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Sea of successes: 'Zim' celebrated the most successful year in its history
The past year has given ZIM a lot of reasons to party.
This week, the company's controlling shareholder, Idan Ofer, senior Israeli officials and ZIM employees gathered at the house to celebrate the company's successful IPO on the New York Stock Exchange at the beginning of the year.
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Thursday, 10 June 2021, 11:59 Updated: 13:40
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Idan Ofer and his wife Batya hosted Zim CEO Eli Glickman and senior members of the company and the Israeli economy for a big dinner and celebration.
"Idan was the only person who believed in Zim all the way, supported her and prevented the company from falling," Glickman said at the event. While many others raised their hands.
It inspired me. "
Zim, which was on the verge of collapse just a few years ago, completed a $ 1.5 billion IPO in January. Since then, Zim has soared more than 200 percent and posted a net profit of 2021 in the first quarter. $ 590 million
Idan Ofer Group's Canon Holdings Group owns the main holding in the company (28 percent) .The company's historic offering occurred following an unprecedented jump in the company's results, which underwent a dramatic change under Glickman's management.
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Idan and Batya Ofer, host Eli Glickman (center) in their home (Photo: Sivan Farage)
Celebrate the successful IPO
The event was attended by the top business world in Israel and around the world and senior members of Zim, including the chairman of the company, Yair Seroussi, the outgoing head of the institution, Yossi Cohen, the chairman of Bank Hapoalim Reuven Rofik, the CEO of Bank Hapoalim Bank Leumi has Hanan Friedman, the owners of the insurance company Harel Yair and Ilana Hamburger, Gideon and Hannah Hamburger, Udi Angel.
Also present at the event: former Zim chairman Aharon Fogel, Alfred Akirov, Amikam Cohen, attorney David Hodak, attorney Danny Geva, Rakefet and Ram Rusk-Aminah, Michael Borsch, a senior Citibank bank executive, Jonathan Fenkin, CEO of Goldman Sachs Israel, Aviad Kaufman, Yoav Duplet, Yair Caspi, Nitzan and Gad Somekh and other senior executives from Citibank, Goldman Sachs, and Barclays Ron Proshour, former Israeli Ambassador to the UN, CEOs of the leading insurance companies in the country.
Idan Ofer (left) and Eli Glickman (Photo: Sivan Faraj)
A new ship, to be called 'Zim-Sami Ofer'
Idan Ofer said at the event that a few years ago, when Zim was in losses and needed economic oxygen, he was offered to buy the company as part of a slightly amusing deal: "One of the interested parties offered to buy Zim if I paid him $ 150 million. He told me: 'I will help you get rid of From the company, "Ofer, who also owns 33 percent of the shares of Spanish football champion Atletico Madrid, was asked what the difference is between Zim and Atletico Madrid.
"It makes no difference, Eli Glickman is Zim's manager as Diego Simeone is Atletico's manager," Ofer joked.
Glickman announced that one of the new green ships purchased by Zim would be named "Zim-Sami Ofer", after the late businessman and father of Idan, who was a major shareholder in the company.
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