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Brazil - business -- Review
The heading BUSINESS maintains two catalogues - a catalogue of the 10 richest people in Brazil and a catalogue of the companies listed in Global 500 2008- the Fortune magazine's annual ranking of the world's largest corporations.
Brazil - business -- Top 10 richest people in Brazil 2008
Top 10 richest people in Brazil 2008
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| Antonio Ermirio de Moraes & family |
$10.0 billion |
diversified |
Sao Paulo |
79yo - na, 9 children |
| Joseph Safra |
$8.8 billion |
banking |
Sao Paulo |
69yo - Married, 4 children |
| Eike Batista |
$6.6 billion |
iron-ore mining |
Rio de Janeiro |
51yo - Divorced, 2 children |
| Dorothea Steinbruch & family |
$6.1 billion |
Inheritence (steel) |
Sao Paulo |
na - Widowed, 3 children |
| Jorge Paulo Lemann |
$5.8 billion |
banking, beer |
Sao Paulo |
68yo - Married, 5 children |
| Eliezer Steinbruch & family |
$4.0 billion |
Inheritence (steel) |
Sao Paulo |
na - Married, 3 children |
| Aloysio de Andrade Faria |
$3.7 billion |
banking |
Sao Paulo |
87yo - Married, 5 children |
| Moise Safra |
$2.8 billion |
banking |
Sao Paulo |
73yo - Married |
| Marcel Herman Telles |
$2.5 billion |
banking, beer |
Sao Paulo |
58yo - Married, 2 children |
| Carlos Alberto Sicupira |
$2.3 billion |
banking, beer |
Sao Paulo |
60yo - Married, 3 children |
Brazil - business -- Companies in Global 500 2008
Companies in Global 500 2008
| Country
Rank |
Company |
Global rank |
Revenues($ millions) |
City |
| 1 |
Petrobras |
63 |
87735 |
Rio de Janeiro |
| 2 |
Banco Bradesco |
204 |
36119 |
Osasco |
| 3 |
CVRD |
235 |
32242 |
Rio de Janeiro |
| 4 |
Itaosa-Investimentos Itao |
273 |
28972 |
Sao Paulo |
| 5 |
Banco do Brasil |
282 |
28605 |
Brasilia |
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