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Carlos Slim
Carlos Slim Helú is a Mexican business oligarch, investor and philanthropist. From 2010 to 2013, Slim was ranked as the richest person in the world by Forbes business magazine. He derived his fortune from his extensive holdings in a considerable number of Mexican companies through his conglomerate, Grupo Carso. As of July 2025, the Bloomberg Billionaires Index ranked him as the 18th-richest person…
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Born 28 January 1940 · Q170419
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2026· 2 entries
El Cronista: Carlos Slim takes control of the country’s most important asset: he bought more than 62 miles of roads, 40 bridges, and 9 viaducts on a key route in Mexico
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2025· 1 entry
“While the market value of his stake in publicly traded companies could decline at any time, at the moment he is probably wealthier than Bill Gates”
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2024· 1 entry
The Guardian: Carlos Slim: who is the Mexican billionaire who has invested £400m in BT?
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2019· 4 entries
The Guardian: Who is more dangerous: El Chapo or Carlos Slim? | Michael Massing
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Forbes put Slim in the list of the world's most generous philanthropists outside of the US
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His net worth was said to be at least $58
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In 2019, Forbes put Slim in the list of the world's most generous philanthropists outside of the US.
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2017· 1 entry
Reported net worth: $49.9B (as of 2017).
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2013· 1 entry
For attempting to expand his telecommunications empire beyond the Americas by América Móvil's buy-out offer to KPN, a Dutch landline and mobile telecommunications operator
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2012· 1 entry
Slim sold the broadcast rights for the Leon games to the American terrestrial television network, Telemundo, the cable channel Fox Sports in Mexico and the rest of Latin America, and the website mediotiempo
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2011· 4 entries
Was attended by the President of Mexico, Nobel Prize laureates, writers and other celebrities
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But—according to his spokesman—he devoted US$4 billion, or roughly 5%, to his Carlos Slim foundation as of 2011 (equivalent to $5,724,852,071 in 2025).
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The Hispanic Society of America awarded Fundacion Carlos Slim the Sorolla Medal for its contribution to the arts and culture
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He, along with the president of Mexico, Mexico City mayor, and Mexico City archbishop, inaugurated the first phase of Plaza Mariana close to Basilica de Guadalupe
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2008· 2 entries
That it was to invest more than US$250 million (equivalent to $373,840,804 in 2025) in Mexican sports programs, from grass-roots level to Olympic standard
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His philanthropy was recognized with the award of The National Order of the Cedar by the Lebanese government
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2007· 4 entries
Grupo Carso announced that the remaining 103 CompUSA retail stores would be either liquidated or sold, bringing an end to the struggling company, although the information technology division of CompUSA continued operatin
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And 2008 by Guinness World Records as having the most participants of any such tournament in the world
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The National Sports Prize of Mexico for sports promotion
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The estimated value of all of Slim's companies totaled US$150 billion (equivalent to $232,908,040,443 in 2025)
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2006· 1 entry
(equivalent to $3,194,123,473 in 2025), and another US$2 billion in 2010 (equivalent to $2,952,846,025 in 2025), Slim was ranked fifth in Forbes' World's Biggest Givers in May 2011
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2005· 1 entry
Slim invested in Volaris, a Mexican airline and founded Impulsora del Desarrollo y el Empleo en América Latina SAB de CV (using the acronym "IDEAL"—roughly translated as "Promoter of Development and Employment in Latin A
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2003· 1 entry
When he began purchasing large stakes in a number of major US retailers such as Barnes & Noble, OfficeMax, Office Depot, Circuit City, Borders, and CompUSA
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1999· 1 entry
Slim began expanding his business interests beyond Latin America
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1996· 1 entry
Slim split Grupo Carso into three separate constituent companies: Carso Global Telecom, Grupo Carso, and Invercorporación
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1995· 1 entry
Slim established Fundación Telmex, a broad-ranging philanthropic foundation, which as he announced in 2007 had been provided with an asset base of US$4 billion (equivalent to $6,210,881,078 in 2025) to establish Carso In
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1994· 1 entry
CEO of the year in 2003 by Latin Trade magazine
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1991· 1 entry
Acquired Hoteles Calinda (now OSTAR Grupo Hotelero), a hotel chain and in 1993, he increased his stakes in General Tire, an American tiremaker and a distributor of aluminum profiles and aluminum concern Grupo Aluminio
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1990· 2 entries
Grupo Carso was floated as a public company initially in Mexico and then worldwide
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With the French telecom operator France Télécom and the American telco Southwestern Bell Corporation to purchase the landline telecommunications service provider from the Mexican government, when the opportunity for Slim
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1988· 1 entry
Slim bought Nacobre, a Mexican copper manufacturer that manufactured, marketed and distributed copper and copper alloy products, along with Química Fluor, a Mexican chemical maker
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1986· 1 entry
Fundación Carlos Slim sponsors the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City, named after Slim's late wife, Soumaya Domit, opened 2011
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1985· 1 entry
Slim invested heavily by snapping up numerous Mexican flagship companies for pennies on the dollar
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1984· 1 entry
Slim spent US$13 million (equivalent to $40,286,675 in 2025) to acquire Mexican insurance agency Seguros de México, and later subsumed the company into the firm, Seguros Inbursa
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1980· 3 entries
Consolidated his business interests by forming Grupo Galas as the parent company of a conglomerate that had interests in industrial manufacturing, construction, mining, retail, food, and tobacco
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“El trabajo bien hecho no es sólo una responsabilidad con la sociedad, es también una necesidad emocional.”
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“En la riqueza misma, lo importante no es cuánto se tiene, qué se tiene; sino qué se hace con ella.”
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1966· 1 entry
Worth US$40 million (equivalent to $396,923,077 in 2025), he established Inmuebles Carso, a Mexican real estate agency and holding company
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1965· 2 entries
Also acquired Jarritos del Sur, a Mexican bottling and soft drink company
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Profits from Slim's private business and investment ventures reached US$400,000 (equivalent to $4,086,589 in 2025), enabling him to start the stock brokerage house Inversora Bursátil
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1961· 2 entries
Slim launched his business career by starting off as a stock trader in Mexico, often working 14-hour days to make a name for himself in the Mexican business world
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Studied at National Autonomous University of Mexico, Bachelor of Science (1961).
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1940· 1 entry
Born 1940-01-28.
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1911· 1 entry
Julián established a dry goods retail store, La Estrella de Oriente (The Star of the Orient)
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1902· 1 entry
At the age of 14, Haddad emigrated to Mexico alone, and later changed his name to Julián Slim Haddad
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