There are so many different lists of the richest people in the world. As soon as they try to classify them: gender, nationality, profession. Most of the billions of dollars are generated in the investment business, fashion, retail and energy. However, there are other examples. Among the world's richest people, there are some who have created their own empires in not the most popular areas of business activity.
The richest African citizen - "Sugar King" Aliko Dangote, who occupies 51st place in the Forbes list with a fortune of $ 13.8 billion, a small trading firm founded in 1977, became in time a huge conglomerate, became the first major supplier sugar for the domestic producers of soft drinks, beer and sweets, and then the extension of the influence of the cement business not only at home, but in Benin and Ghana. New businesses are based in Zambia, Tanzania, Congo and Ethiopia, and shipping terminals - in Sierra Leone and Liberia.
Malaysian billionaire Lee Shin Cheng, the founder of IOI Group, nicknamed the "caster trees." He began with the release of oil palm, which is widely used in food, cosmetic and metallurgical industries. Now his team is engaged in project development in Malaysia, Indonesia, Europe and the U.S., ranking 208 th place in the list. But once Lee Shin Cheng, the Chinese shopkeeper's son who quit school at age 11, worked and lived on a rubber plantation, and did not take control in the palm plantation company Dunlop Estate. But 20 years later he returned and bought the company, which rejected it. That day Lee believes the happiest in my life.
Chu Lam Yu, president of the Hong Kong company Huabao International, did not receive an inheritance from their parents and other relatives. But in his 38 years in 2008, appeared on the Forbes list at 760th place with a fortune of $ 1.3 billion over ten years, starting with the perfume business and trade in spices, Chu has created a investment empire and now has moved to 409-e among the richest people on earth.
The richest and most famous American lawyer Joe Dzhameyla, occupying 833rd line with revenue of $ 1.5 billion, styled "King of the Civil Code." He is so in demand that the threshold rejects hundreds of cases, no matter how loud they seem. One recent suggestion was to conduct numerous lawsuits against BP, an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. "I'm too busy" - he replied. In 1985 he won the case between the oil companies Pennzoil and Texaco, which became the most expensive suit in history: Texaco had to pay a $ 11 billion, while fee Dzhameyla totaled $ 335 million thanks to him the producers withdrew three dangerous product: rifle, Remington 600, three-wheeled off-road Honda and drug Parlodel. He won more than 200 cases of personal injury compensation from more than $ 1 million each.
A former deputy chairman of the Ukrainian state company "Naftogaz Ukrainy" Oleg Bakhmatyuk now called the "chicken king". If in 2007 he sold his shares in gas companies and has not left the business, the success of which so much depends on the political climate is now unlikely he would have a profitable business. Instead, he focused on the purchased four years earlier in his native Ivano-Frankivsk egg production. Today, in his "egg empire" 19 poultry farms, 6 units for the production of feed, egg processing plant, three units for breeding breeder, 3 and 9 of storage farms in Ukraine.
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