The oldest son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton has been chairman of the world's largest retailer since his father's death in 1992. With his two surviving siblings, Walton is a co-managing member of Walton Enterprises, the family's holding company that controls a 47 percent stake in Wal-Mart. Rob Walton personally owns about 339 million shares.
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Since the Academy of New Media Middle School in Columbus, Ohio, opened in 2011, it has scraped by, with its principal cleaning toilets and a math teacher pressed into service as school nurse. Only $250,000 in gifts from the Walton Family Foundation keeps the 85-student charter school alive.
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In 2003, Luis Amaral bought Eurocash SA, a Warsaw-based grocery business, for 120 million Polish zlotys ($30 million). The operation was losing money. Competitors were taking market share. Its owner, Jeronimo Martins SGPS SA, the Lisbon-based retail operation controlled by billionaire Alexandre Soares Dos Santos, wanted nothing to do with it.
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The richest people on the planet got even richer in 2012, adding $241 billion to their collective net worth, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a daily ranking of the world’s 100 wealthiest individuals.
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Bloomberg Markets’ inaugural list of the world’s richest people showcases the billionaires who pull the levers on the global economy. Their net worth totals $2.7 trillion, about the size of the gross domestic product of France, the fifth-biggest economy on the planet.
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Rwanda will import animals including lions and rhinos and invite five-star hotel developers to upgrade Akagera National Park in a project funded by investors including the head of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
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Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Inspired by a post on the website Above the Law, we asked our Bloomberg Billionaires Index colleagues to research the wealthiest lawyers in America.* None of their fortunes are from practicing law: Robert Rowling is number 5. He briefly practiced tax law before joining his father's oil and gas company. Number 4 is Randa Duncan Williams, daughter of oil billionaire Dan Duncan. New York's Richard LeFrak is number 3. He went into the family real estate business after law school. Number 2 is Richard Kinder. He practiced law in Houston, then joined his friend Ken Lay at Enron. And number 1 is Rob Walton, chairman of Wal-Mart. *Net worth as of November 16, 2012 (Source: Bloomberg)
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Clifford Chance LLP, the U.K.’s highest-grossing law firm, has formed an alliance with new Singapore firm Cavenagh Law LLP to expand its practice in the Southeast Asian city into litigation.
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Almost one-third of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s non-Walton-family shareholders voted against Chief Executive Officer Mike Duke and three other board members.
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The California State Teachers’ Retirement System will vote its 5.3 million Wal-Mart Stores Inc. shares against the entire board’s re-election amid a probe into alleged bribery in Mexican operations.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s June 1 annual meeting will feature Aerosmith and Cheap Trick as the warmup acts. The real entertainment starts when shareholders vote whether to re-elect the company’s board.
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