Red Bull Co-Founder Dies in Thailand

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipeCb_PuZg6xG5RfeIKxIr8S9J89nh1PWrbS995qU69J4nxlvErfnZDVGN7u6OeOlr9nprgop7oqr-JdFFUv-KFpMBRWAEaF6PL6yYmHthB-S6vJY9c6OcwtX78m97qE3GyYDqvpYcWQM/s1600/110258650_7024c7ddba_z.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipeCb_PuZg6xG5RfeIKxIr8S9J89nh1PWrbS995qU69J4nxlvErfnZDVGN7u6OeOlr9nprgop7oqr-JdFFUv-KFpMBRWAEaF6PL6yYmHthB-S6vJY9c6OcwtX78m97qE3GyYDqvpYcWQM/s320/110258650_7024c7ddba_z.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>Red Bull – Energy Drink<o:p></o:p></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>Photo © <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/themastershakesignal/110258650/"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">flickr.com/themastershakesignal</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></div></td></tr> </tbody></table><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">MOSCOW (RIA Novosti)--- Billionaire Chaleo Yoovidhya, one of the founders of energy drink Red Bull, died at the age of 89 in Thailand, the Bangkok Post newspaper reported on Saturday.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Chaleo died in a hospital in the Thai city of Bangkok. He was the country's second richest man with a fortune of $5 billion last year according to Forbes.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">His TC Pharmaceuticals company has been producing a tonic drink called Krating Daeng ("Red Bull") since 1970s using caffeine, taurine and B vitamins as ingredients.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> The drink became very popular among factory shift workers and truck drivers.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In the 1980s Chaleo founded Red Bull with Austrian entrepreneur Dietrich Mateschitz and they started selling the drink in Austria in 1987.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Nowadays Red Bull is being sold in 160 countries worldwide and is one of the most famous energy drinks.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

Red Bull Co-Founder Dies in Thailand

Red Bull – Energy Drink Photo © flickr.com/themastershakesignal MOSCOW (RIA Novosti)--- Billionaire Chaleo Yoovidhya, one of the founder...

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