BUSINESSWEEK ONLINE : FEBRUARY 21, 2000 ISSUE
INTERNATIONAL -- LATIN AMERICAN COVER STORY Slim's Expanding Empire GRUPO CARSO Retail and industry HOLDINGS Sanborns stores and restaurants, Sears Mexico department stores, MixUp music stores, fiber optics, auto parts, mining, chemicals, construction materials, tobacco, railroads. 1999 SALES $4.3 billion* 1999 OPERATING INCOME $723 million* *Estimate CARSO GLOBAL TELECOM Telecommunications HOLDINGS 26.5% of shares in Telmex, Mexico's No. 1 telecom; Prodigy Communications, a U.S.-based ISP; Splitrock, a fiber-optic network serving 500 U.S.cities. 1999 SALES *! $10.2 billion 1999 OPERATING INCOME *! $3.9 billion * CGT consolidates all Telmex income in its statement ! Figures for Prodigy and Splitrock not available GRUPO FINANCIERO INBURSA Financial services HOLDINGS Commercial and investment banking, brokerage, insurance, pension funds, venture-capital fund. 1999 SALES $1.2 billion 1999 OPERATING INCOME $514 million _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ BACK TO TOP					RELATED ITEMS Slim's New World (int'l edition) LATIN AMERICAN COVER IMAGE: Slim's New World TABLE: Slim's Expanding Empire ONLINE ORIGINAL: Carlos Slim: "The Key Is the Internet" INTERACT E-Mail to Business Week Online

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