Had Miguel Patricio asked me before he accepted the job of CEO of Kraft Heinz, I would have told him not to walk away, but to run. Everything suggests he’s facing insurmountable barriers to success. But now that he’s there,…
Bill Gates Becomes The Second Person To Join The $100 Billion Club
Bill Gates has followed Jeff Bezos to become the world’s second ‘centi-billionaire’ after his fortune reached the $100 billion threshold. According to Bloomberg, which tracks the wealth of the planet’s richest people through its Billionaires Index, the Microsoft co-founder has…
Africa’s Richest Man Makes a $17 Billion Bid for Immortality
Aliko Dangote’s plan to reduce Nigeria’s dependency on fuel imports will carve out an even bigger slice of the nation’s $376 billion economy for his empire. The best way to appreciate the scale of Aliko Dangote’s empire is to hitch…
Bill Gates: If Africa Can Be Electrified, The Whole World Will Benefit Too
When Microsoft founder Bill Gates spoke recently at the African Union’s annual summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, he underscored two of the things about which he is most passionate: the African people and clean energy, or more precisely, the need…
Newell Brands CEO Michael Polk to retire at end of second quarter
Newell Brands announced Thursday that President and CEO Michael Polk will retire at the end of the second quarter. As Newell approaches the end of its “accelerated transformation plan,” it and Polk agreed that it “is the right time for a…
How Ford CEO Jim Hackett Impressed Designers, But Not Investors
The great Jerry Useem—that’s how we referred to him when he worked at Fortune a publishing world eon ago—has a marvelous profile of Ford CEO Jim Hackett in the March issue of The Atlantic. I recommend it for its delicious nugget of insight, that Hackett…
Why Amazon is on the Verge of Absolutely Upending These 4 Markets Worth $220 Billion
There be no shelter from Amazon. The retail titan is rapidly expanding in so many directions that its front lines of competition are everywhere. Amazon is currently sending shockwaves through four different markets totaling $220 billion in value. Two of them are underway, one is…
A CEO BRINGING EFFECTIVENESS TO THE MARKETING SECTOR
The Fournaise Marketing Group (Fournaise) is a leading Marketing Performance Measurement & Management (MPM) company, specialising in marketing effectiveness, tracking & boosting. In late October, Fournaise’s Global CEO and Marketing Performance Chief, Jerome Fontaine, was named as 2018’s Marketing sector…
GREAT PLATES: NEW RESTAURANTS TO TRY IN 2019
From Miami to Tokyo and Brisbane to New Delhi, some of the world’s hottest new restaurants in the coolest locations will have global gastronomes salivating as they add them to their culinary bucket lists for 2019. While a number of…
MUNGER NAMED INTERIM DCEO DIRECTOR
CHICAGO — Gov. Bruce Rauner today said that Deputy Gov. Leslie Munger would be taking on the new role of acting director of the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO). She replaces Director Sean McCarthy, who has accepted…