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Billionaires on a hiring spree, globally

March 24, 2009

Besides, Japan's richest person Tadashi Yanai and the country's online retail baron Hiroshi Mikitani, Hong Kong's Li Ka-Shing and Germany's wealthiest person Karl Albrecht also have massive hiring plans, the report said.

Later this month, Perot Systems would open a large facility in Chennai, India, that could generate up to 1,000 jobs, while a new project in the United States would create an additional 150 positions.

While the report did not mention any Indian billionaires, those companies having announced massive recruitment plans despite the current economic scenario, although at least two entities from the business conglomerate run by Anil Ambani, who was incidentally named as the biggest loser of wealth over the past one year, has plans of recruiting people.

Image: Rakuten Inc CEO Hiroshi Mikitani speaks during a news briefing in Tokyo. | Photograph: Michael Caronna/Reuters

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