York (USA) – Married – 2 children
Carl Icahn is a self-made man born in 1936. Great investor known worldwide for his work as Corporate Raider (entrepreneur with substantial capital acquires companies in debt thanks to very complex economic transactions).
Belonging to a Jewish family, he enrolled initially at the prestigious Princeton University and then at New York University School of Medicine but did not achieve a degree.
At the age of 25 years made his first entrepreneurial steps on Wall Street and at 32 years old he formed his first company, Icahn & co. A company specialized in consulting services for investors and high-risk investment. This same company was the real springboard of Carl as she could make huge profits by simply purchasing shares and sell them in short periods. With these techniques, future billionaire could achieve important positions in prestigious companies including Texaco, Philips Petroleum, Revlon, Time Warner, Motorola and many others.
Made a lot of talk about the purchase of the airline Trans World Airlines (TWA) in 85 despite the negative opinion of all members of the Board of Directors.
In his lifetime, he often used a method called Junk-Bond (garbage) to finance its operations.
26 – Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud ($ 20 billion)
58 years old – Resident in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) – Married – 2 children – sector: Investment
Member of the Royal family, Prince Al-Waleed is a "self-made man". He studied in the United States and founded the Kingdom Holding Company, a company that specializes in various investments ranging from banking, telecommunications, real estate and media up to agriculture, catering, trade, electronics and automobiles. Some of the companies in which the Prince has invested include: Amazon, Time Warner, Apple, Coca-cola, Compaq, Citigroup, Disneyland Paris, eBay, Ford, McDonalds, Motorola, Procter & Gamble and many other ...
In 2012 he bought 3% of Twitter for $ 300 million was the first individual to order an Airbus A380.
He is currently the richest Middle Eastern capitalist.
24 – David Thomson & family ($ 20.3 billion)
55 years – living in Toronto (Canada) – Divorced – 4 children – sector: media
The Canadian media mogul, grew up in Toronto, Canada, he attendedUpper Canada College and graduated in 1978 at the University of Cambridge.
The huge Empire being at the head of which was bequeathed by his father but before they can handle the reins independently, he has held many positions in several companies owned by the family and founded the Osmington Incorporated, an independent company that operates in the sports field and who owns the hockey team "Znamya" and "MTS Centre".
David Thomson became Chairman of Thomson Corp. in 2002 and participated in the acquisition of Reuters in renaming the company Thomson Reuters.
24 – Lee Shau Kee ($ 20.3 billion)
85 years residing in Hong Kong – Divorced – 5 children – sector: Varied
His interests range from real estate to services on the internet through hotels, restaurants, educational sector and stocks.
The actions of its mega construction company, Henderson Land, rose 40% in the last year, making it even more substantial the enormous wealth of Lee Shaw Kee said "Hong Kong Buffet".
23 – Michele Ferrero & family ($ 20.4 billion)
87 years – living in Monte Carlo (Monaco) – Married – 2 children – sector: Chocolate
The Patriarch of the Ferrero has inherited the company from his father Pietro in 1950 and has turned into one of the largest producers of chocolate and candies wrapped in the world. Today, in addition to the world famous Nutella and Ferrero Rocher, also belong to the group the Tic Taccandy, the hazelnut chocolates, the Estathè and Pocket Coffee.
With 15 plants, subsidiaries and 22000 70 workers, Ferrero Group doesn't seem to feel any crisis.
In 2011, the Ferrero family has been shaken by a terrible news, one of two sons of Michael, Peter, came suddenly failed whilst in South Africa, today the reins of the company are in the hands of the second son Michael.
22 – Mukesh Ambani ($ 21.5 billion)
55 years – residing in India – Married – 3 children – sector: Petrochemical
Despite its heritage has been reduced by $ 1 billion, Mukesh Ambani is the richest man in India for the sixth consecutive year.
Born on 19 April 1957 in Mumbai, he lived his early childhood along with his brother and two sisters in a small house with two bedrooms. He graduated in chemical engineering, he managed to come to Stanford University for an MBA by following one of the two years of the course. The reason for his departure from the prestigious American University comes from the fact that in those years, in India, Indira Gandhi administration was opening the door to manufacture textile fibres from private individuals and Mukesh's father had applied for a permit getting it while his son was in the United States. Mukesh was forced to return to help the family in the realization of Reliance Industries which would be born shortly.
The presence of Mukesh in family company resulted in an increase esponensiale thanks to its great views. Initially devoted exclusively to the textile industry, Reliance has expanded its field of action and even polyester products, petrochemistry, oil refining, gas and exploration.
21 – Sergey Brin ($ 22.8 billion)
39 years old – resident of Los Altos, CA (USA) – Married – 2 children – sector: data processing (Google)
We cannot talk about Brin without nominating Page, question the co-founder of Google with Larry Page.
Born in Russia, Sergey is an American immigrant computer entrepreneur at the age of 6 years with his family. His father was a Professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland and his mother a researcher of NASA. After studying mathematics at the University where his father taught, Sergey decided to specialize in computer science at Stanford where he met his colleague Larry.
It was during a day of orientation for newcomers that they had to see each other for the first time, Brin was a student at Stanford for two years and made by Cicero to newcomers. The Union of their ideas led to the creation of the largest search engine in the world.
Today Sergey Brin is the Director of special projects and spends most of his time with "Google" Glass ", a product to wear that will see the light in 2014
20 – Larry Page ($ 23 billion)
40 years old – resident of Palo Alto, CA (USA) – Married – child – Sector 1: data processing (Google)
His real is Lawrence, but they all know him as Larry, who along with a friend named Sergey Brin created the most visited site in the world, Google.
Born in Lansing, Michigan by a father and a mother who is passionate about computers and computer science teachers. He graduated in computer engineering at the University of Michigan and has a Master in Computer Science at Stanford University and it is precisely in this last University that he met Mr Brin.
During a search in which Page and Brin studied the link between the various sites present online, created a virtual spider that was sailing between the various sites and exploring connections, had just created the "PageRank", a product that would lead to the success of their search engine. Aware of the enormous importance of Pagerank, they understood immediately that would have brought enormous benefits if used within a search engine.
In 1998, Brin and Page founded Google, a company that needs no explanation.
Today, Larry Page is the CEO of Google Inc. position occupied until 2011 by Eric Schmidt and his company knows no crisis so much so that in 2012, the shares have had a rise of 30%.
19 – Jeff Bezos ($ 25.2 billion)
49 years old – resident of Seattle (USA)-Married-4 children – industry: e-commerce (Amazon.com)
Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen, known as "Jeff", is the entrepreneur who played a key role in the growth of ecommerce as the founder and owner of Amazon.com, a site of Commerce who started his adventure with the sale of books and that over the years has expanded its range to the point that they sell practically anything you can imagine.
After graduating from Princeton, Jeff initially worked in it on Wall Street then has created a network for international transactions for a company called Faz, later, he also worked for a banking group of Bankers Trust name in which he was also Vice-President.
Bezos founded Amazon in 1994 after a trip from New York to Seattle writing the business plan along the way. Initially, the company had the seat in his garage and Jeff left his well-paid job when he noted that the Internet was growing strong and the fact that American State not taxed sales outside the State, decided to start his adventure in Washington State because he was sparsely populated, and then the vast majority of Americans would buy without VAT.
Today Amazon is present worldwide with offices in Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa and of course United States.
In 2000, Jeff founded Blue Origin, a company of space travel for the general public and despite one of his prototypes lost during a test flight, the project is still alive and the founder hopes to deliver the first passengers as soon as possible.
