Companies with Islamic ownership ties

6.14.02 | Michael King

[mhking]

Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Caribou Coffee Company, Inc. is the second largest non-franchised specialty coffeehouse chain in the United States. Caribou sells premium brewed coffee and roasted whole bean coffee, as well as teas, bakery goods and related products. The Company’s store interiors have the look and feel of an Alaskan lodge, lending an inviting and cozy atmosphere, and its coffee is custom roasted to provide a high quality proprietary product. At year-end 2000, Caribou owned and operated approximately 150 retail stores located in Minnesota, Illinois, Georgia, Michigan, Ohio and North Carolina.

In December 2000, the First Islamic Group and its co-investors closed the acquisition of an 87.8% interest in Caribou Coffee Company, Inc.

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[ContentiousObjector]

Checkout the major investors in FOX

[RedBloodedAmerican]

How about this big?

[mhking]

In April 2000, the First Islamic Group and its co-investors formed a joint venture with Archstone Communities Trust ("Archstone") to acquire a portfolio of five suburban apartment complexes in the United States, in the first of a series of real estate offerings.

In June 2000, the First Islamic Group and its co-investors formed a joint venture with Archstone Communities Trust ("Archstone") to acquire a portfolio of six suburban apartment complexes in the United States, in the second of a series of real estate offerings.

The two joint ventures, First Multifamily Properties & Second Multifamily Properties have properties in Albuquerque, Atlanta, Houston, Nashville, Phoenix, Raleigh, Richmond, Salt Lake City & San Antonio.

[Mo1]

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[mhking]

While I'll admit that I haven't looked at every single company listed, the investment page of their most recent annual report (http://www.newscorp.com/report2001/fin_con/shareholder.html) doesn't indicate any significant Islamic investment.

Have I missed something that you are pointing toward?

[MissAmericanPie]

This thread is a great idea, we need to know just how deeply the Saudi's are involved in US corporations, and how deep they are into the pockets of politicians.

Doesn't Prince Abdullah own alot of AOL Time Warner?

[mhking]

Here's the list of major investors in NewsCorp:

Shareholder Information
as at 16 August, 2001

Top twenty shareholders as at 16 August, 2001
Cruden Investments Pty. Limited and controlled entities	607,821,230
Citicorp Nominees Pty. Limited	409,192,990
Chase Manhattan Nominees Limited	227,898,049
National Nominees Limited	168,204,330
Westpac Custodian Nominees Limited	129,762,642
ANZ Nominees Limited	77,129,127
AMP Life Limited	37,623,252
Queensland Investment Corporation	34,592,673
Commonwealth Custodial Services Limited	32,096,540
JP Morgan Custodial Services Pty. Limited	23,000,053
HSBC Custody Nominees (Australia) Limited	20,759,429
Cogent Nominees Pty. Limited	19,067,431
Perpetual Trustees Victoria Limited	15,052,057
MLC Limited	14,966,307
RBC Global Services Australia Nominees Pty. Limited	13,653,024
The National Mutual Life Association of Australasia Limited	11,133,492
Perpetual Trustees Nominees Limited	10,304,864
Perpetual Nominees Limited	9,788,969
News Nominees Pty. Limited	9,151,882
NRMA Nominees Pty. Limited	8,897,830
	1,880,096,171
Percentage of issued ordinary shares held by twenty largest holders	89.88%
Substantial shareholders
Cruden Investments Pty. Limited and controlled entities	607,821,230

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[mhking]

Doesn't Prince Abdullah own alot of AOL Time Warner?

AOL Time Warner's largest institutional shareholders, based on 13F filings from March 31, 2002, are listed below:

	Shareholder	Position
1.	Fidelity Management & Research	158,814,556
2.	Janus Capital Corporation	155,668,889
3.	Barclays Global Investors	142,420,458
4.	Capital Research & Management	114,703,820
5.	State Street Global Advisors	99,297,228
6.	Alliance Capital Management L.P.	90,159,344
7.	Wellington Management Company, LLP	76,921,354
8.	Vanguard Group, Inc.	72,224,290
9.	Smith Barney Asset Management	71,597,314
10.	Deutsche Asset Management Americas	55,974,883
11.	College Retirement Equities Fund	44,095,445
12.	Goldman Sachs Asset Management	38,879,693
13.	Mellon Bank (Private Asset Management)	31,782,759
14.	J.P. Morgan Investment Mgmt. Inc.	29,102,926
15.	Legg Mason Capital Management, Inc.	26,663,183
16.	T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.	25,567,970
17.	Putnam Investment Management, Inc.	23,711,859
18.	Merrill Lynch Investment Managers	23,431,712
19.	AIM Management Group, Inc.	23,373,412
20.	California Public Employees' Ret Sys	19,397,316

[Mo1]

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[Paul Atreides]

That was extremely rude and uncalled for.

[MissAmericanPie]

Thanks for the response, but who has controlling interset in those corporations that own AOL Time Warner? The reason I asked was because I caught a snippet on the news about Abdullah and AOL Time Warner.

Looks like I'm going to be doing some digging on goole.com.

[mhking]

Looks like I'm going to be doing some digging on goole.com.

If you find anything, please post it here so that everyone else has an idea as to what's going on. Thanks!

[F-117A]

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[xm177e2]

If Muslims gave lots of money to FR, would we have to boycott this web site?

[MissAmericanPie]

Lookie here, I had the wrong Saudi Prince, but to me they all sound alike.

Former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani may have returned Prince al-Waleed's $10 million contribution to a World Trade Center relief fund last October, but that hasn't stopped the 46-year-old Saudi royal from injecting $1 billion into the U.S. stock markets since then. In recent months, he has upped his investments in major American corporations like AOL-­Time Warner, and Citigroup, in which he is the largest individual shareholder.

The world's 11th-richest person found plenty of other places to put his money and influence, though. He is now forming a $1 billion Kingdom Hotel Investment Group to invest in hotels in the Middle East. And during the KirchMedia crisis, he offered to mediate between Rupert Murdoch and fellow stakeholders. Paparazzi may trail some princes, but money managers follow this one.

This isn't all I have found, seems the Saudi's are very interested in investing in agriculture, wouldn't have anything to do with the huge Farm Bill that just passed into law would it? Nice to know they may have a big stake in the control of corporate farming, to which most of the Farm Bill "pork" will go, not to mention control of our FOOD!! Those sneaky Muslims only pretend not to like alcohol, exotic dancers, and pork.

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