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...early investor in cell-phone companies such as Voice Stream and Orange, which were sold for huge profits. The company operates mobile-phone networks in Europe, Asia and Australia, though analysts are questioning Li's unprofitable investments in next-generation, or 3G, mobile-phone networks. It has major retail holdings in Europe (Superdrug) and Hong Kong, and also owns ports in the Americas, including those at each end of the Panama Canal...
...animal feed and fertilizer. When Dhanin, the youngest of four sons, took over the company in 1964, he moved aggressively into poultry farming. A tie-in with Arbor Acres Farm of the U.S. added new technology and the concept of vertical integration--from feed to fowl to distribution, retail and fast-food outlets. And when Deng Xiaoping began the first capitalist reforms in China in 1978, CP was literally first in the door...
PHILIPPINES Sy SM GROUP Henry Sy is battling his kids to keep his burgeoning retail empire free of outside management. He'll lose 2003 Revenues: $1.7 billion...
...obsessed with selling matches to his neighbors (the business-savvy child would ride his bicycle from house to house). Success with matches led to other bulk products like fish, pencils and Christmas-tree decorations. Little did Kamprad know that his efforts would grow into a $12.2 billion multinational retail business with more than 150 instantly recognizable blue-and-yellow megastores...
...Stop by Urban Outfitters 26.2 times for a little “retail therapy...