LN Mittal is the richest person in S. Africa : Sify Finance

LN Mittal is the richest person in S. Africa

India-born steel tycoon Lakshmi Niwas Mittal, recently named as richest Indian in world with a fortune of $51 billion, has also been rated as the wealthiest person in South Africa.
Mittal has been named at the top for third consecutive year with a net worth of 27.3 billion rand ($4 billion) in the latest annual list of 100 richest in South Africa, compiled by that country's weekly 'The Sunday Times'.
This is based on his shareholding in Mittal Steel SA and represents only the value of his investments in South Africa. Last month, US business magazine Forbes named him as the richest Indian in the world with a net worth of $51 billion. In March, he was named as the world's fifth richest with a worth of $32 billion by Forbes.

Mittal, who is a resident of Europe, Russia and UK and has an Indian passport as well, also holds the title of richest person in Britain. According to the Sunday Times report, Mittal had 445.75 million shares in his company Mittal Steel SA as of March 31, 2007.

"The value of Mittal's 52.02 per cent shareholding in Mittal Steel SA has almost doubled," it said. In Sunday Times Richest 100 List of South Africa, Mittal was followed by NicNicky Oppenheimer of Anglo American Plc with fortunes worth 16.1 billion rand.
Patrice Motsepe, holding shares in African Rainbow Minerals Ltd and Sanlam Ltd, was named at the third position with a worth 13.5 billion rand.



Suzlon Energy in BCG list of 100 emerging giants

Wind energy major Suzlon Energy is the latest Indian company to have broken into the Boston Consulting Group’s list of top 100 emerging giants.
Releasing the report, titled ‘2008 BCG 100 new global challengers: How top companies from rapidly developing economies are changing the world’, at the India Economic Summit here on Monday, Arindam Bhattacharya, Managing Director, BCG, Delhi, and Jim Hemerling, MD, in the firm’s San Francisco office, along with Anand Mahindra of M&M, pointed out that companies from rapidly developing economies are globalising so quickly that they pose an urgent threat to industry leaders.

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