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- Name: RENE BENKO
- English name: RENE BENKO
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Description: Rene benko is the founder of signa holding, which manages $20 billion in assets as one of europe's largest real estate and retail firms. as a high schooler, benko worked as a local real estate developer's assistant and racked up so many absences from school that he couldn't graduate. at age 22, he founded the company that grew to become signa; the company now owns interests in germany, austria, switzerland and italy. in 2018, signa merged department store chains karstadt and galeria kaufhaus in a joint venture with hudson's bay company, then bought out its partner. in october 2018, benko jumped into the media industry, picking up stakes in austria's two largest newspapers, kronen zeitung and kurier. benko's next target is the u.s. in march 2019, signa bought the chrysler building in manhattan, together with nyc-based property developer rfr.
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