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$107 Billion Empire : Who is Henry Kravis

Behind all of the dealmaking, Kravis and Roberts, also 63, now lord over an industrial empire that dwarfs some of the world’s mightiest public corporations. As of May 31, the firm had a hand in 36 companies that together generated about $107 billion of revenue in 2006, according to figures KKR posted on its Web site. That’s more than Coca-Cola Co., Microsoft Corp. and Walt Disney Co. put together.

These companies employed 560,000 people, more than either Citigroup Inc. or General Electric Co. In fact, more people work for KKR companies than live in Atlanta, Miami or St. Louis. Now that Blackstone has gone public, KKR may try to do the same, opening Kravis’s realm to stock-market investors.

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