It is a very careful that you know adapt to the changes recently, noting that sales of eBooks were significantly increasing, decided to create a device specially created for them and the price. The ebook has got a great feedback from readers and today there are several very popular models. The Amazon also gave the opportunity to all online stores to open a window on the same site in order to take advantage of the famous platform to sell their products with enormous advantages for sellers and increasing the already huge catalog of Amazon.com.
18 – Karl Albrecht ($ 26 billion)
93 years old – resident of Germany – Married – 2 children – industry: Supermarkets
Karl Albrecht owns the Aldi South, the huge German supermarket chain that counts 4600 speciality in 9 Nations in 2012 only grew by 9%.
Karl started working in small family store with his brother Theo immediately after the second world war and during its existence had the merit of turning a simple shop in one of the largest supermarket chains in the world. The collaboration with his brother lasted until 1961 when the two decided to split the company into Aldi North and Aldi South to manage the Empire. Karl went south over the rights to the opening in the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia while Theo (died 2010) was the northern part and the rights to European subsidiaries.
The Aldi has always gained immense popularity because of low prices caused by an excellent internal economic management, in fact, still you can not pay with a credit card in order to minimize operating costs.
Today, because of his advanced age, stepped back giving the reins to his sons and grandchildren.
17 – s. Robson Walton ($ 26.1 billion)
69 years Residing in Bentonville, AR (USA) – Married – 3 children – industry: Supermarkets
Robson Walton, said Rob, is the eldest son of the founder of Wal-Mart, Sam Walton. From 1992 he sits at the head of the company founded by his father Sam and his uncle James in 1962 and today Bill 444 billion dollars and employs 2.2 million people.
After finishing his studies at the University of Arkansas in 1966 initially worked at a legal firm that handled the Affairs of Wal-Mart, then in 1978 he joined the family business. The April 7, 1992, two days after the death of his father, became President of Wal-Mart, a position he holds to this day.
16 – Alice Walton ($ 26.3 billion)
63 years – living in Fort Worth, TX (USA) – Divorced – industry: Supermarkets
Alice is the only female heiress of the Wal-Mart chain and oddly does not deal with family affairs. His interests range from philanthropy to art but his greatest passion is horses, owns a huge ranch in Texas that holds it on a daily basis.
In 2012 has earned 440 million by dividends of Wal-Mart.
15 – Sheldon Adelson ($ 26.5 billion)
79 years old – resident of Las Vegas, NV (USA) – Married – 5 children – industry: Casinos
Born in Boston, August 4, 1933 Sheldon is the founder of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, connected to the Venetian Macao which controls and operates the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino and the Congress Centre Sands Expo.It is also owner of Israeli newspaper Israel Is Yom.
From a modest Jewish family, his father was a taxi driver and his mother owned a shop selling Accessories for knitting. His entrepreneurial life begins when she was just 12 years old when he sold newspapers, while 16 years began selling candy vending machines.
The main source of Sheldon's wealth comes from the COMDEX computer trade show, which he founded in 1979 and which still today is the most important event in the computer world. In 1995, the COMDEX was sold to SoftBank Corp. for $ 862 million. From this sale, Sheldon grossed over $ 500 million. In 1998, together with other partners, Mr. Adelson bought the Sand Hotel and Casino and from here he began his adventure in the world of Resort and Casino opening some in Macau and Singapore and with projects in the pipeline for Japan and Europe.
14 – Jim Walton ($ 26.7 billion)
65 years – Residing in Bentonville, AR (USA)-Married-4 children – industry: Supermarkets
Another heir to the largest supermarket chain in the world, Wal-Mart, is Jim Walton.
Today sits at the head of the Arvest Bank with several branch offices in Bentonville, AR. In the last presidential election, has donated 100 thousand dollars to Mitt Romney for his election campaign.
13 – Michael Bloomberg ($ 27 billion)
71 years – living in New York (USA) – 2 children – sector: Finance (Bloomberg LP)
Current Mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg is already planning on what he will do once the mandate, eradicate violence with weapons.
Born in 1942, his wealth does not derive from political activity (going to finish his third term as Mayor of New York) in fact, perceive only 1 Dollar a year as salary, but by its financial information channel called Bloomberg LP. It is a financial information network launched in 1982 after he was fired from Salomon Brothers , which has been successful thanks to specially designed terminals that today you can find in all the major companies operating in high finance without counting the famous TV channel Bloomberg greatly appreciated by all investors.
Bloomberg does not live in the City Hall (home of the Mayor), but prefer to stay in his apartment in the Upper East Side of Manhattan and commuting to work by subway.
12 – Stefan Persson ($ 28 billion)
65 years – residing in Sweden – Married – 3 children – sector: Clothing
President of affordable clothing chain Hennes & Mauritz, commonly known as H & M, Stefan Persson has recently made headlines for his real estate investments is nothing short of excellent. He purchased the entire village of Linkenholt in England and is possessed of an entire block in Paris and became the close of Moschino, Burberry and Bally.
In 1979 Stephen became President of the company founded by his father in 1947. During his presidency has been very active in the expansion of trademark family arriving at 2629 shops in 45 countries. Today, Stefan is trying to inculcate his modus operandi to his son Karl-Johan who currently plays the role of CEO.
Persson is a big fan of skiing, tennis and golf, activities.
11 – Christy Walton & family ($ 28.2 billion)
58 years old – resident of Jackson, WY (USA) – Widow – child – Sector 1: supermarkets
Wife of John Walton (died in an airplane crash in 2005), Christy has inherited the properties from her husband and is now the richest woman in the United States.
Why has a superior to other members of the Walton family derives from John Walton's investment in First Solar, but the recent losses have reduced the advantage over their brothers Walton.
In 2012 he received a cheque for $ 430 million arising from dividends of Wal-Mart the company founded by his father-in-law.
10 – Bernard Arnault & family ($ 29 billion)
64 years – residing in France – Married – 5 children – sector: Luxury
Luxury Tycoon Bernard Arnault was born in Roubaix, France in 1949. He graduated in engineering in 1971, has been married twice and has five children.
His business started in his father's company, Férinel, in buildings that Bernard has geared towards the Real Estate, particularly in the holiday.
After visiting the Christian Dior in the United States, Bernard returned to France and was hired as CEO of Financière Agache, a company dealing with luxury goods. With the help of Antoine Bernheim of Lazard Frères et Cie, acquired Boussac, a textile company that owned the Christian Dior, supermarkets Le Bon Marché, Conforama stores and diaper company Peaudouce. This operation was carried out with only $ 15 million from family Arnault, the remaining 80 Million were disbursed by Lazard. Following a check from 2 Billion francs from the Government with the promise that it would keep all 16000 jobs. Meanwhile, Bernard sold almost all the assets of the company, keeping only the Christian Dior group and Le Bon Marché.
In 1987, he founded LVMH, a group dedicated to the luxury that is enlarged over the years with numerous acquisitions and today owns the brands Christian Dior, Louis Vuitton, Moet & Chandon, Hennessy, Givenchy, Veuve Cliquot, Céline, Kenzo, Guerlain, Marc Jacobs, Sephora, Fendi, DKNY and other famous brands internationally.
