Margarita Louis Dreyfus Biography

This is the post of reader of the gossip, you can start writing on the site and you, at the request of gossipers from the previous post, is the biography of Margarita Louis-Dreifus. The tall blonde, which is called the “queen” in France, can often be seen in the stands among the fans of the Olympic Marseille football club, with a club blue scarf around his neck. She is the owner of the team.

However, her real hobby is not football at all, this is only a tribute to the work of her husband. Her passion is a business, a very large business. Rita Bogdanova, the owner and managing Louis Dreyfus - one of the largest agrotrauders in the world, was born in the year in the Leningrad communal apartment. After the death of her parents, she spent all her childhood in orphanages according to another version, she was on her grandfather.

Her life resembles the plot of a fairy tale about Cinderella. Photos of Margarita, along with Nicolas Sarkozy or the head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarda - this is confirmed. However, six years ago, the European press called Bogdanov "a housewife, on whose head power fell in one of the largest corporations in the world." The authors of newspaper articles were now asking for the question: will the Russian beauty cope with this mission?

It is characterized by a very domineering, purposeful character, pronunciation of English words with a distinct Russian accent, risk tendency and incredible fart in life. How did a round orphan from Leningrad manage to climb such a peak? Every tenth liter of orange juice, like every tenth ton of Ukrainian grain, is supplied to the world market by Louis Dreyfus, founded in the middle of the 19th century.

Since he was too young to work under his own name, Leopold had to call the company the name of his father - Louis. A few years later, the businessman managed to expand the geography of activity and begin the purchase of grain in Hungary and Romania - regions that were comparable to black holes in the minds of Western Europeans of that time. Louis Dreyfus thus became a pioneer in the supply of wheat from the Black Sea to Europe.

In the days of the Russian Empire, Dreyfus was one of the largest foreign companies operating in Russia. The peak of the founder of Louis Dreyfus was the opening of a representative office in the United States and the foundation of his own bank. By the beginning of the last century, Leopold's company had already operated on the whole fleet of sailing and steam ships in the Azov and Black Seas under the flags of Russia.

This fleet was supplied by Ukrainian grain for large balcony, captured by Louis Dreyfus. By the beginning of the First World War, Dreyfus on the territory of the Russian Empire opened offices. Since then, Louis Dreyfus has remained one of the world's largest closed family corporations. During the Second World Wide Business, Dreyfusov fell into the disgrace of the Vichy government, many family members were forced to escape to America, and their assets were confiscated.

The grandson of Leopold Pierre Louis Dreifus had to fight for his inheritance in the literal sense of the word-he made 80 sorties as a navigator of the French Air Force. After the war, the company concentrated on the development of shipping and grain trade. But fighting with the Germans turned out to be easier than with competitors in the market. The grain market became less and less volatile, the profit of traders fell.

Companies such as Cargill were adapted to changing market conditions, going into processing, but Louis Dreyfus continued to trade grain. Louis Dreyfus fell from first place to the fifth among global players. ” It was Zheraru, who grew up in the United States and was able to accurately understand the spirit of time, Louis Dreyfus owes its revival and current strong positions in the world market.

The company began trading in various goods. The corporation is actively working in the Eastern European market, including in Ukraine. According to the results of the calendar year, Louis Dreyfus for the first time became the largest exporter of Ukrainian grain among foreign companies and has since maintained its position among leaders. On the map of European assets Louis Dreyfus, the most saturated region is Ukraine and the Russian Black Sea region.

The happy bride over the past five years Louis Dreyfus has been trying to firmly gain a foothold in the grain markets of Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan. The eastern vector of development is not surprising, if only because the mentality of the region is understandable to the Russian Margarita Louis-Dreifus Bogdanova, who has been heading the corporation from the year. The life of today's chapter Louis Dreyfus is violent and very difficult.

According to Margarita herself, her parents died in a railway catastrophe, when she was only seven years old. But this turned out to be not true. Reality was much more interesting. Journalists of the St. Petersburg Komsomolskaya Pravda found in the archives a record of the future billionaire. Mother - Bogdanova Natalya Leonidovna. Father is a dash. In fact, the father was. Oleg Ivanov.

