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	Ernst & Young: Wayne Huizenga is Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur 2005
		Het businessverhaal van Wayne Huizenga is een uniek succesverhaal.
		Huizenga is de enige in de geschiedenis die 6 bedrijven naar de NYSE bracht en 3 bedrijven uit de Fortune 500 oprichtte.
		Wayne Huizenga is een topondernemer die van vele markten thuis is. Hij is onder meer de man achter Waste Management (de wereldleider in afvalverwerking), Republic Industries (de derde grootste Amerikaanse restafvalverwerker), Blockbuster Entertainment (de wereldleider in video entertainment) en AutoNation (het grootste autodealernetwerk in de wereld).
	www.ey.com /global/content.nsf/Belgium_D/Wayne_Huizenga_is_Ernst_&_Young_World_Entrepreneur_2005 (607 words)

	This marlin is a shark. (H. Wayne Huizenga; includes related article) (Cover Story) - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But Huizenga no doubt had received assurances from those NFL owners, whom he calls "reasonable businessmen," because he is not the kind of man to go into a business deal and be embarrassed and have to back out of it.
		Huizenga's interest in these teams is simple: He always heas felt most sports franchises have been run primarily as sports, not as business, and he saw his entry as a perfect way to prove that a franchise can be run primarily as a business and that it can turn a profit.
		Huizenga was a millionaire at 34, and by the time he retired from that firm in 1984, at the age of 45, Waste Management was the largest garbage company in the world, with contracts to pick up trash as far east a Saudi Arabia and as far south as Argentina.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-14794256.html (3670 words)

	Wayne Huizenga
		Wayne was born in Evergreen Park, a Chicago suburb, on December 29, 1937.
		Wayne is remembered by his Pine Crest teachers and class mates as a happy and popular student who played on the School's football team, was elected to senior class treasurer, and earned decent grades.
		Wayne's major responsibility was the acquisition of new clients, but it also may have involved driving one of their trucks.
	www.nnp.org /nni/Publications/Dutch-American/huizenga.html (1273 words)

	Wayne Huizenga
		Wayne Huizenga (born Harry Wayne Huizenga on December 29, 1937), has built several companies into multi-billion dollar enterprises, mostly through an aggressive process of acquisitions.
		Wayne grew up in a family that was very wealthy, but whose economic fortunes went up and down.
		Wayne Huizenga graduated from the Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1955.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/w/wa/wayne_huizenga.html (151 words)

	H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship \| Florida Business School
		Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship is the only school in the nation with entrepreneurship in its name.
		The Huizenga School of Business serves more than 6,600 students providing undergraduate degrees, master's programs and doctoral programs.
		Huizenga is one of the top business schools in the country.
	www.huizenga.nova.edu (124 words)

	Wayne Huizenga - Definition, explanation
		Wayne Huizenga (born Harry Wayne Huizenga on December 29, 1937), has built several companies into multi-billion dollar enterprises, mostly through an aggressive process of acquisitions.
		Huizenga has been scorned by the public in South Florida since the dismantling of the Florida Marlins team that won the 1997 World Series.
		Wayne Huizenga graduated from the Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1955 and is an alumnus of Calvin College.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/w/wa/wayne_huizenga.php (250 words)

	AP Wire \| 11/19/2006 \| Dolphins' owner flies in private jet (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The arrival of the modified 737 with the Miami Dolphins logo on the tail signaled that the team's owner was in town to court Louisiana State coach Nick Saban.
		Part of Huizenga's pitch to Saban included a tour of the plane's custom interior that includes recliner chairs, a card table and a shower.
		Huizenga uses it for both business and pleasure, and with 27 seats, the plane offers plenty of room for friends and family.
	www.fortwayne.com /mld/newssentinel/business/16053894.htm (464 words)

	Dolphin Stadium :: Contacts :: Bio - H. Wayne Huizenaga
		Wayne Huizenga began his active involvement in South Florida sports on March 7, 1990, when he purchased 15 percent of the Miami Dolphins and a 50 percent interest in Joe Robbie Stadium, now called Dolphin Stadium.
		Huizenga was responsible for bringing Major League Baseball to South Florida in 1993, serving as chairman of the Florida Marlins through 1998, and under his direction the Marlins won the World Series in 1997.
		Huizenga seven times as "Entrepreneur of the Year." In 2004 he was awarded the Ernst & Young United States Entrepreneur of the Year Award, and followed that by being named the 2005 Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur of the Year from a group of candidates covering 36 different countries.
	www.dolphinstadium.com /content/bio1.aspx (566 words)

	Wayne Huizenga . Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Huizenga has been scorned by the public in South Florida since the dismantling of the Florida Marlins team that won the 1997 World Series.
		Huizenga, in keeping with his previously stated intentions, sold the Marlins to current Boston Red Sox owner John Henry at the end of the 1998 season.
		Huizenga graduated from the Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1955 and is an alumnus of Calvin College located in Grand Rapids, MI.
	www.enpsychlopedia.com /psypsych/Wayne_Huizenga (457 words)