9 – Liliane Bettencourt & family ($ 30 billion)
90 years – France – resident Widow – 1 daughter – sector: cosmetics (L'oreal)
At the age of 90 years, Liliane is the richest woman on the planet, the family owns 30% of the famous cosmetic brand founded by his father, L'oreal and this year their heritage has had a huge positive jerk thanks to the excellent performance of the cosmetics industry in France. His heritage is by 2011 under the supervision of his daughter Francoise Bettencourt-Meyers after a long legal battle and the control of the company passed to his nephew 25-year-old Jean-Victor Meyers. The family has been the victim of numerous internal legal battles including that of 2008 when Liliane gave $ 1 billion to his friend Francois-Marie Banier, who according to his daughter took advantage of the illness of his mother, Liliane in fact suffers from dementia.
8 – Li Ka-shing ($ 31 billion)
84 years residing in Hong Kong – Widower – 2 children – sector: Diversified
The richest man in Asia recently added $ 5.5 billion to its already substantial account thanks to the excellent performance of its shares.
At 84 years old, Lil is still head of the Hutchinson Wampoa one of the few companies on the planet to be able to be called "Empire", with its employees in 52 countries 260000. The company of Li Ka-shing is an Investment Holding Company based in Hong Kong and is the largest company listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange, in his hands are the biggest ports in the world and a huge telecommunications network under the brand name 3.
Li is also the owner of the gas distributor company Wales & West Utilities and provides gas for a quarter of the British population.
In 2012 he planned succession of his empire leaving their sons Victor and Richard, and meanwhile also has expanded its interests with dimensions in new economy companies including Facebook, Spotify, Kaiima, Everything.me and Hola.org.
6 – David Koch ($ 33 billion)
72 years-living in New York (USA) – Married – 3 children – sector: Diversified
Together with his brother Charles, occupies the sixth place of the rich in the world and is at the head of Koch Industries, specifically in the branch of chemical equipment. In the last year, its assets grew by $ 9 billion due to losses in the natural gas sector (their direct competitors).
It is very active in politics and has recently bet on Obama's loss, despite having lost the bet, his passion remained unchanged.
6 – Charles Koch ($ 34 billion)
77 years old – resident of Wichita, KS (USA) – Married – 2 children – sector: Diversified
The man who occupies the sixth place along with his brother David, built his empire with the refineries and the chemical industry, the place where lie last year due to the exponential of the natural gas falling. Koch Industries with a turnover of $ 115 billion, has seen its value increase of more $ 20 billion.
Things were not quite as positive for Charles in the political sphere, in fact, his attempt to bring down President Obama in the last election was a real failure.
5 – Larry Ellison ($ 43 billion)
68 years old – resident of Woodside, CA (USA) – Divorced – 2 children – sector: Software
Larry Fortune relies on one of the best "database management system (DBMS) in the market manufactured by Oracle, scompany he founded in 1977.
Born in New York in 1944, Larry was adopted by his aunt and knew her mother to 48 years.
In 70, after a brief stint with the Amdahl Corporation, Larry was able to work for Ampex Corporation where was interested in database for the CIA, this is the starting point that would bring Larry in the Olympus of the richest in the world until accuparne the fifth position. All thanks to a database system he created and named Oracle (inspired by the Charter of Edgar f. Codd) and that despite strong competition from both IBM and Microsoft 's, knew very well establish itself on the market.
Recently, larry was very active in the real estate, bought the 98% of the Hawaiian island of Lanai from David Murdock for about $ 500 million and was possessed of two villas in Malibu for a total value of $ 55 million. It is said that he was also interested in the NBA team Sacramento Kings who wanted to buy to keep them in Seattle and as far as his other passion, sailing, Larry has a Team participating in the Americas Cup. All passions safely dealt with because his company is in continual growth and last year had an increase of 20%.
4 – Warren Buffet ($ 53.5 billion)
82 years – living in the United States – Widowed 3 – children – sector: Diversified
Born on August 30, 1930, Warren is an entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist, and is considered the most successful investor of the twentieth century. Today sits at the head of Berkshire Hathaway , the company that handles his immense wealth.
Billions of Buffet come mostly from acquisitions and stock sales ranging in virtually every sector. In 2012 he acquired the famous trademark of Heinz Ketchup for $ 23.2 billion and in the same year he is possessed of the Oriental Trading Co., a company that specializes in supplies for the holidays, for $ 1.2 billion.
In December 2011, Warren has donated $ 1.5 billion in charity to the Gates Foundation , bringing to $ 17.3 billion the total of his works of philanthropy, while in December 2012, on his birthday, has donated a further 3 Billion humanitarian Association for children.
Even today, despite advanced age, no one knows who will be the heir of his empire.
3 – Amancio Ortega ($ 57 billion)
77 years old – resident in Spain – Married – 3 children – sector: Clothing
The Spanish entrepreneur Amancio Ortega is an annual gain of $ 19 billion, the man who has earned more in 2012 and for the first time the podium of the richest in the world. He recently left the post as Chairman of Inditex, best known for her trademark Zara, in 2011, but still retains 60% of the company continues to see its shares rise in dizzying fashion.
Amancio also owns numerous luxury real estate worth approximately
4 billion $ purchased at discount prices due to the economic crisis. Among its properties is the Torre Picasso, a 43-story skyscraper located at Madrid (home to the offices of Google) that has purchased in 2011, but owns several buildings in London, Chicago, San Francisco and New York.
The son of a railwayman, Amancio began working as a clerk in a shop selling shirts. Together with his wife Rosalia Mera (also a Billionaire), began producing clothes in your living room. In 2012, the Spanish TV networks gave the news that Amancio would pay half a million $ the paparazzi to make these not give annoyance to his daughter Marta during the honeymoon in Cambodia and Australia. Marta, who works for the family company, is now pregnant and it seems that the heir is a boy.
2 – Bill Gates ($ 67 billion)
57 years old – resident of Medina, WA (USA) – Married – 3 children – sector: computer science
William Henry "Bill" Gates, the most generous person on the planet says that for him the important thing and succeed in eradicating some lethal diseases as Polio and Malaria and it doesn't matter if people remember or not. The computer Tycoon has already donated $ 28 billion through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation lowering infant mortality in less fortunate countries and has also committed a lot to convince other Billionaires to become supporters of its foundation. Followed Warren Buffett, Richard Branson, Azim Premji and 105 other Billionaires including Carlos Slim.
The Gates Empire has increased to 6 Billion over the past year and without the help of the company that he founded, Microsoft, which still holds the 5%. Nowadays, Bill's investments in a variety of fields, ranging from Bonds to shares through private equity.
The story that brought Bill to be one of the richest men on the planet (occupied the first position for 14 years) is one of the most well known and preserved. In January 1975, reading an article "Altair 8800 computer, Gates sought to contact the producers of this computer with an operating system, the" BASIC ", actually split a row not Gates of the operating system that was proposing, but managed to start a collaboration. Followed the same technique as with the IBM and when Gates noted that the operating system supplied by him was starting to succeed, claims that users pay a fee to use it.
Microsoft was born in November 1976 and always has been the leading supplier of operating systems (initially Basic and then with the various editions of Windows), browser (Explorer) and Office software (MS Office). In recent years it has been a great success with the console (XBOX) and with a variant of operating system for mobile devices (Windows Mobile).
1 – Carlos Slim Helu & family ($ 73 billion)
73 years – residing in Mexico – Widower – 6 children – sector: Telecommunications
Carlos Slim is the richest man in the world for the fourth consecutive year, has $ 4 billion more than in 2012 thanks to the excellent performance of its financial group, Grupo Financiero Inbursa.Despite these excellent performances, his most important and profitable company remains the mobile telephony giant America Movil with a value of $ 36.3 billion; the company has continually expanded coming to conquer the European market with the acquisition of Dutch KPN and the Austrian Telekom Austria.