But at the time of the birth of his daughter, he was serving a term in the Republic of Komi. In the distant northern camp, Rita was conceived when Natalya came to a date for her beloved.Later, Ivanov went on an amnesty, returned to Leningrad. Registered a marriage with Bogdanova. In the family, the family really happened. Not the crash of the train, no. Oleg and Natalia were arrested and condemned for petty hooliganism.

Freed, they soon again found themselves on the bunks. The children of alcoholics, convicts, round orphans studied and lived here. Although they talked with his grandfather, Rita came to visit him. After graduation, Margarita entered the Leningrad College of Soviet Trade. She studied not brilliantly, but having received a diploma, she got a job as a waitress in a prestigious restaurant.

In the Soviet years, being a trading worker meant to have direct access to a deficit. In those days, the waitress could earn more than an engineer. And for many girls from poor families, this was the easiest way to prosperity. The then neighbor Bogdanova in a communal apartment, in an interview with one of the Russian newspapers, said that she had never quarreled with Margarita, although she led the lifestyle for the Soviet system.

She led her life stormy. Verkhokho kept everyone. It was visible. We work, sleep, walk. I did not condemn, although we were not on the same wave. There were constantly two pretty girls with her, and Rita was beautiful - long blond hair. Sometimes the girls came with packages, maybe - gifts. Of course, they had things that could not be bought in a regular store.

Cavaliers are a holiday at their expense. Why not? The case is young. " A year later, she moved to Switzerland, where she got a job at Laytron AG, selling computer equipment. It would seem that the peak of the dreams of a young girl was achieved, but three years later an event occurred that made Bogdanov famous. Margarita’s neighbor was the owner of the control package of Louis Dreyfus Robert Louis Dreifus, which was twice as long as it.

This successful entrepreneur was considered invincible in poker, in his youth spent some time in the Israeli kibbutz and even managed to take part in the six -day war with the Arabs.

Margarita claims that when she met Robert on an airplane, he was in torn jeans, and revealed his true wealth even when a strong relationship began between them. A formal occasion for the first conversation on the plane was a general enthusiasm for dogs. Margarita still often appears in public, holding a small white dog in her arms. For 10 years, Margarita gave birth to three sons.

At the age of 63, Robert died of leukemia. This was for Bogdanova the greatest test in life. The regency of the widowers in the year, Margarita Louis-Dreifus had to desperately fight for control of the company of the late husband. The Louis-Dreifus family jealously perceived the fact that for the first time in its history, the corporation was not controlled by the direct heir to Leopold, but a foreigner, and even Russian.

This provoked the strongest crisis in the relationship between shareholders, which was not fully resolved. The family with the "guardian of the throne" in the person of Margaret is a purely business relationship. The fact that the wedding with Robert was able to take place only after the death of my mother-in-law, Matilda Louis-Dreifus was said about how Margarita was perceived in the Dreyfus family.

Before death, Robert decided on a very important step. He created an independent company Akira BV, into which he transferred his control stake in Louis Dreyfus Commodities and determined Margarita as the trustee of this private company. Their mother is only the temporary manager of this state and holds the post of chairman of the supervisory board, as well as the non -fulfillment director at Louis Dreyfus.

This was done in order to protect the company, torn by the interests of the growing number of family shareholders. For 10 years, Margarita gave birth to Robert Louis-Dreifus three sons. Having gained control over the largest package of shares in the third largest agrotreder in the world, Margarita had to study very quickly. The French newspaper Le Point in the year wrote about Margarita that she is Reines Blanches - “The bright queen of the vast kingdom of wheat, oranges, sugarcane, cotton, oil, and natural gas”.

You just need to listen to your own life experience, intuition and make decisions in this way. ” Bogdanova assures: her goal is to preserve the Louis Dreyfus group for the heirs of Robert, such was the dying desire of her husband. In the second year of her stay in the post of head of the corporation, Margarita complained: "This is a male world, and men do not take women seriously." Nevertheless, those who did not accept the new head of the company seriously paid quickly.