Posté le: Jeu 22 Sep 2005 15:25 Sujet du message: Existe t-il des milliardaires noirs et/ou noires ?
Salut à toutes et à tous
Ce n'est pas du tout une question bête car je me pose la question depuis un bon moment et pourtant malgré diverses recherches sur le net et dans les mags éco , je n'ai toujours pas eu de réponses .
Voilà car comme on sait tous , il existe des milliardaires blancs ( comme BILL GATES avec ses 48 milliards de dollars US et 1ère plus grosse fortune de la planète , WARREN BUFFET avec ses 41 milliards de dollars US et 2e plus grosse fortune de la planète , PAUL ALLEN avec ses 21 milliards de dollars US et 6e plus grosse fortune de la planète etc...) , des milliardaires indiens ( comme LAKSHMI MITTAL l'indien le plus riche au monde et 3e plus grosse fortune de la planète avec ses 25 milliards de dollars US ) , des milliardaires latinos ( comme CARLOS SLIM HELU le latino le plus riche au monde et 4e plus grosse fortune au monde avec ses 23.8 milliards de dollars US ) , des milliardaires arabes ( comme le prince saoudien AL WALEED BIN TALAL l'arabe le plus riche au monde et 5e plus grosse fortune au monde avec ses 23.7 milliards de dollars US ) , des milliardaires sino-asiatiques ( chinois , japonais , hongkongais , taiwanais etc... ) comme celui qui a acquis MARIONNEAUD etc... toutes ces infos je les ai eues sur le site officiel de FORBES mais le problème je n'ai vu aucun homme noir et aucune femme noire dans le classement des milliardaires en dollars US d'où je me pose la question qu'il doit sûrement exister des noirs africains , caribéens , sud-américains ou américains milliardaires en dollars US seulement je ne les connais pas .
Donc à vous grioonautes , connaissez-vous des hommes noirs et/ou des femmes noires qui détiennent au minimum 1 milliard de dollars US ( je ne parle surtout pas des noirs millionnaires en dollars US car je sais qu'il en existe plein comme OPRAH WINFREY ROBERT JOHNSON JAY Z ETC... ) et merci de citer vos sources s'il vous plaît ?
P.S : il ne s'agit surtout pas de débattre au cas où il existerait des hommes ou femmes noirs milliardaires dans le monde actuel sur ce qu'ils font pour la communauté noire et pour l'Afrique avec leur fortune colossale seulement je pense qu'il est bon d'informer les noirs du monde entier qu'il existe des milliardaires en dollars US dans notre communauté . Bien à vous et merci pour vos réponses .
Robert Johnson made himself rich by building BET into a premiere medium for black consumers. Now if only he could quiet his critics.
Robert L. Johnson has traveled the classic American journey from modest origins to unimaginable wealth. The ninth of ten children in a working-class family in small-town Illinois, he parlayed a $15,000 loan in 1979 into Black Entertainment Television, one of the cable industry's richest franchises.
He took it public in 1991, took it private at a $1.3 billion valuation in 1998--and then sold it to Viacom for more than double that earlier this year, netting himself $1.5 billion in Viacom stock for his 63% stake. The deal set him up to build BET, now in almost 70 million homes, into the premiere medium for reaching the U.S.' 35 million African-American consumers.It also makes him the first black billionaire, earning him the #172 slot on The Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans.
But for all his success, the 55-year-old executive is resented, even reviled, by some leading voices among the very audience he built his fortune catering to--black America. He has been denounced as a sell-out for striking the Viacom deal. Last March, when he fired low-rated talk show host Tavis Smiley, protesters blamed the move on the new "white" owners at Viacom. They dismissed Johnson as "a front man" and "the 2001 version of the dude who drove Ms. Daisy around."
BET, treasured by some as the only channel devoted to black entertainment, is trashed by others for a lack of social conscience, a surfeit of off-color comedy and a predilection for music videos rife with flashy cars, abundant cleavage and gyrating derrieres. To many black Americans, BET is like an ill-mannered relative--dearly loved, but a little embarrassing.