Mexican Tycoon's interests range even in very profitable sectors ranging from mining to real-estate, passing for infrastructure. Carlos doesn't take up any executive position in any company that controls even if it is very present in strategic activities. His sons Carlos, Marco Antonio and Patrick manage the financial, industrial and telefonica of Empire.
Carlos was born in Mexico City in 1940 from a modest family of Lebanese origin and since little was taught commercial and financial techniques from his father. In 12 years he bought his first shares of a Mexican Bank and 17 years earned 200 pesos while working in the family business. He studied engineering in Mexico City and University while he deepen the methodologies used by the Trader.
His brilliant career consists of continuous acquisitions of companies operating in each field, until the early 1990s, when there was the mobile phone boom that brought Carlos to the Olympus of billionaires and they concentrate in the telecommunications sector.
Carlos Slim is also a great philanthropist and a football fan, owns two professional soccer teams.
This list is not a simple list of who owns what, but a real summary of the life of billionaires of 2013.
49 – Michael Dell ($ 15.3 billion)
48 years old – resident of Austin, Texas (USA) – Married – 4 children – sector: computer science
Born in 1865 to a family originating from Germany, Michael Dell has proved to be a successful entrepreneur. At the age of fifteen, after days spent in the chains of Informatics to dream, buys his first computer, an Apple II, which disassemblò to understand how it was done, in the meantime, while attending high school, he sold magazine subscriptions. Michael noted that the majority of those who bought tickets were about to move to his home town, he thought then check all marriage certificates and requests for mortgages in the area so you have a large number of people that shortly they would be transferred. Using this technique, in that year he managed to earn $ 18000 with a simple chore, much more than earned his professors.
While attending the course Pre-Med (Hall of the Faculty of Medicine) at the University of Texas at Austin, to round Michael began selling pieces to update your PC from his room, 2713 of Dobie Center, and shortly thereafter decided to perform this job with a commercial license in order to sell to local firms. This move proved to be successful as it managed to maintain the lowest prices of the competition not having any expense arising from a physical store. This made immediately understand the enormous potential Of direct sales without outlets in January 1984 recorded his first company and since that day, there was a continuous rise.
In 1992, 27 years, Michael Dell became the youngest Ceo to appear on the list of Fortune, in 1996 began selling PCs online and created its first server and in 2001 the 12.8% of computers sold worldwide were "Dell" arriving at a rate of 34.3% while other companies lost ground.
49 – Leonardo Del Vecchio ($ 15.3 billion)
Leonardo Del Vecchio, the undisputed king of glasses, is the founder of Luxottica, the world's largest and leading manufacturer of glasses in the world. Over the years, has been able to expand its empire with popular international brands and today owns the two largest chains of American optical, Sunglass Hut and LensCrafters in addition to two historical brands worldwide, Oakley and Ray-Ban.
The enormous capacity of the Luxottica to penetrate new markets, such as expanding Chinese, has allowed the group to increase the profit of 16% in the first nine months of 2012 with a huge appreciation from shareholders. As a result, by March 2012, the old book have added additional 4 billion dollars.
Just 7 years after the death of his father, Leonardo was sent to boarding school. Some time later, he worked as an apprentice in a factory that made car parts and eyeglass frames, hence was born the idea that would have made him one of the richest men in the world. Luxottica was founded in 1961, now owns 7100 stores and is carried out by 65000 workers. Claudio, the son of Leonardo, owns the Brooks Brothers that in addition to selling menswear, obviously Luxottica products sells.
Leonardo Del Vecchio is the second richest man in Italy
47 – Leonid Mikhelson ($ 15.4 billion)
The enormous luck of Leonid has increased by about $ 4 billion in the last year thanks to the excellent performance of petrochemical group Sibur Holding, which owns a huge slice. The company has managed to completely and to pay them back 1 Billion in dividends, but the possessions of Mr. Mikhelson do not end here, owns 25% of the another massive gas company, Novatek, who directs personally.
Mikhelson was proposed to sit at the head of the Novatek in 1987 who at the time was building pipelines, roads and industrial facilities and it is thanks to his foresight that the company was able to expand exponentially until today's levels. Leonid immediately began to rearrange the interests of Novatek acquiring permits for the production of oil and gas in the form of payments for work performed. In 2006, Gazprom acquired a 20% stake in Novatek, this move was seen by many as an act necessary for the survival of the company.
46 – Rinat Akhmetov ($ 15.4 billion)
The son of a miner, Rinat knew how to take advantage of the recent privatization in Ukraine by purchasing 5 coal mines last year. His company, DTEK already controls more than 60 percent of coal production in Ukraine. Besides the SCM (System Capital Management) that controls numerous companies in various branches including the Metinvest, one of Europe's largest companies operating in the field of steel.
Rinat graduated in economics at Donetsk National University and owns the football club Shakhtar Donetsk.
45 – Joseph Safra ($ 15.9 billion)
The Brazilian banker, Safra, is consolidating its position in Europe with the acquisition of the Swiss group in 2012 Bank Sarasin for $ 2 billion and then blend it together with its other European banking and holding company to its Bank of Bahamas in Bank j. Safra Sarasin.
His eldest son Jacob is in charge of the European side and the Safra National Bank of New York while other two sons David and Albert, dealing with Banco Safra, the seventh largest bank of Brazil (in terms of assets).
44 – Cheng Yu-Tung ($ 16 billion)
A native of Lunjiao, Shunde, Guangdong, he now lives in Hong Kong. Cheng was an admirable entrepreneur because it has diversified investments in many sectors all very profitable.
Owner of Chow Tai Fook Enterprises, a conglomerate that controls real estate companies, casinos, hotels, transport companies, precious metal, ports and telecommunications companies.
Cheng Yu Tung is also involved in Shun Tak Holdings and the Sociedade de Turismo e Diversoes de Macau Bank Group and Hang Seng Bank.
Today you are gradually withdrawing from the business by his son Henry and grandson Adrian and Sonia to command posts.
44 – Len Blavatnik ($ 16 billion)
This Russian-American billionaire, was recently found to have to fight with all his might against the recording industry continues to fall. After acquiring the third largest world's record label, Warner Music, for 3.3 billion dollars, had to refresh the entire workforce, reorganize the company and pay the enormous debts. Through his Holding Company Access Industries has invested $ 130 million in online music service Deezer and Warner Music acquired the label Parlophone for another 750 million. Thanks to these courageous maneuvers, Blavanik managed to maintain zero 2012 leaks even if the revenues are still pretty thin.
From this we can see that the luck of Len does not derive from music, in fact, this billionaire is entered in the list of the richest in the world thanks to a company founded in 1986, Access Industries, an international industrial group through which he could take advantage of Russian privatization and invest in many companies including the Alfa Group, the TNK, and UC Rusal, companies in the chemical, petroleum, mining and metallurgy, plastic.
Blavanik properties also include large international companies, including BASF.
43 – Aliko Dangote ($ 16.1 billion)
The cement magnate, is in first place among the richest on the African continent for the third consecutive year.
His empire is derived from 30 years of trading cement, flour and sugar. In October 2012 has sold his company dedicated to the manufacture of flour to South Tiger Brands grossing $ 190 million.
Today, in addition to the Dangote Group, also devoted himself to practicing Jogging every morning.
41 – Lakshmi Mittal ($ 16.5 billion)
The Indian steel magnate are lately losing many positions in the ranking of the richest in the world because of the enormous losses of his company, ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steelmaker. In 2012, its shares lost about $ 4 billion because of reduced exports to Europe.
