DUN'S 100 - 2016

Holding & Investment

Companies

2016

DUN’S

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DUN’S

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DUN’S

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Holding, Management & Investment Companies

Arison Group

he Arison Group – a global business and

philanthropic group. Owned by business-

woman and philanthropist Shari Arison,

it leads the vision of Doing Good through values-

based investments in business and philanthropy

worldwide, focusing on added value to the econ-

omy, people, and environment.

The Arison Group comprises Arison Investments,

its business arm, and The Ted Arison Family

Foundation, its philanthropic arm, and is active

in more than 40 countries across five continents

worldwide.

Shari Arison

An American-Israeli businesswoman and philan-

thropist, owner of the Arison Group. For more than

two decades, Arison is leading values-based com-

panies and organizations worldwide to realize the

vision of Doing Good.

Arison Investments

A leading global investments company, the busi-

ness armof the Arison Group. Headed by Chairman

and CEO Efrat Peled, Arison Investmentsmanages

a diversified portfolio valued at over $2.5 billion,

investing in values-led businesses that combine

substantial financial performance with sustainable

moral responsibility.

Arison Investments provides innovative long-term

responses to the basic needs of large populations,

with values-based business activities spanning

more than 40 countries across 5 continents, in

finance, infrastructure, real estate, renewable en-

ergy, water, and salt.

Arison Investments companies

Finance: Bank Hapoalim

Arison Investments holds the controlling stake

at Bank Hapoalim, Israel’s leading financial ser-

vices group. The bank is committed to promoting

the value of Financial Freedom, and provides its

customers with the tools and knowledge to inde-

pendently make financially educated choices. In

more than 90 years of operation, the bank has

developed an extensive network of branches, of-

fering a wide range of financial services in Israel

and abroad.

In Israel, the bank caters to its customers mainly

through the Corporate and Retail divisions. The

bank’s Corporate Division serves most of its busi-

ness and commercial clients via its system of 22

business branches, business centers, and expert

sectors. Through the Retail Division’s network of

250 branches, the bank serves households, pri-

vate banking, and small business customers.

BankHapoalim’s extensive overseas activities fo-

cus on private banking and commercial banking,

managed by its International Financial markets

and Banking Division. Operations are carried out

by its banking subsidiaries, financial firms, over-

seas branches, and representative offices. The

bank is also commercially involved with banks

throughout the world. The bank’s activities are

spread over Europe, US, Canada, Latin America,

Hong Kong.

The bank has attained top international rankings

byMoody’s (A2), Standard & Poor’s (A-), Fitch (A-),

and in Israel by leading S&P Maalot (AAA) and

MIDROOG (aaA). It was ranked Israel’s Best Bank

by three leading financial magazines The Banker

(2011, 2012, 2015), Global Finance (2012, 2013,

2014, 2015), and Euromoney (2012, 2013, 2014,

2015), and awarded the FTSE4Good ESG maxi-

mum score of 99 (2013).

Real estate and infrastructure: Shikun & Binui

Arison Investments holds the controlling stake at

Shikun & Binui, Israel’s leading infrastructures

and real estate group, traded on the TASE. Op-

erating since the early 1920s, Shikun & Binui

group of companies are extensively experienced

in large-scale complex projects in construction,

infrastructure, real estate, concessions, renewable

energy, andwater in Israel and abroad. It has been

operating in the global arena for more than 60

years, and its companies are currently working in

20 countries spanning four continents, primarily

in the developing world.

Shikun & Binui group of companies includes the

major companies Shikun & Binui S.B.I. Infrastruc-

ture, Shikun & Binui Solel Boneh Infrastructure,

Shikun &Binui Real Estate Development Int’l, Shi-

kun & Binui RED, Shikun & Binui Water, Shikun &

Binui Renewable Energy, and other companies

mostly in the field of concessions.

In Israel, Shikun & Binui has built over 190,000

housing units, and is engaged in mega-projects

in infrastructure and real estate, including High-

way 6 (Trans-Israel Highway), Carmel Tunnels,

Hadera desalination plant, student dormitories

at Tel Aviv University, Israel Police Force training

facility, Ashalim thermo-solar energy power plant,

Gilboa pumped-storage hydroelectric plant, and

more.

In the global arena, Shikun & Binui builds hy-

droelectric power plants, roads, bridges, and

large-scale complex projects that connect be-

tween communities, bringing added value and

substantially advancing the local societies at the

vicinity of its projects.

Shikun & Binui spearheads Sustainability, and

operates to realize this value also through pro-

gressive green-building in infrastructure and real

estate projects. It applies eco-friendly methods

and recycled materials that are less harmful to

people and the environment, while considering

andmaintaining close partnershipswith itsmajor

interest holders, employees, clients, suppliers,

and others.

Shikun & Binui companies comply with leading

international eco standards, and its headquarters

relocated to a LEED (Leadership in Energy and

Environment Design) Gold standard compliant of-

fice complex. In 2013, it received the prestigious

Green Globus award, as a leading company that

implements significant sustainable solutions in

its core business activities, making sustainability

a principal component in its vision and decision

making processes, based on combined social,

economic, and environmental considerations.

Industry: Salt of the Earth

Salt of the Earth is a private subsidiary of Ari-

son Investments, focusing on industry. Israel’s

leading producer of salt since 1922, Salt of the

Earth serves consumer, industrial and agricultural

markets. The company strives to innovate and

focuses on developing new products in response

to customer needs and future challenges.

With the value of Vitality guiding its activities in

Israel and its export markets, Salt of the Earth

produces sea salt in a natural and clean process

of solar vaporization of RedSea water in Eilat and

Esta b l i s h e d

1991

L i n e o f b u s i n ess

Business investments in finance, real estate,

infrastructure, renewable energy, water, and salt;

Social investments and strategic philanthropy in

education, culture, art and sports, children and

youth, disadvantaged populations, disabilities

and special needs, and health.

Jason Arison

Chairman, The Ted Arison

Family Foundation *

Efrat Peled

Chairman & CEO,

Arison Investments *

Shlomit de Vries

CEO, The Ted Arison

Family Foundation *

Shari Arison

Owner *