Senhor RestlessEike Batista is Brazil's most spectacular entrepreneur - and the richest man in the country. The foundation of success, the 52-year-old with the trade of precious stones and gold price. The head of the EBX holding sees in the crisis, especially opportunities. This change also the recent, massive losses nothing.RIO DE JANEIRO. Twelve billion dollars! In times of financial crisis we have in such amounts dimension accustomed. However: As a loss for an individual appears this sum is still hard to imagine. Eike Batista has lost it, these twelve billion. But note, it can be nothing. "Whether my shares 18 billion or six billion dollars worth, this does not change my life," says Batista, the German fluently with a slight Brazilian accent speaks. The 52-year-old is still the richest man in Brazil, number 61 of the Forbes list. His assets had the most spectacular business in Brazil in three years from one billion to eighteen billion increase. In a narrow office with the few indoor sprint wire man in the sneakers, jeans and black corduroy jacket, between conference rooms, office secretary and honeycomb zone back and forth. His powerful voice booms again and again by the office, always answered by a chorus of his secretaries: "Sim, Chefe" - "Yes, boss." His own work room is simple, only the magnificent view of Rio's Sugar Loaf Mountain gives him a bit of elegance. EBX has been the most successful of all Brazilian entrepreneurs called his company. It is a holding company, which combines a dozen groups - with emphasis on oil, iron ore, energy, logistics. There are also daughters for entertainment and renewable energies. The X lead them all in the name "The riches of Brazil multiply" - it should mean. The symbol of his company is a sun, as a graphic beside his desk hangs. Slopes should be. "Damn, where is my sunshine?" Batista calls, even on the go from his office. "Chefe that we still have left because of the presentation, his secretaries answer in unison. If he speaks German, sounds Batista younger, less strict. That may be because he was only in his youth, spoke German. Between twelve o'clock-23 o'clock, he has with his six siblings in Dusseldorf and Brussels lived - his mother was German. Three years, he studied engineering in Aachen. In order to financially make ends meet, sold insurance Batista temporarily - until the diamond trade was exciting, the "terribly boring" and threw studies 23 years after Rio de Janeiro returned. The diamond trade aroused his interest in the treasures in the ground: In the next few years that drove Batista repeatedly over many months in the Amazon and the Andes around in search of precious stones, silver, and above all gold. That was in Brazil at that time by prospectors crafted encouraged - there was still no great works of Goldberg. Batista bought the hardened prospector their transactions. Until he had production volumes combined, for the industrial mining worthwhile. What followed is a logistical feat: he dismantled excavators and other heavy equipment, leaving it with klapprigen planes fly into the rainforest. "In these years I learned everything on mining and logistics, which is useful to me today," says Batista. He also learns that he, after several failed attempts, even the most daring projects succeed only if he wants. His enthusiasm is boundless: It is said that he come for a weekend ever with two dozen business ideas in his company. On Amazon, the bill sometime on the big gold companies began to work for the Blonden interested in the jungle. He collaborated with a Canadian company, sold its stake in mid-nineties - and had its first billion in the fund. That is until today, his concept, whether for gold in Amapá, iron ore in Minas Gerais, or water in the Chilean Atacama desert. He finds a raw material, seek the approval to build support to bring the project to run until it wears - and sold. Batistas affinity for mining is no coincidence: His father, Eliezer Batista has the Brazilian mining company Companhia Vale do Rio Doce up and led for many years. In between, he had to because of the Brazilian military to go abroad - which is why his son now speaks German. Eliezer Batista was then Minister and President of Vale times. Today he is the gray eminence in Brazil's mining and energy sectors. The career of his son was anything but straightforward. Many of his projects failed: The own brand SUVs floppte just like the Express service. The Bolivian president threw him out of the country because it melted the steel of the Brazilian did not like. For a time Batista appeared mainly in the gossip pages of the magazines on: as a successful Rennbootfahrer. Or the escapades of his wife, Luma de Oliveira, model, dancer and acclaimed Samba multiple Playboy Cover Girl were subject. Also by Batista launched perfume brand with their name failed even