The Alchemists: The INEOS Story - An Industrial Giant Comes of Age

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This is the story of how self-made billionaire and entrepreneur Jim Ratcliffe built one of the world's biggest companies in just twenty years. What began in 1998 as a small Belgium manufacturing business is now a $60 billion global colossus on a mission to save Europe's chemicals industry.

Born into a working-class family in Manchester, Ratcliffe has gambled everything to get where he is. From persuading a single bank to lend him $9 billion to being within days of going under, his is truly a tale of our times.

An extreme sports enthusiast and inveterate risk- taker, Ratcliffe's company INEOS is now leading the UK's shale gas revolution and is poised to begin revitalising the North Sea oil fields. Although al low- profile figure in UK public life, Ratcliffe's life story puts those of far better-known businessmen in the shade.

High Satekes is a rags-to-riches story, which dramatically details the company's twenty-year trajectory to becoming a multi -billion pound world-wide business group and significant player in the chemical and oil industries.

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Jim Ratcliffe is a British chemical engineer turned financier and industrialist.He is the chairman and chief executive officer of the INEOS chemicals group, which he founded in 1998. INEOS is one of the world's largest manufacturers of chemicals and oil products, with sales of $54 billion, employing 15,000 people. He is currently developing a chain of international hotels. Away from his business interests Ratcliffe has walked to both the North and South Poles and competes in marathons.