Lakshmi has been forced to sell some of its international companies in the United States, Canada and France to reduce losses and recently threw in a new venture with another Billionaire, Rattan Tata (Tata Group owner), a new Indian airline.
Mittal lives in London with his family and despite being the richest man in Britain, is not a citizen Brtitannico.
41 – Mikhail Fridman ($ 16.5 billion)
Alfa Group, the company that Fridman checking together with two other partners, is the largest financial and industrial group in Russia.
The "self-made man" who in his youth was selling theater tickets in 1986 graduated from the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys and a few years later he founded the Alpha Group along with two fellow University students. Initially, the company dealt exclusively with financial products, but it's enough just to let him expand the interests in other fields including oil, gas and telecommunications.
In 2012, Alfa Group has sold 50% of the oil sector to Hwy Rosneft for $ 28 billion, while telefonica was sold to Russian billionaire Usmanov for $ 5.1 billion but not 2012 was composed of sunshine sales, in fact, the VimpelCom (subsidiary of Alfa Group) bought the telephone holding company of Egyptian billionaire Sawiris to become the sixth-largest telephone company on the planet.
Alfa Group also owns the Alfa Bank, the largest private bank in Russia.
40 – German Larrea Mota ($ 16.7 billion)
Mexican entrepreneur born July 8, 1941, is the CEO of Grupo Mexico the most important mining corporation of Mexico and the third largest copper producer in the world.
In his long career, German Larrea was Chairman of the Board, President and CEO of Grupo Mexico since 1994. He also occupied the role of Managing Director in Southern Copper Corporation (another mining company), in Grupo Ferroviario Mexicano,Empresarios Industriales de Mexico, in the Compania Perforadora and other huge Mexican society.
The enormous luck of Sig. Larrea is derived from the fact that his family controls 51% of huge mining conglomerate.
36 – Georgina Rinehart ($ 17 billion)
Autraliana, born on 9 February 1954, is the only heiress of Hancock Prospecting (mining giant) that he received from his father Lang Hancock.
Recent declines in the value of iron they did lose 1 billion dollars to Georgina but this is the least of his problems as Mrs. Rinehart recently lost a major battle against Stan Perron concerning royalties on iron (his main source of income). It's currently in lawsuit against three of his four children as they cut them out of the family business by declaring that they were not capable of managing the enormous wealth. The youngest daughter Gina has full support from his mother and recently bought two condominiums on an island of Singapore for $ 45 million.
36 – John Mars ($ 17 billion)
John Mars and Forrest Jr. and Jacqueline, are the third generation to own the Mars Inc. They inherited the largest confectionary company in the world in 1999 upon the death of his father.
The company was founded in 1911 by john and today's grandfather Bill 33 billion $ per year with its products sold worldwide including the famous Mars bar, Milky Way and Snickers. In 1941, coins were introduced in the M & M's and their success is still undisputed ascendancy since 400 million are produced per day.
In 2008, Mars Inc. He completed the circle by acquiring a well-known brand internationally in the production of chewing gum, the Wrigleys
36 – Jacqueline Mars ($ 17 billion)
Along with his two brothers inherited the Mars Inc. who today runs with her children.
Jaqueline is a trustee of the u.s. equestrian team which in 2012 has donated 500 ' 000 $.
36 – Forrest Mars Jr. ($ 17 billion)
Born in 1931, is the eldest of the brothers, heirs of Mars Inc.
In addition to owning a third of the world's largest confectionery company in the world, is also owner of a ranch "The Diamond Cross Ranch" by 33000 Hectares. Forrest is very active in activities against pollution and in Republican politics of the United States.
35 – Iris Fontbona & family ($ 17.4 billion)
Iris Fontbona is Hadronic Luksic's widow, died of cancer in 2005. His family controls Antofagasta is one of the largest copper mines in the world. They have also many dimensions in Quinenco (a company that specializes in food packaging and beverage production) and Playa Laguna (a chain of resort).
Although Iris is still an important figure within the group, the reins are managed entirely by children.
34 – Alisher Usmanov ($ 17.6 billion)
Majority shareholder of Metalloinvest (the company that deals with metals on behalf of Gazprom) and Megafon is also owner of television networks and the largest economic newspaper of Russia, the Kommersant and just as a hobby, has recently acquired the English football team Arsenal FC to follow his colleague Abramovich, without taking into account the share of Facebook which held until 2012 and that sold in the IPO grossing 1.3 billion. Really a man with many interests.
Originating from a modest family, Usmanov studied international studies at Moscow State Institute and in 1992 married a former gymnast. In 2012 has bought an Airbus A340-300 to 300 million and a Mega Yacht, the plane is called "Bourkhan" and the yacht "Davies", the names of his father and his mother.
33 - Jorge Paulo Lemann- ($ 17.8 billion)
Mr. Lemann is now the richest man of Brazil thanks to its shares in Anheuser-Busch InBev, the biggest brewer in the world. The world has focused the spotlight on Jorge and his associates at the beginning of 2013 when his investment firm, 3 g Capital along with Warren Buffet acquired Heinz, the largest producer of ketchup on the planet.
Large acquisitions and sale are not new to the beer magnate, in fact has many corporate transactions e.g. in 1998 sale to Credit Suisse First Boston of his investment bank Banco Garantia for $ 675 million, or his purchase of hamburger giant Burger King carried out together with the richest man in northern hemisphere Eike Batista.
Lemann also owns the advertising company Lojas Americanas and the Group of Real-Estate investments Sao Carlos Empreendimentos e Participacoes S.A. together with some of his associates.
Besides being an excellent businessman, Jorge is also a very good tennis player, has participated in an edition of Wimbledon.
32 – Alberto Bailleres & Family Gonzalez ($ 18.2 billion)
Alberto Bailleres, son of Raúl Bailleres, sits at the head of the second largest mining company in Mexico and the first world level with regard to silver. Also owns a chain of supermarkets and the only insurance company wholly owned by a single person of Mexico. He is a member of the ITAM (education) and possesses more financial companies as well as companies that manage bullfights.
His empire was inherited by his father, Raul, but Alberto has proved a man just as capable.
31 – Theo Albrecht Jr. & family ($ 18.9 billion)
Theo Jr. has inherited, along with his brother Berthold (1954 – 2012) an immense popular supermarket chain in Germany, ALVI (North).
The supermarket Empire was created just after World War II by Theo and Karl Albrecht, SR. his father and uncle respectively of heirs who transformed the little shop in a supermarket discount calling him precisely ALDI (short for Albrecht Discount). In 1961, the two founders decided to divide the company into two large groups with the same name, but operating in the North and in the South of the country so you can better manage the Empire.
Theo Jr. has inherited the same entrepreneurial spirit of his predecessors by continuing to grow exponentially, the area north of the already huge chain of discount stores.
30 – George Soros ($ 19.2 billion)
Hedge Funds Legend George Soros is Chairman of Soros Fund Management , which manages both his immense fortune that money belonging to its Foundations active in the humanitarian field.
Born in Budapest, Hungary, survived the Nazi occupation in Hungary and went to study at the London School of Economics where he acquired the notions that it would enter the Olympus of the billionaires.
In 1969 he founded the Quantum Fund Management, the first company that treats this will not ever, Hedge funds.
In 2012, despite an unprecedented international economic crisis, his actions were always active and have trailed in a sense, the entire u.s. market, thanks to a major bet on the Yen by George.
