USA vs DIC
Tom Hicks owns:
Ice Hockey team Dallas Stars, bought for £42m in 1995
Baseball team Texas Rangers, bought for £123m in 1998.
Hicks Holdings is the company that controls his sporting and real estate empire, worth over Û1billion (£511m).
Has interests in fossil fuel drilling tools, a data services company and an Argentine pet food company.
George Gillett owns:
Ice Hockey team Montreal Canadiens, bought for £95m in 2000.
Gillett Evernham Motorsports, bought from Roy Evernham in August 2007.
Booth Creek Ski Holdings Inc, running a range of ski resorts across America. Northland Services Inc - a marine transportation company Great Northern Bank and Sierra Organics - a landscaping and gardening company.
DIC own:
Travelodge Hotels Ltd, bought for £675m in 2006.
The Tussauds Group, bought for £800m in March 2005. In May 2007 they merged The Tussauds Group with Blackstones Merlin Entertainments Group to create the second largest visitor attraction operator, after Disney, in the world. The Alliance Medical Group, bought for £600m in November 2007.
Mauser AG (industrial packaging specialist), bought for £635m in June 2007. Doncasters Group Ltd (manufacturer of precision engineered components and systems), bought for £700m in May 2006.
Owns ’significant’ shares - estimated to be between 2 and 4 per cent - of HSBC, Sony, Daimler - Chrysler and ICICI Bank.
Who’s more richer?..of course DIC is!!!…Those two US stooges are worthless!!!..go DIC