David Yakobashvili - businessman and collector

Yakobashvili David Mikhailovich - co-founder of the company "Wimm-Bill-Dann" (WBD). Member of a large number of charitable and cultural and educational institutions. Head of the RUIE. This article will describe a brief biography of a businessman.

School

1957 - this is the year when David Mikhailovich Yakobashvili was born. The boy's family has Georgian and Jewish roots. Parents gave David to school with a medical bias. Although Yakobashvili himself dreamed of becoming a diplomat. Later, he refused this idea because of his name. After graduating from school, David entered the Polytechnic Institute (Tbilisi) on the specialty "Civil and industrial construction". Soon the family started financial difficulties. The young man had to quit his studies and go to work.

Growing piglets

During the day, David Yakobashvili worked in the laboratory of the Metallurgical University, and at night - a laborer in Metrostroi. Subsequently, he started recording and repairing audio equipment. Then David settled into private security and installed alarm houses. In 1982, for the Ministry of Internal Affairs, one program appeared. Its essence was that they were allowed to take on growing piglets, and then return them to the state and receive money for the difference in weight. Ikobavshili ignited this idea. Together with his friend, he built a small farm outside the city and brought 200 pigs. A year later, the future head of Wimm-Bill-Dann handed over the animals and made a profit.

First business

In the 1980s, Yakobashvili David Mikhailovich decided to leave Georgia. He lived in Sweden, Finland and Germany, where he worked as a driver and cleaner. In 1988, a young man came to Moscow. Familiar Finns asked David for help in finding a company that manufactures parts for euro pallets. Yakobashvili quickly found the right factory and earned the first big money - 22.5 thousand marks. After that, he immediately bought himself a Mercedes.

In 1988, David and his friends opened the first floating hotel on the Moscow River in the capital. Then he created Trinity. At the same time, he bought a share in the health salon "Ginseng" on Pokrovka. This institution was the first Soviet cooperative. The largest line of business of the company "Trinity" was the sale of second-hand American cars. Together with partners, Yakobashvili traveled to the USA for Chevrolet and Cadillacs. Also David was driving a trucker from Finland. In 1991, the hero of this article opened in Russia the dealer center "General Motors". In addition, Yakobashvili was engaged in neon advertising, furnishing the hotel Metropol, and also put the first anti-theft radio beacons on the cars.

Wimm-Bill-Dann

This company appeared in Russia in 1992. Sergey Plastinin, David Yakobashvili, Mikhail Dubinin and other partners rented a line for bottling juices at the Lianozovo Dairy Plant . And they took a loan of $ 50 thousand for start-up capital. Initially, the juices bore the name of the company itself, consonant with the English "Wimbledon." And in 1994 the founders came up with the brand J7 (Seven Juices). After 12 months WBD repurchased the shares of Lianozovo Combine.

IPO

In 2002, Wimm-Bill-Dann conducted an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange. Thus, it became the first food company in Russia to carry out an IPO. The placement of WBD was estimated at $ 830 million. Most of all the shares were acquired by the French "Danone". Before the procedure, IPO "Wimm-Bill-Dann" has fully and reliably revealed all necessary information about itself in the issue prospectus. It was even pointed out that one of the company's shareholders (Gabriel Yushvayev) had a previous conviction.

Hobbies

David Yakobashvili loves go-karting, deep-sea swimming and riding a motorcycle. For many people, a businessman is known as a collector of musical instruments and antiques. The Russian press wrote a lot about this. The extensive meeting of a businessman does not have world analogues.

History of the collection

In the 1980s, David Yakobashvili, whose biography is presented above, went to Sweden to work. At first, the young man took care of the sick, and then began to drive cars from there to Russia. In Sweden, David made friends with Bill Lidval, a collector of mechanical tools and a director of a construction company. In 2000, he decided to give Yakobashvili his collection of self-playing ancient instruments. Bill was very sick and was afraid that the children would sell a valuable collection after his death. And he really trusted the hero of this article.

David Yakobashvili continued the work of Lidval. Now in his collection you can find many unique tools. For example, two small mechanical organs from France. At one time they owned Louis XVII and Louis XVIII (monarchs). These are rare tools that exist in a single copy. Also, David has a symphony belonging to Adolf Hitler. And in the collection of Yakobashvili there are rare barbells of the Italian master Bachi Galupo. The first of them dates from the beginning of the XVIII century.