before the divorce. With Batista commodities showed a steady hand - and not just because of his father: For success in the mining sector involves more than knowing where the ore or oil is located. Equally important is the timing. Batista showed the first time three years ago that he has this gift: He brought several iron ore mines to the stock exchange. Although the mines have not yet promoted tonne ore, investors paid him 500 million U.S. dollars for one third of the shares. "Beginners luck", blasphemed the financial elite of São Paulo on the Shakers. But Batista was the first next to the Vale Erzriesen the new importance of iron ore recognized: The price for the red-brown ore quadrupled from 2003 to 2008, and it is now one of the strategic commodities of the world - almost as important as oil. Groups and states from emerging countries like India and China argue for landmines, and concessions company. Even in the crisis as primarily driven by the takeover carousel Asians in the industry shows. These countries need to build steel bridges, airports and skyscrapers. For electrical appliances, automobiles and machinery. It is the base of growth in states that have been developed. Brazil has the world's richest deposits. The groups draw deeply into their pockets to secure supplies. Batista receives them with the right job: In 2007 he sold the mining giant Anglo American, the two main mines of MMX for 5.5 billion U.S. dollars. Three billion dollars of which collects Batista. One billion of which he is now in 22 �lkonzessionen which Brazil at the last public �lausschreibung auctioned. The international oil companies hold back an insult, because the �lbehörde promising fields at short distance from the auction has. Batista has secured the lion's share of licenses. Shortly afterwards, the oil price rises to $ 150 a barrel Batista brings his �ltochter OGX in June 2008 to the stock exchange. Amid the financial crisis, he succeeds the largest IPO in the history of the Bovespa in Sao Paulo: four billion dollars Batista takes on the IPO of its oil On - although he still did not demonstrate that in the oil fields will be found. The first test drilling to start late this year. Batista benefited to date from the connections of his now 84-year-old father. He is still his principal advisers and follows him with a social network without the corporate world in Brazil is low. It could be they Brasil SA, which, however, unlike the former Germany AG, fully intact. In this network, the Batistas serves as an open box of chocolates: You advertised leading experts at rivals such as Petrobras and Vale. Its director list today reads like a Who's Who of Brazil SA. Brazil's oligarchs have long since ceased, the rising star from Rio to smile. You are trying to emulate it. Brazil's steel baron Benjamin Steinbruch approximately promulgated after the spectacular initial public offerings of competitors in mid-2008 that his steel company CSN decompose into parts and sold. "Like Batista," he said, adding: "Only that my company is already producing assets." He forgot that Batista had to something else, what was missing quarry: the right timing. Quarry was too late. With the economic crisis are steel and Erzaktien much in demand. Batista himself brings the global economic crisis is not out of step. He is convinced that Brazil's commodities and oil companies now a far greater role on the world to play than before. "Brazil has a raw edge underestimated," he says. "We can find them yourself, dismantle and process. Forscht Brazil itself, of course, from within the areas of agriculture, oil, electricity, mining and steel - the big state corporations, thankfully. We have the expertise and staff are not expensive to buy abroad as the most other countries worldwide commodity. " Last week, Batista began yet another milestone in the Brazilian company's history: When President Lula's state visit in China, he closes with the Chinese Wuhan Iron & Steel Company an investment deal over four billion dollars: The company is building a steel mill in Brazil, serves to ensure long term Batistas Mines and using its port facilities. It is the first billion investment by a Chinese company in Brazil. But the restless Batista has long moved on. He wants ten billion dollars for a fund collection, which in Brazil's infrastructure. In particular, China and the Middle East, he is in sight. He is confident. "Whom should investors trust in these times? Banks? Analysts?" he asks and answers himself: "If you invested looking for entrepreneurs who personally guarantee for the business." Scheut the man really is no risk? "But," he says after a pause. The Rennbootfahren he had been abandoned: "It is simply too dangerous, because it travels faster than the conditions allow."
08:35 PM, June 2, 2009
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