Five Star Island, Bermuda
Five Star Island is an island of Bermuda.
Geography
[edit]Five Star Island, also known as Wilson Island is situated in the Little Sound on the North Coast of Bermuda in the Parish of Southampton.
Owners
[edit]Until 2012, Five Star Island was owned by one of Bermuda's wealthiest residents, Curt Engelhorn who, according to Forbes had a net worth as of March 2012 of $6.6 billion.[1] Originally from Germany, Engelhorn is a resident of Gstaad, Switzerland who owned a major share holding in the Bermuda-registered German pharmaceutical multinational company, Corange Ltd. Corange Ltd., in turn, owned Boehringer Mannheim and DePuy Inc. Engelhorn netted $5 billion when he sold his 40% share of Corange to Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche in 1997 for US$11 billion. During his time in Bermuda, he made large donations to the Bermuda College and the Bermuda Biological Station.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Curt Engelhorn & family". Forbes. Retrieved 12 April 2023.
- ^ "Bermuda's world business leaders and their locally-incorporated companies". www.bermuda-online.org. Retrieved 12 April 2023.
32°15′N 64°51′W / 32.250°N 64.850°W
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