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Date: 08/14/2014 16:40 clock
The school he broke off, a study he saved himself. Instead, René Benko developed “early a passion for entrepreneurship”. Now the 37-year-old Austrian wants to take over the German department store chain Karstadt. Who is the man?
The 37-year-old Austrian René Benko is according to newspaper reports, the Karstadt chain take over. From the side of Benko company Signa there was this on ARD request no opinion. Karstadt also keeps a
Opposite the Vienna Business Journal “Format” Benko has allegedly confirmed:. He had been called by the hapless Karstadt Investor Berggruen to help. Benko had already secured fillets as the KaDeWe in Berlin or the Oberpollinger in Munich last year. The 28 Karstadt sports stores already belong to him. There are loud “Süddeutsche Zeitung” a longstanding agreement with Berggruen, which Benko also assumes the remaining 75 percent of the “normal” Karstadt stores. When -. However, is still open
He likes to surround himself with the rich and powerful
The Tyrolean Benko comes from a family of civil servants . His father was a parish clerk, his mother Mother. Although early school leavers, managed Benko, the wild parties celebrating, but little of themselves are, in the top league of the 50 richest Austrians. “I have a great passion early developed for entrepreneurship,” he says about himself. “That made me ultimately persuaded not to go the traditional training pathway through vocational or university.”
His was founded 15 years ago Signa Holding is a good five billion euros difficult. Main source of funding is the Greek shipowner George Economou. But the sovereign wealth funds of Abu Dhabi is involved. Benko invest in luxury real estate, as in Vienna’s prime downtown location, for some time, but also in department stores.
In politics and economics of the smart entrepreneur is well connected. For the advisory board of his company, he won celebrities such as former Porsche CEO Wendelin Wiedeking or Austrian Ex-Chancellor Gusenbauer. The self-made man in Germany was known when he wanted to take just the Karstadt competitors Kaufhof three years ago
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“Flawless Corruption” – so put it the judge from
However, had there been no Benko white vest more. End of 2012, he was sentenced in Vienna in a corruption trial to one year on probation; the verdict was recently confirmed. The entrepreneur is thus a criminal record.
It was about trying to influence a proceeding in Italy, in the even of Croatian ex-PM Ivo Sanader was involved. According to Judge went on to dubious deals to “unmitigated corruption”. Since the judgment Benko nurmehr sits on the advisory board of his company – but pulling the strings in the background. Ivo Sanader already serving a prison sentence for corruption.
Next week the Karstadt Supervisory Board will decide on the future of the Group. Media in Austria speculate that with a Karstadt-Kaufhof takeover could also move back into view Benko. The deal with the Kaufhof mother Metro was at that time failed because Benko, according to press reports, it just wanted to borrow the money from the Metro. The waved.
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