Issad Rebrab
Algiers, Algeria
Algeria
food, Self Made
$3,700,000,000
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#568 Billionaires 2019
#6 Africa's Billionaires 2019
Issad Rebrab is the founder and CEO of Cevital, Algeria's biggest privately-held company. Cevital owns one of the largest sugar refineries in the world, with the capacity to produce 2 million tons a year.Cevital owns European companies, including French home appliances maker Groupe Brandt, an Italian steel mill and a German water purification company.Rebrab has plans to build a steel mill in Brazil to produce train tracks and improve transportation logistics for sugar, corn and soy flour exports.His five children work at Cevital.
Rebrab is the son of militants who fought for Algeria's independence from France.Cevital helped finance a biopic on Algerian resistance hero Larbi Ben M'hidi, who was executed by the French in 1957.
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