Meet the Times' Newest Investor, Carlos Slim Helú
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Happy Times: Slim Helú
So Carlos Slim Helú, the richest man in Mexico and one of the richest in the world, has purchased a 6.4 percent stake in Times Company. Richard Pérez-Peña reports: "[Times Company] stock closed on Wednesday at $13.96 a share, down 4 cents, giving the Slim family’s 9.1 million shares, a value of $127 million."
David Luhnow wrote a wonderfully detailed portrait of Slim Helú in August 2007 for The Wall Street Journal, and we learned a lot about him, his fortune, the monopoly he controls in Mexico and his personality. Here's a sampling:
- He's an insomniac who stays up late reading about Ghengis Khan.
- He's a Yankees fan.
- He smokes Cuban cigars and his office is decorated with 19th-century Mexican landscape paintings.
- He's portly.
- His parents are Lebanese immigrants.
- He doesn't own any homes outside of Mexico.
- Between 2005 and 2007, he made about $27 million a day.
- He's chatty and avuncular, but he's got a short fuse.
- He sips Diet Coke.
- "Mr. Slim's strategy has been consistent over his long career: Buy companies on the cheap, whip them into shape, and ruthlessly drive competitors out of business."
- He was born rich.
- He doesn't use a computer.
- "Mr. Slim's fortune has grown faster than any in the world during the past two years, rising by more than $20 billion to about $60 billion currently."
- He controls companies in telecommunications, cigarettes, construction, mining, bicycles, soft drinks, airlines, hotels, railways, banking and printing.
- "While the market value of his stake in publicly traded companies could decline at any time, at the moment he is probably wealthier than Bill Gates, whom Forbes magazine estimated at $56 billion last March."
- "By putting together monopolies, much like John D. Rockefeller did when he developed a stranglehold on refining oil in the industrial era. In the post-industrial world, Mr. Slim has a stranglehold on Mexico's telephones."
GOD BLESS YOY MR CARLOS !I'M LEBANESE LIKE YOU!I FEEL PROUD WHEN I READ ABOUT YOU!
Dears Sir,
I would like to know Mr.Carlos Slim Helu's e mail address.
I'd love to look forward to hearing from you soon.
Kind Regards,
Oman Dinata
Dear Sir!
We are Ukrainian pharmaceutical company entering 10 liders of our country in this branch of activity. We have a serious business proposition for Mr. Slim Helu which might interest him. For this purpose we would like to know either his e-mail or post address or any other contact. We could arrive for personal negtiations with Mr. Helu if there is such a possibility. Anyway, first of all we want to write him an official letter so we would be thankful for Your help in receiving any contact of Mr. Slim Helu.
me also i want the email adress of Mr Salim
im richer than this guy i am a entreprenuer from canada im worth more than a trillion dollars
im richer than this guy i am a entreprenuer from canada im worth more than a trillion dollars
on m'appel yaovi je suis béninois et je suis élève au lycée technique coulibaly de cotonou .Je vous envoie cet e-mail pour soumettre un projet à l''attention de Mr slim carlos .Vu la pénerie du pétrole qui ronge le monde, j'ai eu à monter un projet qui non seulement appaisera un temps soit peu la crise pétrolière mais aussi la crise alimentaire.Ce projet consiste à la production d'étanol à base de canne à sucre qui sera cultivé sur une superficie 700000hectares ainsi que de mais de manioc de haricot qui seront cultivés sur une superficie de 2.300000 hectares qui seront exportés. Je ne pourrai vous donnez d'autres détails à part à slim carlos.J'aimerais bien que vous soyez slim carlos mon ange gardien
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Mr. Carlos, I was looking for a way to contact you. I'm from your family and I'm lebanese. May be we are cousins :-) . I'm so proud to know that a man from Slim's family is in that position. Please I want to know your e-mail so that I can contact you.
It says he doesn't use a computer right in the article...
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I know that it says in the article that he is not good with computer, but Mr.Slim must have away to be contacted. A PO BOX or what I think he has, a personal Assistance who screen his email and let him know of the important ones.
So I know the richest man in world must have a few email address, can I get one that is allow for the public to contact him? I will love to send him a very important message. It is a Blessing from our Lord that he has accomplished all, together with his dedication and hard work; getting there it takes more than just luck, he must also had to work hard and smart and a wonderful heart that GOD so it was worst of his blessing.