Biografía de Carlos Ardila Lule

Born in the city of Bucaramanga, Dept. Santander, Colombia on July 4, 1931. His primary was made in Zapatoca, Santander. At fifteen he concluded his secondary education at the Colegio San Pedro Claver, which is run by Jesuits and is moved from the city to study the career of Civil Engineering at the School of Mines, National University of Colombia in Medellin what is Graduated in 1951. His great fortune began to take shape with the soft drink business, which was linked through LUX soda company (now part of big business Postobon HS) which initially became Plant Manager, Al be entrusted to an industrial scale expansion of this company in the city of Cali, also works in the area of trade development and promotion of new flavors (in this sector of the area of gas in 1954 is highly successful in directing and monitoring the process of development of flavored soda Manzana1 one of the first in the world with this taste, which is now a flagship product Postobón with the soft drink [kola champagne soda] Colombiana; Given this particular fact Ardila said Dr feel special affection for this achievement as a contribution to this industry) and to their commercial success with soft LUX gives way in the gradual acquisition of shares in that company to acquire Postobon then (and thus unifying the two companies) of which would become president in stage from which 19 682 would initiate the clumping special companies buying soft drinks in Colombia during the final decades of the twentieth century, other companies engaged in the processing of the same type of products in all other regions in Colombia this under the same management and business coverage Postobón SA After his great success with the non-alcoholic beverage companies investing in companies that are directly related to raw materials of soda and invests in sugar mills and this remarkable building and corporate control Dr. Ardila configure an entire training business group in which later investments were concentrated in the area of textiles and the media (radio, tv, albums) initially gained the company national coverage radio RCN Radio Cadena Nacional 19 723 which then add in parallel 1978, a television programmer on the same platform, in this case RCN TV, which in 1998 became a leading private channel TV with open sign on the Colombian territory and further develop in 2008 a new and alternate channel tv cable signal called NTN24; acquired company Coltejer in 1978 remained as leader of the textile sector in the Department of Antioquia and Colombia and which prevented an almost imminent liquidation venderla4 to power in 2008 the Mexican business group Kaltex South America SA thus giving continuity to both the representative and the company brand, emblem of the textile sector, and similarly managed to preserve the stability of the employees of that company. Correlation With all this investment diversification, Dr. Ardila continues to perform strongly with large investments and special industrial developments (such as alternative power generation and ethanol production) and thus it has managed to get their business group known internationally today Ardila Lulle Organization, in a privileged position both financially and industrially today is one of the four most important throughout Colombia with the Grupo Empresarial Bavaria at the head of Julio Mario Santo Domingo, the financial and construction group Grupo AVAL of Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo and GEA (GEA), known in Colombia and Antioquia Union. Ardila has been equally distinguished in Colombia by the National Government with the award Order of the Grand Cross of Boyaca (highest award given to civil level in Colombia) and the merit of having been chosen as the Entrepreneur of the twentieth century by leading senior Colombia and academics in the field of Business Administration, and has had the honor of receiving the letter of the Spanish nature held by the same King of Spain Don Juan Carlos I de Borbón, is also listed as one of the richest men in Latin America to the point have appeared on several occasions in the prestigious Forbes list, your business assets are estimated at about 1,000 million dólares.5