Charles Koch

Charles Koch is the co-owner, chairman and chief executive officer of Koch Industries, one of the largest closely held companies in the world. The Wichita, Kansas-based firm operates in various industries including oil refining, pipelines, commodities trading, ranching and paper pulp, and has annual sales of $110 billion. He owns 42 percent of the company.

Charles Koch News

Unions Press Oaktree to Prevent L.A. Times Sale to Kochs

Labor groups are putting pressure on Tribune Co.’s largest shareholder to prevent the possible sale of the Los Angeles Times to billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch.
William Koch Must Face False Imprisonment Suit: Judge

William Koch lost a bid to dismiss a lawsuit by a former Oxbow Carbon & Minerals LLC executive alleging the billionaire held him captive at his Colorado ranch.
Koch’s Georgia-Pacific to Purchase Buckeye for $1.45 Billion

Georgia-Pacific LLC, the U.S. paper and pulp producer controlled by the Koch brothers, agreed to buy Buckeye Technologies Inc. for about $1.45 billion to add cellulose products used in baby wipes and tires.
Genes, Fake Wine, Martha Stewart: Intellectual Property

Inventors who want to emigrate from their native countries put the U.S. as their top destination, according to economists at the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva.
Billionaire William Koch Wins Trial Over Fake French Wine

Billionaire William Koch won a fraud lawsuit in which he claimed a consigner sold him 24 counterfeit bottles of wine from France’s Bordeaux region and may get punitive damages as the jury resumes deliberations.
Billionaire Koch Wins $12 Million Verdict in Wine Trial

Billionaire collector William Koch, after waging a $17 million legal battle over 24 bottles of counterfeit Bordeaux, was awarded $12 million in punitive damages by jurors, some of whom shook his hand after court.
Martha Stewart, GE, Merck, Mylan: Intellectual Property

Macy’s Inc. will ask a judge to expand the scope of his order blocking J.C. Penney Co. from selling goods designed by Martha Stewart’s company in certain categories even if they don’t carry her name or trademark.
America’s Fourth-Richest Woman Unveiled With Koch Stake

For the past six years, Elaine Tettemer Marshall, the fourth-richest woman in the U.S., has avoided the spotlight that ordinarily accompanies great wealth.
Koch Funneled $1.2 Million to Governors Battling Unions

Koch Industries Inc. and its employees and subsidiaries spent $1.2 million in the last election helping to elect Republican governors who are now trying to take away bargaining rights of state workers.
The World’s 200 Richest People

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.