It was a short step from there to gaining control over a vast industrial empire.

Today he made me dc-facto chairman of his industrial empire.

It is the largest commercial and industrial empire in China, controlling much of China's exports.

Today he controls one of the nation's largest privately held industrial empires, and his personal fortune is estimated to be $5.9 billion.

I have what the newspapers call an industrial empire.

Since he took over the company in 1981, he has treated it more as a collection of assets than an industrial empire.

My husband and I do- voted years to the building of an industrial empire.

This was the start of a complete range of ventures which in the long term would create an industrial empire.

He studies in England, while his guardian takes care of his late father's industrial empire.

Trianon is one of the biggest industrial empires in France.