"The problem is how BET represents black people," says Thomas Joyner, a nationally syndicated radio host who has been pressing Viacom to improve the programming. "They've been running the same old stuff for 20 years. Shaking that booty in a video is fine, but you need a lot more than that."
Is this all the love and admiration that Bob Johnson deserves? He bristles at the criticism and calls it misplaced. Johnson is a pawn for no one. His 1.6% stake in Viacom makes him the second-largest individual shareholder in the media titan, trailing only Chairman Sumner Redstone. "I make too much money to be a front man," he says icily.
Johnson insists BET has done plenty to improve the lot of black Americans-and says that isn't his job, anyway. His mission is to build a profitable business and run it at maximum velocity. That entails giving viewers what they want and doing it as cheaply as possible. If blacks can benefit along the way, so much the better, but that is a byproduct. "We are the only black network in town, so everybody has poured their burdens and obligations on BET," Johnson says, "but we can't solve everybody's desires for BET. We have to be focused on running this as a profit maximization business."
And focus he does. With 70% of BET's lineup coming from free music videos supplied by the record labels, the channel musters pretax profit margins of 40%, far higher than for most cable channels. BET's operating profit before interest, depreciation and amortization is expected to grow 20% this year to $115 million. And despite the current depression in ad spending, BET's ad sales, which provide 60% of annual revenue, are up 18% this year.
Since Viacom closed the BET deal in January of this year, BET has added 2.5 million new subscribers, and ratings are up 23% over a year ago among its core audience of 18-to-34-year-old blacks. For the month of June, BET had the highest ratings in its history, drawing an average of almost 400,000 homes. _________________ La vie est un privilege, elle ne vous doit rien!
