EBX Group
| Conglomerate | |
| Industry | Infrastructure, Energy, Mining, Shipping |
| Founded | 1984 |
| Headquarters | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
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Key people
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Eike Batista (CEO) |
| Subsidiaries | OGX, MMX, OSX Brasil, CCX, REX, IMX, SIX, AUX, NRX Newrest |
| Website | www.ebx.com.br |
EBX Group comprises six companies listed in BOVESPA’s Novo Mercado: OGX (oil), MMX (mining), OSX (offshore industry), and CCX (coal mining). These companies are controlled by the Brazilian entrepreneur Eike Batista, the chairman of the EBX Group.
Between 2011 and 2012, EBX Group invested US$ 15.7 billion, generating 20,000 jobs in the construction and operation of its enterprises. Over the succeeding years, it will invest US$ 50 billion. The group primarily invests in the sectors of infrastructure and natural resources. It also has initiatives in real estate, technology, entertainment, sports and gold mining, as well as in the air and rail catering sectors.
EBX Group is active in nine Brazilian states, Chile, Canada and Colombia, and has offices in New York (USA).
The EBX Group activities started in the early 1980s, with a project that was conceived and executed by Eike Batista: “Novo Planeta”, the first mechanized alluvial gold mine in the Amazon. Over the course of that decade, Batista became chairman of the board and CEO of TVX Gold. It was starting with this company - listed in Canada’s Toronto Stock Exchange - that Batista’s relationship with the global capital markets began.
Between 1980 and 2000, he raised US$ 20 billion in value through the implementation and operation of nine gold and silver mines in Brazil and Canada (Amapari, Casa Berardi, Crixás, Musselwhite, New Britania, Novo Astro, Novo Planeta, and Paracatu), as well as a mine in Chile (La Coipa). In the 2000s, he began operating three iron ore mines in Brazil (Mina 63, Tico Tico, and Ipê). Between 2004 and 2012, Batista structured and went public with six companies: OGX, MPX, LLX, MMX, OSX, and CCX.
Until 2014, EBX will invest R$ 30 million in the training of 25,000 workers and has simultaneously allocated approximately R$ 20 million in financing for projects and partnerships with universities in Brazil, Chile, Colombia and China. This support encompasses more than ten universities and educational institutions. Among the beneficiaries are Alberto Luiz Coimbra Institute - Graduate School and Research in Engineering (COPPE) of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), China’s Tsinghua University, the Institute of Nuclear and Energy Research (IPEN), and the University of Valparaiso in Chile.
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