Ainsbury Properties Ltd.
Ainsbury Properties Ltd. is a private company controlled by Mr. Sami Shamoon. Ainsbury is a major shareholder in Teva and the biggest shareholder in Gaon Holdings.
AquAgro GbR
AquAgro GbR is a German partnership controlled by Mr. Robert Faktor from Frankfurt, Germany. Mr.Robert Faktor was raised and educated in Germany, and has a degree of Diploma-Kaufmann (equivalent of an MBA degree) of Johann-Wolfgang-von-Goethe University. ||| Through a network of companies and partnerships, Mr.Robert Faktor is involved in real estate, mechanical engineering, financial services and alternative energy production in Germany and in the USA. His Group manages more than 500,000 sqm of real estate and total assets in excess of $1 billion throughout Europe, the USA and Israel.
www.antan.de
Hugo Neu Corporation
Hugo Neu Corporation (“HNC”), a privately owned firm headquartered in New York, was founded in 1947 by the late Hugo Neu and is headed by his son, John L. Neu, Chairman and CEO. ||| HNC has been principally active in the recycling business, industrial and commercial real estate development and, until the mid 1990’s, shipping. Mr. Neu has been active in the business for 45 years.
Major corporate transactions completed in recent years have changed the nature of HNC’s activity in the recycling business in which it was one of the world’s leaders. In October, 2005, HNC combined its recycling operations with those of Sims Group Limited (“Sims”), a publicly traded Australian company, creating the world’s largest metals recycling firm, and resulting in HNC becoming Sims’ largest shareholder. In June 2007, after a significant increase in the value of Sims shares, HNC sold approximately 80% of its Sims interest to Mitsui & Co., Ltd., but still remains one of Sims’ largest shareholders. An HNC affiliate (now a Sims company) worked very closely with New York City in recycling most of the metal scrap that the City had to dispose of after 9/11, and negotiated an economically viable contract with the City to recycle the City’s post-consumer metals, glass and plastics, leading to the re-establishment of the City’s curbside recycling program in 2002. That contract is operational today with a long-term 20-year contract being finalized that will substantially expand the post-consumer recycling operations.
As real estate owner, builder, and manager, HNC has developed approximately 8.0 million sq. ft. of industrial parks in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and California. HNC currently owns and manages approximately 5.8 million sq. ft. of warehouse and multi-user distribution facilities on approximately 300 acres in Kearny, New Jersey and approximately 100 acres in Florence, New Jersey that are leased to national and international companies and numerous local firms. These facilities were purchased and then converted by HNC for their present rental uses and supplemented with new buildings constructed by HNC. HNC also owns a substantial partnership interest in two prime office buildings of about 900,000 sq. ft. in Century City, California which it built with its partners in the early 1980’s.
HNC also has considerable experience in the international shipping business, having owned substantial interests in 14 foreign flag vessels with a total deadweight exceeding 1,850,000 tons, including five ultra-modern liquid petroleum gas vessels, the largest ore carrier (365,000 tons DWT) ever built and several tankers and ore and bulk-oil carriers. These shipping operations, which were owned in conjunction with one of the world’s largest shipping companies, Bergesen D.Y. A/S of Oslo, Norway, were spun off in 1994 as part of a realignment of family interests in the HNC businesses.
The recent sale by HNC of 80% of its Sims holdings has provided HNC with substantial financial resources to diversify and seek new business and investment opportunities. It is presently moving forward with new investments in industrial, commercial and residential real estate as well as industrial and financial businesses. HNC recently seeded a new hedge fund management company, known as EVA Advisers, organized by Bennett Stewart, a founder of Stern Stewart, which developed the EVA metrics for evaluating company performance.
www.hugoneu.com
Clal Finance Provident Funds
Clal Finance Ltd. (TASE: CLFN) is Israel`s largest financial institution outside the banking system, providing a broad array of financial services ranging from portfolio management to brokerage and underwriting services. ||| The Company owns and manages mutual funds, an in-house hedge fund, and offers individually tailored structured products to clients.
With over 40 years of experience operating in the Israeli market, and over NIS 54bn in assets under management in Israel and abroad, Clal Finance is a leading player in the finance industry. In the first nine months of 2007, Clal Finance reported a net profit of NIS 72m and shareholders equity amounted to NIS 709m.
Clal Finance is 75% owned by Clal Insurance Enterprises Holdings, a publicly traded company in which IDB Development Corporation - Israel`s largest holding company- holds a 55% stake
http://www.clalfinance.com/
Gaon Agro Industries
Gaon Agro Industries Ltd. is a public company, traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE: GAT). |||
Gaon Agro is a subsidiary of B. Gaon Holdings Ltd., one of Israel's leading investment companies, founded and headed by Gaon Holding Ltd. (54.3%), Kastel (Altan) Investment Ltd. controlled by Mr. Robert Faktor from Germany (23.8%), Oz Atid International Ltd. (11.8%), The Public (10.1%).
www.gaonagro.com
