tycoon

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tycoon

1. a business man of great wealth and power

2. an archaic name for a shogun

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The main business of Tycoon Beverage Group (the "Group") is the producing and sales of branded fruit tea flavored drinks making use of haws in mainland China, with production plants based at Tianjin, China.

Sewco International Memorandum of Understanding Relating to Possible Purchase of Drink Business

He lives in a village near Stratford and is now a well-established poet as well as a print tycoon.

0ne of the richest in Midlands; RICH LIST: Cov school sponsor's pounds 630m fortune

Among them is 27-year-old Yang Huiyan, the daughter of a property tycoon, who has slipped from first to third place because of the slump in China's property market, according to Forbes, which put her net worth at $2.2 billion.

Aluminum tycoon 'China's richest man' with $3 bil

Cairo: Cracks have surfaced among the defence lawyers for Egyptian business tycoon Hesham Tala'at Mustafa, charged with involvement in the killing of Lebanese singer Suzan Tamim, surfaced on Sunday as one of his lawyers threatened to quit a few weeks before the trial begins.

Suzan murder accused's lawyer wants to quit

Tycoon helped ITV1 get its worst all-hours performance for a Tuesday so far this year and its third-worst peak-time performance this year.

Weak start for dragon's new TV venture

And he's prepared to put his money and experience where his mouth is by mentoring six new businesses, who will live and work together in Tycoon Tower on London's Southbank.

tv & radio: Dragon puts the wannabe tycoons to work

Tycoon, was heard telling a hard-boiled colonel --"First time I've ridden in an upper since I was a youngster beating my expense account.

The lady had a baby

Hands-On Mobile, a publisher of mobile lifestyle, games and personalisation products, reported on Thursday (22 February) that it has released the sequel to Monopoly Tycoon, called Monopoly Tycoon 2007.

Hands-On Mobile releases Monopoly Tycoon 2007

The tycoon entertained deputy PM Prescott at his 35,000-acre ranch in Colorado.

Prezza Dome buddy in bid

Shares in the owner of pub chains All Bar One and Harvester fell back today following the failure of a takeover attempt by tycoon Robert Tchenguiz.

No takeover of pub chains

The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century (Knopf, $30) is one of the best and most complete histories of the man written, and adds to the understanding of Ford's many and oft-times contradictory views and actions.

THE SAGE OF DEARBORN

Following up last year's hit, Zoo Tycoon, comes the sequel loaded with just about every animal on the planet available as attractions.