Forbes

Forbes is an American publishing and media company. Its flagship publication, Forbes magazine, is published bi-weekly.

Company History

Forbes was founded in 1917 by Scottish immigrant B.C. Forbes, then the leading business columnist for Hearst newspapers. After his death in 1954 his son Bruce became president. Bruce died in 1964 and his brother Malcolm Stevenson Forbes (1917–1990) became Editor-in-Chief and Publisher.

On Malcolm's death, his eldest son Malcolm Stevenson "Steve" Forbes Jr. (1947–) became President and Chief Executive of Forbes and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes magazine. The other officers of Forbes include Steve's brother Timothy C. Forbes, Chief Operating Officer, Robert L. Forbes Vice President and President of ForbesLife and Christopher Forbes Vice Chairman. In 2006, the brothers sold a reported 40% of the company to Elevation Partners, a private equity firm, and created a new company, Forbes Media LLC, to publish Forbes magazine, Forbes.com and other media properties. ^{[1] [2]}.

Present day

Forbes is headquartered on Fifth Avenue in New York City. The current editor is William Baldwin; the current managing editor is Dennis Kneale; the publisher is Richard Karlgaard.

Other publications

Apart from Forbes and its lifestyle supplement, ForbesLife, the other titles published include Forbes Asia and eight local language editions. The company also publishes American Heritage, American Heritage of Invention & Technology and American Legacy. Steve Forbes and his magazine's writers offer investment advice on the weekly Fox TV show Forbes on Fox and on Forbes On Radio. Other company groups include Forbes Conference Group, Forbes Investment Advisory Group and Forbes Custom Media.

Web site

David Churbuck founded Forbes.com in 1996. The site drew attention when it uncovered Stephen Glass' journalistic fraud in The New Republic in 1998, a scoop that gave credibility to internet journalism.

Forbes's Web site, Forbes.com, bills itself as "Home Page For The World's Business Leaders" and is the most widely visited business web site. It features in-depth coverage of current business and financial events. The current president and chief executive officer is James J. Spanfeller; the current editor is Paul Maidment; the current managing editor is Daniel Bigman. Forbes.com also publishes subscription investment newsletters, a luxury-vehicles site, ForbesAutos, a luxury travel site, ForbesTraveler, edited by G. Barry Golson, the former executive editor of Playboy and TV Guide and former editor-in-chief of Yahoo! Internet Life, and an online guide to web sites, Best Of The Web.

Lists

Forbes creates many lists under various topics, the most popular being perhaps the List of billionaires.

Companies

• 200 Best Small Companies
• 400 Best Big Companies
• Forbes 500
• Forbes Global 2000, a list of largest companies in the world taking into account market capitalization, revenue, income and assets (this is differs from the Fortune Global 500 which is based only on revenues).
• Largest Private Companies
• Fastest Growing Techs
• Overachievers

People

In popular culture Forbes is perhaps best-known for its many periodic lists of net worth. As it often takes considerable detective work to determine the actual wealth of an individual, Forbes' figures are widely cited as nearly-definitive.

• Executive Pay
• Forbes 400, a list of the richest people in the United States
• Forbes Midas
• World's Richest People, a list of the richest people in the world
• China Rich List, a list of the richest people in mainland China
• India Rich List, list of the richest people in India
• Forbes Fictional 15, a self-parodying list of the richest movie, TV and literary characters
• 100 Most Powerful Women in the World (external: [1])
• The Celebrity 100, an annual list of famous and financially influential celebrities (i.e., entertainers, musicians, producers, directors, and athletes) [2]
• The China Celebrity 100
• Top-Earning Dead Celebrities [3]

Places

• Best Cities For Singles
• Best Places For Business
• Most Expensive Zip Codes
• Most Expensive Rental Markets In The U.S.

Fidel Castro conflict

In 2005, Forbes listed Fidel Castro among the world's richest people, with an estimated net worth of $550 million USD. In the 2006 article "Fortunes Of Kings, Queens And Dictators", Forbes increased their estimate to $900 million USD. [4] The article notes that estimating net worth for government leaders is "more art than science", and points out that in the case of Castro the authors used a discounted cash flow method for several state-owned companies, and assumed a portion of that profit stream went to Castro.

Fidel Castro responded that he has a net worth of less than $1 USD, and challenged any one to prove that he has any money in overseas accounts. [5] Castro also stated that Forbes should place a bucket over their head. [6]

See also

• List of billionaires.

References

1. ^ Forbes 'Forbes Announce Elevation Partners Investment in Family Held Company' - August 6th, 2006
2. ^ Irish Independent, Media mogul Bono buys "rich list" - August 7th, 2006

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