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Egyptian billionaire’s firm bags $2.2bn Rabigh 2 power plant project

Egyptian billionaire Ahmed Elsewedy’s Elsewedy Electric has won a $2.2 billion contract, alongside China’s Sinohydro, to expand Saudi Arabia’s Rabigh 2 Independent Power Plant. In a statement issued on Wednesday, October 14, Elsewedy Electric said the contract was awarded to a consortium made up of Elsewedy Electric Power Systems Projects and Sinohydro, with commercial operations […]

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Cookware CEO Paul van Zuydam becomes S’Africa’s latest billionaire

South Africa has welcomed a new entrant into the billionaire class with the emergence of industrialist Paul van Zuydam as a dollar-denominated billionaire. The 87-year-old owner of French cookware giant Le Creuset has joined the Forbes Real-Time Billionaire Index with an estimated net worth of $1.7 billion, becoming South Africa’s eighth dollar billionaire. Van Zuydam’s […]