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Time passes slowly in India, but not for Sunil Mittal. Four years ago, the 45-year-old entrepreneur was a bit player in the Indian telecommunications market, the owner of cellular franchises in Delhi and the small neighboring state of Himachal Pradesh. Total customer base: 116,000. Today, his Bharti Tele-Ventures is the largest mobile phone company on the subcontinent. Customer base: 2.5 million. He recently wrapped up a $1 billion expansion that quadrupled the size of his network in less than a year. Mittal even completed an acquisition of a competitor?from initial offer to signed contract...
Microsoft to open up - the firm's own clients have clout too, and they may be the most persuasive. BEVERAGES Muslims Sip The 'Real Thing' as soft-drink marketing goes, it's a bit more inflammatory than "the real thing." "Each time someone buys a Mecca-Cola," says the entrepreneur who has taken orders for 1.5 million bottles of the drink in Europe, "they're saying to George Bush, and the war-criminal Sharon, we don't agree with your policies." Responding to calls for a boycott of U.S. products across the Middle East, French Muslim Tawfiq Mathlouthi has rolled...
...already a consummate showman. The talent was developed early. Born the first of four children, he took a variety of jobs?from selling newspapers to driving a minibus?to support himself before and after his years as an electrical-engineering student and a fledgling entrepreneur. But according to Ahmad Soliekhin, one of Aa Gym's closest aides and a former conductor on his minibus, it was their experience together as itinerant buskers that brought them the most success. "We used to get called back to the rich people's houses the next day for a repeat performance," says Ahmad, smiling...
...Yang's turn to be ambushed on Oct. 4, when the 39-year-old entrepreneur?who recently was chosen by North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il to run a special free-trade zone on the Chinese border?was escorted from his Shenyang home by police. Chinese authorities aren't saying why he is being held under "house supervision" or what crimes they think were committed. "Yang Bin and his enterprises in China are suspected of being involved in various illegal activities in China," Zhang Qiyue, China's foreign ministry spokeswoman, said last week without elaboration. Speculation ranges from tax evasion...
This seemingly multi-footed entrepreneur-turned-philanthropist is Gregory C. Carr, one of Harvard Square’s most quietly influential people...