Cold Steel: Lakshmi Mittal and the Multi-Billion-Dollar Battle for a Global Empire

By: Tim Bouquet

Published April 17th 2008 (first published April 3rd 2008)

Category: Business

ISBN: 9780316028073

Description:
Cold Steel presents the story of the 2006 takeover of Arcelor, a venerated European steel company, by Lakshmi Mittal, a Calcutta-born industrialist who rose from humble beginnings to become the worldÕs fourth-richest man.

Mr Bouquet, a journalist and contributor to the Telegraph magazine, and Mr Ousey, a managing director at Gavin Anderson, an international financial public relations consultancy, take readers inside the battle that sent shockwaves through the political corridors of Europe and transformed the global steel industry.