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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 10 Holsen: Focus on the fun In central Switzerland Jona town of only 15,000 of the population, the 59-year-old Thomas Schmidheiny (Thomas Schmidheiny) and his wife, Suzanne often gave her four children to the local public schools. In accordance with the family tradition of self-reliance, the youngest child in the garden by working to earn pocket money, Thomas, this view is: ‘an employer to give him a salary of USD 8 per hour - is too much. ‘ As a one-day warm-up exercise, Jona Thomas Schmidheiny inhabitants of the town is always about 62 degrees Fahrenheit, Lake Zurich, the middle one and a half hours, and then go to work. Lunch is very simple, usually salads and fish, but not sloppy table wine - a glass of Chardonnay white wine, carefully blended Xia Du, Thomas’s face always filled with a happy smile. This is the Swiss industry’s most influential Schmidheiny family, the main successor is currently the fourth generation of the daily life of Thomas Schmidheiny. He was in charge of the holsen (Holcim Group) is now the world’s second largest cement and concrete production groups, in over 70 countries with more than 110 cement plants. Forbes Rich List 2002, the disclosure of Thomas worth 2.4 billion U.S. dollars, while Thomas’s younger brother, 57-year-old Stephen Schmidheiny (Stephan Schmidheiny) as high as 3.1 billion. Although the business minded than his brother Stephen favorably, but not too much involved in family business. Despite the Schmidheiny family in Switzerland and around the world with access to finance, real estate, luxury brands, optical instruments, aerospace, machinery processing and other businesses, but it seems to cement the layman rather boring business is the most deep-rooted family to make a living. From the beginning in 1912 to focus on concrete business, Schmidheiny family has a family business will be distributed within the members of the family tradition. That year financial group called the Holder Burbank (Ho