Terry Gou’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth & life story

Taiwanese tycoon Terry Gou has an estimated net worth of $6.61 billion as of July 2017, according to Bloomberg. Born Terry Tai-Ming Gou on October 8, 1950, he is the founder and chairman of Foxconn, a multinational electronics contract manufacturing company that is also known as Hon Hai. It is the largest electronics manufacturing services company in the world with contract for other companies such as Apple, Inc. It has factories in different countries but most of them are in mainland China, the largest exporter and employs 1.2 million people.
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John Paulson’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth & life story

American hedge fund manager, John Alfred Paulson, has a net worth of $6.63 billion in July 2017, according to Bloomberg. He is the founder and President of Paulson & Co., a New York-based hedge fund. The gold-denominated versions of his firm’s funds, where he is said to have most of his personal stash, have gained steadily. In 2010, his take-home pay was $4.9 billion, a record for the hedge fund industry. He is donating $15 million to a new maternity hospital in Guayaquil, Ecuador, where his father was born. Paulson became a billionaire in 2007 shorting subprime securities and earning a $3.5 billion payout. He got his start at Odyssey Partners, a private equity and hedge fund and later became managing director of M&A at Bear Stearns. He founded Paulson & Co in 1994.
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Charles Butt’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth & life story

American businessman and grocer, Charles Butt, and family has a net worth of $6.64 billion in July 2017, according to Bloomberg. Charles Butt best known for the HEB supermarket chain in Texas and northern Mexico.  The Texas-born Charles Butt started working as a bag boy at the age of eight in his father’s supermarket. His grandmother Florence Butt, founded H.E. Butt Grocery in 1905 from a small house in Kerrville, Texas. Charles Butt graduated from University of Wharton School with a Bachelor of Arts / Science and earned a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. He took over the family’s H-E-B supermarket chain in 1971.The H-E-B grocery chain now boasts an annual sales of over $15 billion and has stores in Louisiana and Mexico with headquarter in San Antonio. The firm’s Central Market gourmet and organic line increasingly competes with Whole Foods. H-E-B donates 5% of pretax profits to charity. The HEB brand has expanded into several different varieties over the years, including the Central Market brand, a Whole Foods inspired supermarket chain featuring a wide variety of gourmet options, cooking classes.
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Majid Al Futtaim’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth & life story

Majid Al Futtaim is a real estate developer and billionaire, and the estranged brother of billionaire Abdulla Al Futtaim. He has an estimated net worth of $6.78 billion in July 2017, according to Bloomberg. Majid Al Futtaim is the owner of Majid Al Futtaim Holding that is run by non-family members. It operates malls and supermarkets across the Middle East, including 48 Carrefour hypermarkets. It has rebounded from a depressed real estate market and losses then raised his net worth by $2.5 billion. In 2012, its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, were up by 7% on revenues of nearly $6 billion. It is heavily invested in Egypt through its City Center Malls and Carrefour, and is not backing away from the country’s turmoil. It is expected to start construction in Cairo in the first quarter of 2013 on a Mall in Egypt. Additional malls are expected in 2014 and 2015. Recently, it also offered the billionaire Mansour brothers around $250 to $300 million to buy their supermarket chain, Metro. The group is currently conducting due diligence.
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