29 – Dieter Schwarz ($ 19.5 billion)
Dieter Schwarz is the heir of the second largest supermarket chain in Germany with branches throughout Europe, the Lidl.
Mr. Schwarz was for a long time on the list of the richest in the world until 1999, when intestò the Lidl to a Charitable Foundation, after a careful research, it was discovered that the Dieter Schwarz Foundation is a limited liability company with charitable purposes and not a charitable foundation with this, Dieter Schwarz is immediately returned to take up his position in the rankings compiled annually by Forbes.
26 – Thomas & Raymond Kwok ($ 20 billion)
The enormous wealth of the brothers Kwok and his family is treated as unique as there are news about the partitions.
The real estate tycoons in Hong Kong are owners of Sun Hung Kai Properties , the largest construction company and real estate management. Founded in 1963 by father, it is a non-British companies (even during the British rule) that today has 35000 workers including acquisitions experts, architects, engineers and economists. The main activity of the company is to build and then sell.
Another lucrative business that the brothers run is the SmarTone Telecommunications a mobile company that operates on the territory of Hong Kong.
Recently, have done much to speak of if due to a scandal about some payments in Exchange for political favors, but they have always denied any involvement.
Thomas attended London Business School while Raymond was first to Cambridge, then at Harvard.
26 – Carl Icahn ($ 14 billion)
Carl Icahn is a self-made man born in 1936. Great investor known worldwide for his work as Corporate Raider (entrepreneur with substantial capital acquires companies in debt thanks to very complex economic transactions).
Belonging to a Jewish family, he enrolled initially at the prestigious Princeton University and then at New York University School of Medicine but did not achieve a degree.
At the age of 25 years made his first entrepreneurial steps on Wall Street and at 32 years old he formed his first company, Icahn & co. A company specialized in consulting services for investors and high-risk investment. This same company was the real springboard of Carl as she could make huge profits by simply purchasing shares and sell them in short periods. With these techniques, future billionaire could achieve important positions in prestigious companies including Texaco, Philips Petroleum, Revlon, Time Warner, Motorola and many others.
Made a lot of talk about the purchase of the airline Trans World Airlines (TWA) in 85 despite the negative opinion of all members of the Board of Directors.
In his lifetime, he often used a method called Junk-Bond (garbage) to finance its operations.
26 – Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud ($ 20 billion)
Member of the Royal family, Prince Al-Waleed is a "self-made man". He studied in the United States and founded the Kingdom Holding Company, a company that specializes in various investments ranging from banking, telecommunications, real estate and media up to agriculture, catering, trade, electronics and automobiles. Some of the companies in which the Prince has invested include: Amazon, Time Warner, Apple, Coca-cola, Compaq, Citigroup, Disneyland Paris, eBay, Ford, McDonalds, Motorola, Procter & Gamble and many other ...
In 2012 he bought 3% of Twitter for $ 300 million was the first individual to order an Airbus A380.
He is currently the richest Middle Eastern capitalist.
24 – David Thomson & family ($ 20.3 billion)
The Canadian media mogul, grew up in Toronto, Canada, he attendedUpper Canada College and graduated in 1978 at the University of Cambridge.
The huge Empire being at the head of which was bequeathed by his father but before they can handle the reins independently, he has held many positions in several companies owned by the family and founded the Osmington Incorporated, an independent company that operates in the sports field and who owns the hockey team "Znamya" and "MTS Centre".
David Thomson became Chairman of Thomson Corp. in 2002 and participated in the acquisition of Reuters in renaming the company Thomson Reuters.
24 – Lee Shau Kee ($ 20.3 billion)
His interests range from real estate to services on the internet through hotels, restaurants, educational sector and stocks.
The actions of its mega construction company, Henderson Land, rose 40% in the last year, making it even more substantial the enormous wealth of Lee Shaw Kee said "Hong Kong Buffet".
23 – Michele Ferrero & family ($ 20.4 billion)
The Patriarch of the Ferrero has inherited the company from his father Pietro in 1950 and has turned into one of the largest producers of chocolate and candies wrapped in the world. Today, in addition to the world famous Nutella and Ferrero Rocher, also belong to the group the Tic Taccandy, the hazelnut chocolates, the Estathè and Pocket Coffee.
With 15 plants, subsidiaries and 22000 70 workers, Ferrero Group doesn't seem to feel any crisis.
In 2011, the Ferrero family has been shaken by a terrible news, one of two sons of Michael, Peter, came suddenly failed whilst in South Africa, today the reins of the company are in the hands of the second son Michael.
22 – Mukesh Ambani ($ 21.5 billion)
Despite its heritage has been reduced by $ 1 billion, Mukesh Ambani is the richest man in India for the sixth consecutive year.
Born on 19 April 1957 in Mumbai, he lived his early childhood along with his brother and two sisters in a small house with two bedrooms. He graduated in chemical engineering, he managed to come to Stanford University for an MBA by following one of the two years of the course. The reason for his departure from the prestigious American University comes from the fact that in those years, in India, Indira Gandhi administration was opening the door to manufacture textile fibres from private individuals and Mukesh's father had applied for a permit getting it while his son was in the United States. Mukesh was forced to return to help the family in the realization of Reliance Industries which would be born shortly.
The presence of Mukesh in family company resulted in an increase esponensiale thanks to its great views. Initially devoted exclusively to the textile industry, Reliance has expanded its field of action and even polyester products, petrochemistry, oil refining, gas and exploration.
21 – Sergey Brin ($ 22.8 billion)
We cannot talk about Brin without nominating Page, question the co-founder of Google with Larry Page.
Born in Russia, Sergey is an American immigrant computer entrepreneur at the age of 6 years with his family. His father was a Professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland and his mother a researcher of NASA. After studying mathematics at the University where his father taught, Sergey decided to specialize in computer science at Stanford where he met his colleague Larry.
It was during a day of orientation for newcomers that they had to see each other for the first time, Brin was a student at Stanford for two years and made by Cicero to newcomers. The Union of their ideas led to the creation of the largest search engine in the world.
Today Sergey Brin is the Director of special projects and spends most of his time with "Google" Glass ", a product to wear that will see the light in 2014
20 – Larry Page ($ 23 billion)
His real is Lawrence, but they all know him as Larry, who along with a friend named Sergey Brin created the most visited site in the world, Google.
Born in Lansing, Michigan by a father and a mother who is passionate about computers and computer science teachers. He graduated in computer engineering at the University of Michigan and has a Master in Computer Science at Stanford University and it is precisely in this last University that he met Mr Brin.
During a search in which Page and Brin studied the link between the various sites present online, created a virtual spider that was sailing between the various sites and exploring connections, had just created the "PageRank", a product that would lead to the success of their search engine. Aware of the enormous importance of Pagerank, they understood immediately that would have brought enormous benefits if used within a search engine.
In 1998, Brin and Page founded Google, a company that needs no explanation.
Today, Larry Page is the CEO of Google Inc. position occupied until 2011 by Eric Schmidt and his company knows no crisis so much so that in 2012, the shares have had a rise of 30%.
19 – Jeff Bezos ($ 25.2 billion)
Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen, known as "Jeff", is the entrepreneur who played a key role in the growth of ecommerce as the founder and owner of Amazon.com, a site of Commerce who started his adventure with the sale of books and that over the years has expanded its range to the point that they sell practically anything you can imagine.
After graduating from Princeton, Jeff initially worked in it on Wall Street then has created a network for international transactions for a company called Faz, later, he also worked for a banking group of Bankers Trust name in which he was also Vice-President.