Vous lui devez tout, en l'occurence votre vie
Dernière édition par M.O.P. le Jeu 22 Sep 2005 16:24; édité 1 fois
Rank Name Title Company
1 Stanley O'Neal COO Merrill Lynch
2 Ken Chenault CEO American Express
3 Richard Parsons CEO AOL Time Warner
4 Franklin Raines CEO Fannie Mae
5 Thomas Jones CEO of Global Investments, Private Banking, and Asset Management Citigroup
6 Bruce Gordon President of Retail Markets Verizon
7 Adebayo Ogunlesi Head of Investment Banking Credit Suisse First Boston
8 Calvin Darden SVP, U.S. Operations UPS
9 Vernon Jordan Senior Managing Director Lazard LLC
10 Oprah Winfrey Chairman and CEO Harpo Inc.
11 Lloyd Trotter President and CEO, GE Industrial Systems General Electric
12 John Thompson CEO Symantec
13 William Lewis Head of Banking Morgan Stanley
14 Ray Wilkins Group President, Marketing and Sales SBC Communications
15 Alfred Zollar GM, Lotus Software IBM
16 Eula Adams SEVP First Data Corp.
17 Arnold Donald CEO Merisant
18 Myrtle Potter COO Genentech
19 Rod Adkins GM, Pervasive Computing IBM
20 Brenda Gaines President Diners Club North America
21 Ron Williams President Aetna
22 Earl Graves Founder and Publisher Black Enterprise
23 Frank Clark President ComEd
24 Paula Sneed President of E-Commerce and Marketing Kraft
25 Robert Johnson Founder and CEO BET
26 Virgis Colbert EVP Miller Brewing
27 Pamela Thomas-Graham President and CEO CNBC
28 Ursula Burns SVP Xerox
29 Lawrence Jackson SVP for Supply Operations Safeway
30 Erroll Davis Jr. Chairman & CEO Alliant Energy
31 Al Edmonds President of Government Information Solutions Electronic Data Systems
32 Bradley Sheares President of U.S. Human Health Merck
33 Earvin "Magic" Johnson CEO Johnson Development Corp.
34 Cathy Hughes Chairman and Founder Radio One
35 Lana Corbi CEO Hallmark Channel
36 Marc Belton SVP General Mills
37 Brian Anderson CFO Baxter International
38 Christopher Williams Founder and CEO Williams Capital Group
39 Jacqueline Woods VP of Global Pricing and Licensing Oracle
40 Calvin Hudson EVP Hartford Financial Group
41 Russell Simmons Chairman and CEO Rush Communications
42 Bertram Scott President TIAA-CREF Life Insurance
43 Charles Tribbett Managing Director Russell Reynolds
44 Tony Brown VP of Global Purchasing Ford
45 Kim Crawford VP and GM of Networking Dell Computer
46 David Turner Senior VP, Sales and Marketing Gateway
47 Roger Gibson VP United Cargo
48 Carla Harris Head of Equity Private Placement Morgan Stanley
49 Keith Williamson President of Capital Services Pitney Bowes
50 Cecil Pickett President Schering-Plough Research Institute _________________ La vie est un privilege, elle ne vous doit rien!
Vous lui devez tout, en l'occurence votre vie
AP) Many of the world's richest people saw their fortunes shrink over the past year, but Oprah Winfrey's grew enoughto make her the first black woman on Forbes magazine's list of billionaires.
Bill Gates led the list for the ninth straight year, but the Microsoft co-founder's net worth fell 23 percent from a year ago to $40.7 billion. Investment guru Warren Buffett remained in second place with $30.5 billion, a 13 percent drop from last year.
Membership in the billionaires' club fell by 21 this year to 476, the third year of declines since the economy weakened. The group's combined wealth also fell, to $1.4 trillion from $1.54 trillion last year.
"You see the poor economies wreaking havoc on their finances like everyone else. They're not immune," said Louisa Kroll, who edited Forbes' latest billionaires issue, which hits newsstands Friday.
Talk show host Winfrey bucked the trend with her burgeoning media empire, which put her on the list with a net worth of $1 billion. Her debut comes two years after Black Entertainment Television founder Robert Johnson became the first black billionaire.
Gates' personal wealth, much of it in company stock, has dropped by 60 percent since April 1998, when it reached $100 billion. His worst year was 1999, when it plunged by a third as the government pursued an antitrust case against Microsoft.
Forbes noted Gates also is the world's biggest philanthropist, donating $1 billion annually to charity, largely to vaccine research.
The No. 3 spot on the billionaires' list stayed with German retailers Theo and Karl Albrecht. Their combined net worth dropped to $25.6 billion from $26.8 billion last year.
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen held fourth place with a net worth of $20.1 billion, down from $25.2 billion. Saudi Arabia's Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud, Citigroup's largest individual investor, moved up to the fifth spot with a $17.7 billion fortune. Software mogul Lawrence Ellison and five members of the Walton family rounded out the top 10.
The United States has 222 billionaires, down from 243 last year and 272 in 2001. Asia's ranks of billionaires fell to 61, down 50 percent from its peak in 1996.
Europe's list grew to 134 billionaires, up from 121 last year. Russia has 10 new billionaires, thanks to higher oil prices, a 38 percent rise in stocks and a trend that has made it easier to identify the wealthiest Russians. Three years ago, there were no Russians listed; now there are 17.
The average age on the list is 64, though there are 25 billionaires under 40. The richest of those remains computer company founder Michael Dell, 38, who fell six places to 24th with a net worth of $9.8 billion.
The 37 women on the list were led by Alice Walton and her mother Helen Walton, whose equal $16.5 billion portions of the Wal-Mart fortune landed them in seventh place. _________________ La vie est un privilege, elle ne vous doit rien!
Vous lui devez tout, en l'occurence votre vie
Oui il a y a deux milliardaires noirs aux Etats-Unis: Robert Johnson, ancien proprietaire de la chaine de tele BET et devenu proprietaire d'une equipe de NBA, les Charlotte Bobcats.
Oprah Winfrey aussi est miliardaire, mais avec un peu moins d'argent. Elle est miliairdaire, mais pas encore proprietaire d'une chaine de tele...
Il y a 5 ans, apres que il ait signe un contrat de 250 millions de $ sur dix ans pour jouer au Baseball chez les Texas Rangers, les analystes de Forbes magazine disaient que Alex Rodriguez avait le potentiel d'aussi de devenir un milliairdaire en gerant bien son argent et en faisant de bon placements. _________________ "L'hypocrisie est un vice a la mode et tous les vice a la mode passent pour vertus"-----Don Juam, Moliere"
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