	Son of Miami Dolphins owner Wayne Huizenga sentenced for DUI (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Robert Ray Huizenga also was ordered to serve a year of house arrest and four years probation and will lose his license for 10 years, The Miami Herald reported.
		Huizenga was attempting to make a left turn in 2003, when he drove into the path of 71-year-old Irwin Feigenbaum.
		Huizenga's lawyer, David Bogenschutz, said he was appealing the denial of pre-trial motions to dismiss both counts.
	www.cbc.ca /cp/football/060922/f092288.html (164 words)

	H. Huizenga: ZoomInfo Business People Information (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Wayne Huizenga agreed in 1996 to a 10-year, $20 million arrangement with Pro Player, a New Hampshire-based division of Fruit of the Loom Inc., it didn't sit well with many area fans.
		Huizenga had hoped to have a new partner in time for the national college football championship at the stadium six months ago.
		Wayne Huizenga, Dolphin Stadium is undergoing extensive renovations and improvements expected to be completed by 2009, making Dolphin Stadium the premier stadium in the United States and the Americas.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Huizenga_H._11495949.htm (393 words)

	H. Wayne Huizenga
		Wayne ran the meetings, and he was always pressing my father-in-law for money to help pay for some lawsuit against the county, several hundred dollars a week.
		Huizenga, however, was not about to name his $95 million investment after a fat, slow-moving, nearly extinct sea mammal with an aptitude for being hacked to pieces by speeding boat propellers.
		The so-called Wayne's World was soon held out as a panacea for the local economy, a veritable geyser of jobs and tourist revenue, and a second chance for South Florida that had turned down Walt Disney when he came courting with plans for what was to become the Disney World theme park in Orlando.
	www.corporations.org /wmi/huizenga.html (8230 words)

	H. Wayne Huizenga Named 2004 National Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year(R)
		Huizenga was honored as both the overall Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year national winner as well as the winner in the Media/Entertainment/Communications Category, at a gala event on Saturday, November 20, 2004, in Palm Springs, Calif. Awards were given to 10 additional recipients at the event.
		Huizenga, along with his wife Marti, is dedicated to giving back to the community, having donated more than $100 million to local causes in South Florida.
		Huizenga will not speculate as to what his next business development will be, but says, "I've learned not to say never." National Entrepreneur Of The Year Finalists in Media/Entertainment/ Communication Category Wayne Huizenga was named both the 2004 Overall National Entrepreneur Of The Year winner and the winner in the Media/Entertainment/Communication category.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/11-21-2004/0002481020&EDATE= (1519 words)

	H. Wayne Huizenga
		Wayne Huizenga, the son of a builder, was born in a Chicago suburb in 1937.
		Huizenga served as president and COO of the company until 1984, when he retired to pursue other interests.
		Proud of his Horatio Alger Award, Huizenga says, "It is the ultimate of all awards." A long-time member of the Horatio Alger Board, Huizenga served as president and CEO from 2000 to 2002.
	www.academyofachievement.org /honorees/h_wayne_huizenga.htm (455 words)

	A Bittersweet Wayne Huizenga Says Farewell to Boca Resorts; Will Pursue New Hotel Deals Through His Investment Company ...
		The price is a 23 percent premium to the $19.15 Boca Resorts shares traded at the day before the deal was announced and 2 1/2 times the recent low of $9.60 a share reached in the first quarter of 2003.
		Huizenga said his family interests owned 47 percent of the total shares.
		Huizenga is pursuing the hotels through his investment company Huizenga Holdings.
	www.hotel-online.com /News/PR2004_4th/Dec04_WHuizenga.html (558 words)

	Golf Business Magazine - The Golf Industry's Leading Business Publication
		This man, this no-detail-is-too-small supervisor, is billionaire Wayne Huizenga, one of the most successful American entrepreneurs to emerge from the latter half of the 20th century.
		Huizenga focuses on service industries—mostly those that have recurring income, such as dumpster rental, trash collection and video rental—and searches for ways the company might better serve its customers.
		Huizenga spent the next few years acquiring small, service-oriented companies before setting his sights on a local video franchise based in Dallas known as Blockbuster.
	www.golfbusinessmagazine.com /pageview.asp?doc=1583 (2570 words)

	Chicks Eye View: In Focus
		Wayne Huizenga, was born in December of 1937, making him 64 years old at the end of this year.
		Huizenga attributes his entrepreneurial spirit to a gut instinct he has that allows him to believe in his heart that something will work even though everyone else says it will not.
		The good news is that, Wayne has made his money, he's had his success and now he has found something else to prove -- that not only can he build a business, but he can manage one as well, while changing an entire industry in the process.
	www.chickslayingnesteggs.com /arch01/v010828.html (962 words)

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		Wayne grew up in Evergreen Park until he was about 15 when the Huizenga...
		At age 22, Harry Wayne Huizenga, Jr., was at what can be characterized as a...
		Huizenga was a Congressional assistant and a former Realtor.
	www.katv.com /internetsearch.hrb?k=Huizenga (252 words)