Bezos founded Amazon in 1994 after a trip from New York to Seattle writing the business plan along the way. Initially, the company had the seat in his garage and Jeff left his well-paid job when he noted that the Internet was growing strong and the fact that American State not taxed sales outside the State, decided to start his adventure in Washington State because he was sparsely populated, and then the vast majority of Americans would buy without VAT.
Today Amazon is present worldwide with offices in Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa and of course United States.
In 2000, Jeff founded Blue Origin, a company of space travel for the general public and despite one of his prototypes lost during a test flight, the project is still alive and the founder hopes to deliver the first passengers as soon as possible.
It is a very careful that you know adapt to the changes recently, noting that sales of eBooks were significantly increasing, decided to create a device specially created for them and the price. The ebook has got a great feedback from readers and today there are several very popular models. The Amazon also gave the opportunity to all online stores to open a window on the same site in order to take advantage of the famous platform to sell their products with enormous advantages for sellers and increasing the already huge catalog of Amazon.com.
18 – Karl Albrecht ($ 26 billion)
Karl Albrecht owns the Aldi South, the huge German supermarket chain that counts 4600 speciality in 9 Nations in 2012 only grew by 9%.
Karl started working in small family store with his brother Theo immediately after the second world war and during its existence had the merit of turning a simple shop in one of the largest supermarket chains in the world. The collaboration with his brother lasted until 1961 when the two decided to split the company into Aldi North and Aldi South to manage the Empire. Karl went south over the rights to the opening in the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia while Theo (died 2010) was the northern part and the rights to European subsidiaries.
The Aldi has always gained immense popularity because of low prices caused by an excellent internal economic management, in fact, still you can not pay with a credit card in order to minimize operating costs.
Today, because of his advanced age, stepped back giving the reins to his sons and grandchildren.
17 – s. Robson Walton ($ 26.1 billion)
Robson Walton, said Rob, is the eldest son of the founder of Wal-Mart, Sam Walton. From 1992 he sits at the head of the company founded by his father Sam and his uncle James in 1962 and today Bill 444 billion dollars and employs 2.2 million people.
After finishing his studies at the University of Arkansas in 1966 initially worked at a legal firm that handled the Affairs of Wal-Mart, then in 1978 he joined the family business. The April 7, 1992, two days after the death of his father, became President of Wal-Mart, a position he holds to this day.
16 – Alice Walton ($ 26.3 billion)
Alice is the only female heiress of the Wal-Mart chain and oddly does not deal with family affairs. His interests range from philanthropy to art but his greatest passion is horses, owns a huge ranch in Texas that holds it on a daily basis.
In 2012 has earned 440 million by dividends of Wal-Mart.
15 – Sheldon Adelson ($ 26.5 billion)
Born in Boston, August 4, 1933 Sheldon is the founder of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, connected to the Venetian Macao which controls and operates the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino and the Congress Centre Sands Expo.It is also owner of Israeli newspaper Israel Is Yom.
From a modest Jewish family, his father was a taxi driver and his mother owned a shop selling Accessories for knitting. His entrepreneurial life begins when she was just 12 years old when he sold newspapers, while 16 years began selling candy vending machines.
The main source of Sheldon's wealth comes from the COMDEX computer trade show, which he founded in 1979 and which still today is the most important event in the computer world. In 1995, the COMDEX was sold to SoftBank Corp. for $ 862 million. From this sale, Sheldon grossed over $ 500 million. In 1998, together with other partners, Mr. Adelson bought the Sand Hotel and Casino and from here he began his adventure in the world of Resort and Casino opening some in Macau and Singapore and with projects in the pipeline for Japan and Europe.
14 – Jim Walton ($ 26.7 billion)
Another heir to the largest supermarket chain in the world, Wal-Mart, is Jim Walton.
Today sits at the head of the Arvest Bank with several branch offices in Bentonville, AR. In the last presidential election, has donated 100 thousand dollars to Mitt Romney for his election campaign.
13 – Michael Bloomberg ($ 27 billion)
Current Mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg is already planning on what he will do once the mandate, eradicate violence with weapons.
Born in 1942, his wealth does not derive from political activity (going to finish his third term as Mayor of New York) in fact, perceive only 1 Dollar a year as salary, but by its financial information channel called Bloomberg LP. It is a financial information network launched in 1982 after he was fired from Salomon Brothers , which has been successful thanks to specially designed terminals that today you can find in all the major companies operating in high finance without counting the famous TV channel Bloomberg greatly appreciated by all investors.
Bloomberg does not live in the City Hall (home of the Mayor), but prefer to stay in his apartment in the Upper East Side of Manhattan and commuting to work by subway.
12 – Stefan Persson ($ 28 billion)
President of affordable clothing chain Hennes & Mauritz, commonly known as H & M, Stefan Persson has recently made headlines for his real estate investments is nothing short of excellent. He purchased the entire village of Linkenholt in England and is possessed of an entire block in Paris and became the close of Moschino, Burberry and Bally.
In 1979 Stephen became President of the company founded by his father in 1947. During his presidency has been very active in the expansion of trademark family arriving at 2629 shops in 45 countries. Today, Stefan is trying to inculcate his modus operandi to his son Karl-Johan who currently plays the role of CEO.
Persson is a big fan of skiing, tennis and golf, activities.
11 – Christy Walton & family ($ 28.2 billion)
Wife of John Walton (died in an airplane crash in 2005), Christy has inherited the properties from her husband and is now the richest woman in the United States.
Why has a superior to other members of the Walton family derives from John Walton's investment in First Solar, but the recent losses have reduced the advantage over their brothers Walton.
In 2012 he received a cheque for $ 430 million arising from dividends of Wal-Mart the company founded by his father-in-law.
10 – Bernard Arnault & family ($ 29 billion)
Luxury Tycoon Bernard Arnault was born in Roubaix, France in 1949. He graduated in engineering in 1971, has been married twice and has five children.
His business started in his father's company, Férinel, in buildings that Bernard has geared towards the Real Estate, particularly in the holiday.
After visiting the Christian Dior in the United States, Bernard returned to France and was hired as CEO of Financière Agache, a company dealing with luxury goods. With the help of Antoine Bernheim of Lazard Frères et Cie, acquired Boussac, a textile company that owned the Christian Dior, supermarkets Le Bon Marché, Conforama stores and diaper company Peaudouce. This operation was carried out with only $ 15 million from family Arnault, the remaining 80 Million were disbursed by Lazard. Following a check from 2 Billion francs from the Government with the promise that it would keep all 16000 jobs. Meanwhile, Bernard sold almost all the assets of the company, keeping only the Christian Dior group and Le Bon Marché.
In 1987, he founded LVMH, a group dedicated to the luxury that is enlarged over the years with numerous acquisitions and today owns the brands Christian Dior, Louis Vuitton, Moet & Chandon, Hennessy, Givenchy, Veuve Cliquot, Céline, Kenzo, Guerlain, Marc Jacobs, Sephora, Fendi, DKNY and other famous brands internationally.
9 – Liliane Bettencourt & family ($ 30 billion)
At the age of 90 years, Liliane is the richest woman on the planet, the family owns 30% of the famous cosmetic brand founded by his father, L'oreal and this year their heritage has had a huge positive jerk thanks to the excellent performance of the cosmetics industry in France. His heritage is by 2011 under the supervision of his daughter Francoise Bettencourt-Meyers after a long legal battle and the control of the company passed to his nephew 25-year-old Jean-Victor Meyers. The family has been the victim of numerous internal legal battles including that of 2008 when Liliane gave $ 1 billion to his friend Francois-Marie Banier, who according to his daughter took advantage of the illness of his mother, Liliane in fact suffers from dementia.
