Intellectual property In June, X5 Retail Group acquired the Karusel hypermarket chain, created by the founders of Pyaterochka, for $925 million. In addition to money for his shares, Andrey Rogachev received another $15 million for intellectual property - mainly for the transfer to X5 of the patent “Method for controlling the movement of goods flow and a system for managing the flow of goods in a large shopping complex,” which he received in 2004.

Two entrepreneurs from the Krasnodar region found an unusual way to make money from landfills Untidy citizens with rumpled faces sort through garbage at a landfill in the southern town of Kropotkin (Krasnodar Territory). They remove from the pile of waste not only glass containers and aluminum cans, which are readily accepted by recycling centers, but plastic bottles, bottles and other plastic products are sent into bags. Also in demand raw materials? Here - yes.

Heidi Klum understands that her beauty will not last forever. Therefore, she has long relied on business sense Model Heidi Klum looks at a retouched image of herself on her laptop as part of a photo shoot for the new Jordache advertising campaign. “They lifted my chin and removed the shadows under my eyes... They rounded my lips, now they look like silicone! - Klum is indignant. “Am I really that skinny?” Klum immediately calls her agent and lets him know that she prefers to be herself.

The most expensive and popular artists, musicians, TV presenters, athletes, writers and top models of Russia Being rich and being famous are not always the same thing. Several dozen Russian hockey players earn more than $1 million a year, but how many of their names are as familiar as the names of pop musicians? Our tennis players compete successfully on the courts, but how often can they be seen outside of sports TV channels?

Computers weighing 1–1.5 kg In the age of high technology, words are often torn away from their original meanings. In English, notebook is a notebook. Have you ever seen notebooks weighing three kilograms? Meanwhile, laptop computers are exactly like that. And if a manufacturer manages to make a device smaller and lighter, weighing at least one and a half kilos, then, in order to emphasize this difference for buyers, he immediately calls the product a new word - subnotebook.

The programmer taught realtors to pay millions of dollars for information that is convenient to work with Nellie called at noon: “An apartment on Bolshaya Filevskaya has appeared in the Winner database, the windows look out onto the park, and the price is not going up!” My wife and I rushed to watch. The apartment suited us, the owners agreed to accept an advance payment. The next morning an advertisement for a good apartment appeared in the newspapers. The calls came, but it was too late.

Actions Yulia Govorun, Mikhail Kozyrev Buy at the bottom, sell at the peak - the founder of the oil company Imperial Energy, Peter Levin, successfully solved the main task of any investor. The public learned about this British company operating in Russia and Kazakhstan (2007 revenue $20 million, capitalization $1.55 billion as of July 11) from Oleg Mitvol, deputy head of Rosprirodnadzor.

Can a small business find a common language with a large one? The experience of the TV show “Capital” shows: hardly There is a lot of talent in Russia. And a lot of rich people. The idea of ​​bringing one to another lies on the surface. And one day the TNT television channel decided to take advantage of it by organizing the show “Capital”, which was broadcast in the summer of 2006. Everything started out great.

photo Kommersant In no Western European country can a person earn billions of dollars in 5-6 years, President Putin said at the end of 2003 in response to a question about the arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Yuri Kovalchuk was not yet a billionaire. It turned out to be easy to fix Three federal television channels, the country's third bank by assets, a powerful insurance group, leading enterprises in nuclear engineering, shipbuilding, and petrochemicals.

Forbes tracks the fate of the heroes of its past publications Under the London sky In May, Forbes described the path to the top of Russia's richest man, Oleg Deripaska. We wrote about the role played by Israeli businessman Mikhail Chernoy in creating the billionaire's aluminum empire. After leaving the country, Cherney entrusted Deripaska with asset management.

Kyiv looks like a smaller copy of Moscow, but business needs to be done here completely differently than in the capital of Russia A man stared into the window of a Bentley showroom, located next to the Bessarabian market in the very center of Kyiv. He is completely naked, but for a good reason: this is a steel sculpture by British artist Antony Gormley, which was donated to the car dealership by the nearby art center of billionaire Victor Pinchuk.

The Russian entertainment industry is reliably insured against digital disruptions Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails are releasing new albums online—virtually for free. An artist named Prince is releasing a new record as a free supplement to the British newspaper The Mail On Sunday.

The managers of a bankrupt bank risk not only their reputation, but also their money. How does the mechanism work? The bankruptcy of ASB Bank cost Vladimir Gubarenko, who had the misfortune of working as a member of the board of directors at the bank, a pretty penny. According to the court decision, Gubarenko paid creditors 9 million rubles from personal funds.

Russian GDP growth depends on the condition of roads How bad are our roads? A recent study by Delovaya Rossiya showed that more than 62% of our roads do not meet regulatory requirements, although road transport accounts for three-quarters of all freight traffic. The total length of highways is about 900,000 km, while the real economic need is 1.5 million km.

Individual sports stars earn more from advertising than team players The richest golfer Michelle Wie played in 10 tournaments in a year, but received cash prizes in only half of them. The total winnings were just $39,000—pennies compared to advertising revenue. V's multi-year contracts with companies like Nike and Sony brought the 18-year-old athlete $12 million. However, the profitable cooperation may be interrupted if V does not improve her athletic performance.