Tata, Mittal, Nooyi among Fortune list of 25 business heads

27 Nov 2007

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Mumbai: Corporate leader Ratan Tata, Steel tycoon L N Mittal and PepsiCo''s Indra Nooyi are among top 25 most powerful business heads named by business magazine Fortune.
The Fortune list has named Ratan Tata as the world''s 23rd most powerful person in business, ahead of CEOs of media and entertainment giant Walt-Disney and French luxury goods major LVMH.

PepsiCo chief Indra Nooyi, who topped an earlier Fortune list of world''s most powerful business women for second year, ranks 22nd in the latest list, led by Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs.

Lakshmi Mittal, largest shareholder and CEO of the world''s top steelmaker ArcelorMittal, is ranked 14th in the list. Mittal''s name figures ahead of CEOs of JPMorgan Chase, Hewlett-Packard, Boeing, BHP Billiton, Blackstone and Mexican business tycoon Carlos Slim.

Apple''s Steve Jobs is followed by media baron Rupert Murdoch (2nd), Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein (3rd), Google''s founder-CEO trio Eric Schmidt, Larry Page and Sergei Brin (4th) and legendary investor and Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett (5th).

"Some are empire builders. Others are hired guns. But if they truly have world-class oomph, they''re on Fortune''s subjective - yet really quite accurate - list of the most powerful businesspeople in the world," the magazine said in its cover story of the latest issue.

The Fortune ranking closely follows a list by another global business publication Forbes, released earlier this month, that named India''s richie-rich led by Mittal and Ambanis, but there was no mention of Ratan Tata.

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