8 – Li Ka-shing ($ 31 billion)
The richest man in Asia recently added $ 5.5 billion to its already substantial account thanks to the excellent performance of its shares.
At 84 years old, Lil is still head of the Hutchinson Wampoa one of the few companies on the planet to be able to be called "Empire", with its employees in 52 countries 260000. The company of Li Ka-shing is an Investment Holding Company based in Hong Kong and is the largest company listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange, in his hands are the biggest ports in the world and a huge telecommunications network under the brand name 3.
Li is also the owner of the gas distributor company Wales & West Utilities and provides gas for a quarter of the British population.
In 2012 he planned succession of his empire leaving their sons Victor and Richard, and meanwhile also has expanded its interests with dimensions in new economy companies including Facebook, Spotify, Kaiima, Everything.me and Hola.org.
6 – David Koch ($ 33 billion)
Together with his brother Charles, occupies the sixth place of the rich in the world and is at the head of Koch Industries, specifically in the branch of chemical equipment. In the last year, its assets grew by $ 9 billion due to losses in the natural gas sector (their direct competitors).
It is very active in politics and has recently bet on Obama's loss, despite having lost the bet, his passion remained unchanged.
6 – Charles Koch ($ 34 billion)
The man who occupies the sixth place along with his brother David, built his empire with the refineries and the chemical industry, the place where lie last year due to the exponential of the natural gas falling. Koch Industries with a turnover of $ 115 billion, has seen its value increase of more $ 20 billion.
Things were not quite as positive for Charles in the political sphere, in fact, his attempt to bring down President Obama in the last election was a real failure.
5 – Larry Ellison ($ 43 billion)
Larry Fortune relies on one of the best "database management system (DBMS) in the market manufactured by Oracle, scompany he founded in 1977.
Born in New York in 1944, Larry was adopted by his aunt and knew her mother to 48 years.
In 70, after a brief stint with the Amdahl Corporation, Larry was able to work for Ampex Corporation where was interested in database for the CIA, this is the starting point that would bring Larry in the Olympus of the richest in the world until accuparne the fifth position. All thanks to a database system he created and named Oracle (inspired by the Charter of Edgar f. Codd) and that despite strong competition from both IBM and Microsoft 's, knew very well establish itself on the market.
Recently, larry was very active in the real estate, bought the 98% of the Hawaiian island of Lanai from David Murdock for about $ 500 million and was possessed of two villas in Malibu for a total value of $ 55 million. It is said that he was also interested in the NBA team Sacramento Kings who wanted to buy to keep them in Seattle and as far as his other passion, sailing, Larry has a Team participating in the Americas Cup. All passions safely dealt with because his company is in continual growth and last year had an increase of 20%.
4 – Warren Buffet ($ 53.5 billion)
Born on August 30, 1930, Warren is an entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist, and is considered the most successful investor of the twentieth century. Today sits at the head of Berkshire Hathaway , the company that handles his immense wealth.
Billions of Buffet come mostly from acquisitions and stock sales ranging in virtually every sector. In 2012 he acquired the famous trademark of Heinz Ketchup for $ 23.2 billion and in the same year he is possessed of the Oriental Trading Co., a company that specializes in supplies for the holidays, for $ 1.2 billion.
In December 2011, Warren has donated $ 1.5 billion in charity to the Gates Foundation , bringing to $ 17.3 billion the total of his works of philanthropy, while in December 2012, on his birthday, has donated a further 3 Billion humanitarian Association for children.
Even today, despite advanced age, no one knows who will be the heir of his empire.
3 – Amancio Ortega ($ 57 billion)
The Spanish entrepreneur Amancio Ortega is an annual gain of $ 19 billion, the man who has earned more in 2012 and for the first time the podium of the richest in the world. He recently left the post as Chairman of Inditex, best known for her trademark Zara, in 2011, but still retains 60% of the company continues to see its shares rise in dizzying fashion.
Amancio also owns numerous luxury real estate worth approximately
4 billion $ purchased at discount prices due to the economic crisis. Among its properties is the Torre Picasso, a 43-story skyscraper located at Madrid (home to the offices of Google) that has purchased in 2011, but owns several buildings in London, Chicago, San Francisco and New York.
The son of a railwayman, Amancio began working as a clerk in a shop selling shirts. Together with his wife Rosalia Mera (also a Billionaire), began producing clothes in your living room. In 2012, the Spanish TV networks gave the news that Amancio would pay half a million $ the paparazzi to make these not give annoyance to his daughter Marta during the honeymoon in Cambodia and Australia. Marta, who works for the family company, is now pregnant and it seems that the heir is a boy.
2 – Bill Gates ($ 67 billion)
William Henry "Bill" Gates, the most generous person on the planet says that for him the important thing and succeed in eradicating some lethal diseases as Polio and Malaria and it doesn't matter if people remember or not. The computer Tycoon has already donated $ 28 billion through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation lowering infant mortality in less fortunate countries and has also committed a lot to convince other Billionaires to become supporters of its foundation. Followed Warren Buffett, Richard Branson, Azim Premji and 105 other Billionaires including Carlos Slim.
The Gates Empire has increased to 6 Billion over the past year and without the help of the company that he founded, Microsoft, which still holds the 5%. Nowadays, Bill's investments in a variety of fields, ranging from Bonds to shares through private equity.
The story that brought Bill to be one of the richest men on the planet (occupied the first position for 14 years) is one of the most well known and preserved. In January 1975, reading an article "Altair 8800 computer, Gates sought to contact the producers of this computer with an operating system, the" BASIC ", actually split a row not Gates of the operating system that was proposing, but managed to start a collaboration. Followed the same technique as with the IBM and when Gates noted that the operating system supplied by him was starting to succeed, claims that users pay a fee to use it.
Microsoft was born in November 1976 and always has been the leading supplier of operating systems (initially Basic and then with the various editions of Windows), browser (Explorer) and Office software (MS Office). In recent years it has been a great success with the console (XBOX) and with a variant of operating system for mobile devices (Windows Mobile).
1 – Carlos Slim Helu & family ($ 73 billion)
Carlos Slim is the richest man in the world for the fourth consecutive year, has $ 4 billion more than in 2012 thanks to the excellent performance of its financial group, Grupo Financiero Inbursa.Despite these excellent performances, his most important and profitable company remains the mobile telephony giant America Movil with a value of $ 36.3 billion; the company has continually expanded coming to conquer the European market with the acquisition of Dutch KPN and the Austrian Telekom Austria.
Mexican Tycoon's interests range even in very profitable sectors ranging from mining to real-estate, passing for infrastructure. Carlos doesn't take up any executive position in any company that controls even if it is very present in strategic activities. His sons Carlos, Marco Antonio and Patrick manage the financial, industrial and telefonica of Empire.
Carlos was born in Mexico City in 1940 from a modest family of Lebanese origin and since little was taught commercial and financial techniques from his father. In 12 years he bought his first shares of a Mexican Bank and 17 years earned 200 pesos while working in the family business. He studied engineering in Mexico City and University while he deepen the methodologies used by the Trader.
His brilliant career consists of continuous acquisitions of companies operating in each field, until the early 1990s, when there was the mobile phone boom that brought Carlos to the Olympus of billionaires and they concentrate in the telecommunications sector.
Carlos Slim is also a great philanthropist and a football fan, owns two professional soccer teams.
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