While most of these magnates make their money within the Philippines, several are pushing into new markets.
Some suspect an escapee from the White Tower, a biotech facility owned by the former steel magnates.
Software magnates Azim Premji and the founders of Infosys Technologies led by N.
Mingling with magnates like Lakshmi Mittal also offers the trio other means to cash out: a sale or merger.
The guest list was a veritable who's who of the region's biggest magnates, in fields ranging from banking to bananas.
Other people, ranging from little-known developers to magnates like Forbes 400 member Jorge Perez of Miami, put up the money and hire the contractors.
Named after a social club formed by mining magnates in 1882 in nearby Butte, Silver Bow aims to be exclusive but unpretentious.
We won't really know how these magnates match up until the ratings are in, but here's how we see it so far.
Coal magnates Nathan Tinkler and Tony Poli dropped off the list.
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If Britain's lottery magnates want scenes like that, it is the cash payouts, not the iffy good causes, that they should address.
In 2006 he called a meeting with the steel magnates of the country to ask them what else he had to do get their business.
Gregory's position came under further scrutiny when Formula One magnates Flavio Briatore and Bernie Ecclestone began the process of taking over the club.
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In the past three years, 15 builders, two textile magnates, two film producers and the owner of an airline have been killed by gangsters.
For other would-be Internet exchange magnates, Braziel has some advice: Spend the money on the front end to develop technology that traders will trust and use.
The incoming new owners at QPR - a group fronted by Formula One magnates Flavio Briatore and Bernie Ecclestone - were keen to appoint an Italian.
But at night, relaxing with an intimate group of American conservative magnates who have backed him over the years, Mr Netanyahu gave vent to his discomfort.
The owners of private jets in Nigeria typically range from corrupt high-flying politicians to oil magnates, business moguls and a few clergymen, the Punch article reports.
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From pirates off the coast of Somalia and on Wall Street to Greek and Norwegian shipping magnates, the education of Robert Fairchild is an expensive one.
And this week the Championship club, owned by Formula One magnates Bernie Ecclestone and Flavio Briatore as well as Indian billionaire Lakshmi Mittal, announced another hike in matchday prices.
Christmas tree growers are a diffuse bunch, ranging from Pacific Northwest magnates who harvest trees with helicopters, to mom-and-pop shops in the Carolinas that have choose-and-cut operations on their family farms.
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First, the company's insolvency heralds a shake-up in the European media industry, with politically-inclined magnates such as Rupert Murdoch and Silvio Berlusconi likely to gain a toehold in the continent's biggest market.
That might dilute the stakes which are held by some of the magnates who control these businesses, but would be a fair price to pay to resuscitate the balance-sheet of a vital industry.
In the early 1990s, Ratio's chief executive, Yigal Landau, from a family of infrastructure magnates, and Ligad Rotlevy, whose family textile business goes back 80 years, formed the company to search for oil onshore.
Founded in 1700 by Dutch colonists and stewarded by a long line of British mining magnates, the vineyards of Vergelegen had been left fallow by the time Anglo American bought the Western Cape estate in 1987.
This part of the bill caused it to be delayed after an opposition challenge in the Lords to stop media magnates such as Rupert Murdoch being able to buy broadcasters such as Five, formerly Channel 5.
In her position at the crux of Italy's crumbling cultural assets, Borletti plays to the dual interests of fashion magnates when she petitions them for funds: helping build their brands while saving their nation's rich aesthetic history.
Other metals magnates that are reportedly considering 2010 listings, and may be lured to Asia, include Alisher Usmanov and his company Metalloinvest, as well as coal miner Suek, controlled by Sergei Popov and Andrei Melnichenko.
So much so that I headed straight for Wall Street to survey the area's security guards, Duane Reade clerks, newsstand guys and doughnut cart magnates, not to mention the folks crowding the public atrium at 60 Wall St.
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