Forbes list of rich people

phxcat · Post by **phxcat** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 9:51 pm

I just saw the Forbes list of the 400 richest- and KC came up looking pretty good. There were six total, I think, including a couple of Halls, a couple guys from JoCo who did something enteurprenureal (I don't remeber what) and a couple other people. Koch from Wichita was high up on the list and there was another guy who got rich off of handtrucks. Phoenix had four, two fro mthe Apollo Group and two who got rich off of billboards. St. Louis had only two or three- Enterprize Rent a car and an inherritence. There were a couple Waltons in Columbia. At number 40, from Chicago, was a guy bamed Ty Warner who made 6 billion off of Beanie Babies! (Bastard!)

I can't find the article now, though!

phxcat · Post by **phxcat** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 9:53 pm

By the way- the freakin rich was headaed by Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Paul Allen, and about fifty Arkansas Walton's tied at fourth. (That group has a lot more than the Columbia Wal-Marts.)

Brooksider · Post by **Brooksider** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 11:23 pm

Did the whole Wal-Mart family leave Arkansas and move to Columbia?

Post by **dangerboy** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 9:57 am

Sam Walton went to Mizzou, as did many of his kids. Several of them remained in Columbia. There's also some of them in Springfield. They own the Kiel Center and Blues in St. Louis, and just gave $25 million for the new MU arena. I've always thought that Wal-Mart was a headquarters that Kansas City should pursue, especially with all of the Missouri ties among the Waltons and now former CEO David Glass owning the Royals.

trailerkid · Post by **trailerkid** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 7:52 pm

The Halls are freaking LOADED!!! I didn't know they were that rich...good lord!

Brooksider · Post by **Brooksider** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 8:25 pm

You don't hear a lot about Hallmark when rankings come out because it is a privately held company, not publicly traded. I don't think anyone really knows how much money that company makes.

trailerkid · Post by **trailerkid** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 12:44 am

Just think about if Hallmark went public...they'd be worth even more.

Post by **bahua** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 2:58 am

Not necessarily. The idea of going public is to get more stockholders. It could be that Hallmark has all the stockholders they need/want.

As for nobody knowing how much they have/make, that is absolutely true, as they are a privately held company, and are under no obligation to release any of their information for anything other than tax purposes.