	H. Wayne Huizenga \| 20th Century American Leaders Database
		Huizenga purchased the one-year old Blockbuster operation from its founders in 1986 and embarked on a massive expansion campaign.
		Believing that there were low barriers to entry in the video rental market, Huizenga built over 1,000 Blockbuster establishments in less than three years.
		In 1994, Huizenga arranged the sale of the company to Viacom, creating a natural distribution network for its media products.
	www.hbs.edu /leadership/database/leaders/420 (84 words)

	BW Online \| December 8, 2003 \| A Round With Wayne Huizenga
		Huizenga's retreat has also become a refuge for tour pros such as Jaspar Parnevik and Nick Price, who use the club to host fund-raisers, shoot instructional videos, or work quietly on their game away from a prying public.
		Huizenga insists that for years he instructed his financial advisers not to tell him how much he had sunk into the Floridian.
		Huizenga, who usually shoots in the low- to mid-80s on his course, admits he sometimes has a change of heart.
	www.businessweek.com /magazine/content/03_49/b3861147.htm (1429 words)

	Miami Dolphins Wayne Huizenga Ricky Williams Daunte Culpepper - Realfootball365.com
		Huizenga has repeatedly shown a commitment to take chances and bring in high caliber talent to Miami.
		Huizenga believes that Brown's three week holdout contributed to the Miami Dolphins ' slow 3-7 start that essentially kept them out of the playoffs.
		Huizenga also went onto to say that he is going to withhold judgment on Ricky Williams until his appeal is heard and that he is not concerned about Daunte Culpepper's "Love Boat" incident.
	www.realfootball365.com /nfl/articles/2006/03/wayne-huizenga-dolphins310306.html (722 words)

	The #1 entrepreneur in America - Blockbuster's Wayne Huizenga - Cover Story Success - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Huizenga now spends his days looking for a new empire to create, another chance to apply the wit, skills, and contacts that grew two multibillion-dollar companies from the ground up.
		If environment helps to shape an entrepreneur, then Harry Wayne Huizenga was born at the right time -- 1937 -- in the right place -- the Dutch Reform community of Evergreen Park, 111.
		Wayne spent most of his Sundays in church and was forbidden to read comic strips.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3514/is_n2_v42/ai_16523955 (873 words)

	The Making of a Blockbuster: How Wayne Huizenga Built a Sports and Entertainment Empire from Trash, Grit, and Videotape ...
		Huizenga's winning combination of business strategies, management style, and vision is explained in this book?a fascinating testament to the power of true grit, seat-of-the-pants dealmaking, and sheer entrepreneurial genius.
		During his forays in the water business Wayne and his right hand man Steve Berrard scooped up 16 water companies in eight months, going from zero to the thirteenth largest bottled water company in the nation, which was sold to Clorox for a profit of $16 million within 3 years.
		Wayne is the ultimate deal maker, and you can see very clearly in these pages how one can reach the highest levels of business succes through extremely hard work, and single minded determination and drive.
	www.xmlwriter.net /books/viewbook/The_Making_of_a_Blockbuster:_How_Wayne_Huizenga_Built_a_Sports_and_Entertainment_Empire_from_Trash,_Grit,_and_Videotape-0471159034.html (1172 words)

	Boca Resorts, Inc. Website
		Huizenga has served as the Chairman of the Board of Extended Stay America, Inc. ("Extended Stay"), an owner and operator of extended stay lodging facilities.
		Huizenga has served as a director of NationsRent, Inc. ("NationsRent"), a developing national equipment rental company that markets products and services primarily to broad range of construction and industrial community.
		Huizenga co-funded Waste Management Inc., which he helped build into the world's largest integrated solid waste services company, and he served in various capacities, including President, Chief Operation Officer and a director from its inception until 1984.
	www.bocaresortsinc.com /wayne.htm (266 words)

	DAHEF - Hall of Fame - 1998 - Wayne Huizenga
		Wayne Huizenga is Chairman of Republic Industries, Inc., a diversified service company.
		Huizenga was Vice Chairman of the Board of Viacom, Inc. and Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Blockbuster Entertainment Corporation.
		Huizenga's great-grandfather emigrated to the U.S. from Groningen, the Netherlands, in 1893.
	www.dahef.org /HallOfFame/1998-Huizenga.html (403 words)

	Wayne Huizenga - BR Bullpen
		Wayne Huizenga was the first owner of the expansion Florida Marlins.
		He made his fortune in a wide variety of ventures, but is best known for Blockbuster Video.
		After failing to find government funding for a new baseball-only stadium to replace Pro Player Stadium in South Florida, Huizenga sold the team to commodities trader John Henry in 1999.
	www.baseball-reference.com /bullpen/Wayne_Huizenga (105 words)

	Reviews of 'The Making of a Blockbuster: How Wayne Huizenga Built a Sports and Entertainment Empire from Trash, Grit, ...
		And for Wayne's investment, $17.5 million, that grew to $600 million in 7 years.
		During his forays in the water business Wayne and his right hand man Steve Berrard scooped up 16 water companies in eight months, going from zero to the thirteenth largest bottled water company in the nation, which was sold to Clorox for a profit of $16 million within 3 years.
		Talking about Blockbuster Wayne would point out that the stores were paying for themselves in roughly 3 years from the cash flow.
	www.usingenglish.com /amazon/us/reviews/0471159034.html (533 words)

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