Towards the end of 2005, Ineos acquired Innovene, the petrochemicals arm of BP, for $9 billion. It quadrupled the size of Ineos overnight and brought with it some of the world's largest industrial sites.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Growing Ineos has been a lot of fun.
What is the engine that drives economic growth in an ideopolis? The university.
Fiat has assembly plants in Brazil and Argentina.
Jardine is the largest dealer of Mercedes in the world. They also sell cars for two or three Japanese makers.
Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.
I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery.
At Foundry Group, we always look for companies that we think build magic into their products. Occipital has been one of those companies.
Iraq has the most extensive petrochemical industry in the Middle East and a wealth of vaccine factories, single-cell protein research labs, medical and veterinary manufacturing centers and water treatment plants.
I made my money in Iscar. I spend my money on the industrial parks.
They were the largest semiconductor maker in the world up until about 1980. I'm not sure that that can be re-gained again, but their progress in the last few years has been very impressive.
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