It is majority - owned by the Brazilian private - equity firm 3G Capital, led
by the billionaire Jorge Paulo Lemann.
The company most recently sold its Argentina wine business to Grupo Penaflor for an undisclosed amount, and earlier this year, speculation of a potential takeover
by billionaire Jorge Paulo Lemann gave Diageo a nice share boost.
Led
by billionaire Jorge Paulo Lemann, a former Brazilian tennis champion, 3G also worked with Buffett to put together a US$ 23 - billion deal to buy ketchup maker Heinz last year.
Not exact matches
In an interview with CNBC, Buffett said he was approached at that time
by Jorge Lemann, a fellow
billionaire and a co-founder of 3G.
Once dubbed «the world's most interesting
billionaire»
by Bloomberg,
Jorge Lemann had previous lives as a journalist and professional tennis champion before turning to finance in 1971 with the purchase of a small Brazilian brokerage firm.
Buffett and 3G, the private - equity firm founded
by Brazilian
billionaire Jorge Paulo Lemann, previously teamed up to buy Heinz in 2013 and they cut costs, a strategy they aim to repeat with Kraft.
The Sherman / Jeter group may have had the highest bid for the team
by $ 200 million, but there was an offer on the table from Miami - based
billionaire Jorge Mas as well.
As I was reading a book
by developer
Jorge Perez about how to be successful in real estate, (Powerhouse Principles, The
Billionaire Blueprint for Real Estate Success; Celebra, 2008) it struck me that most, if not all, of the principles he outlined in his blueprint to riches are principles that many of us in real estate already know and live
by.