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US billionaire wins fake wine case
2013-04-12 13:50:54| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
US billionaire William Koch wins damages in a legal case he brought against a businessman who sold him two dozen bottles of fake wine.
Brasil Foods Names Billionaire Abilio Diniz as Chairman to Revive Growth
2013-04-09 23:37:13| Livestock - Topix.net
Shareholders of BRF-Brasil Foods SA, the country's largest foodmaker, named billionaire Abilio Diniz as chairman as the company seeks to revive growth and boost efficiency.
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Billionaire CEOs and Slave Labor? The Real Price of Cheap Fashion
2013-04-08 23:13:57| Apparel - Topix.net
How can a fast fashion retailer like Zara get by on supposedly 'razor-thin' margins while its CEO sits on a personal fortune of $57 billion? Just after Forbes released its list of 'Best Dressed Millionaires' , made up of fashion moguls hoarding enough cash to run their own small countries, the news came that Zara is under investigation yet again ... (more)
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Meet the US billionaire who wants to kill the Keystone XL pipeline
2013-04-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: Tom Steyer is a man at odds with himself. He made his fortune by founding a hedge fund with a keen interest in the energy sector, including leading oil, pipeline and mining companies. The firm also gobbled up stock in BP a year after its Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. All this should hardly make him a darling of environmentalists. Yet theres a green streak to Mr. Steyer one that led last year to something of an existential crisis: Climate change, the American billionaire...
Anti-Keystone Billionaire Rattles Democrats
2013-04-04 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politico: San Francisco billionaire Tom Steyer is giving Democrats a taste of the divisive, big-spending primary battles that have caused Republicans so much heartburn over the past four years. And he says it's for their own good. The former hedge fund trader-turned-philanthropist is bankrolling a far-flung political operation pushing environmental causes and candidates, including his pricey effort to torpedo the Keystone XL oil pipeline. He's increasingly drawing scrutiny for trying to take down the...
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