Afterwards, he was involved in Israeli shipping for a time but headed over to the United States to pursue business opportunities in the s, with the result that he went on to co-found both Norwegian Cruise Lines and Carnival Cruise Lines. It is interesting to note that Ted Arison had two children with his first wife Mina Wasserman.
One is Micky Arison, while the other is Shari Arison. Currently, Shari Arison is the owner of the Arison Group, which oversees both businesses and philanthropic organizations. As such, she is the wealthiest woman in Israel. In any case, Arison was born in Tel Aviv, which is one of the most important cities in Israel. It is interesting to note that Tel Aviv started out as a new neighborhood founded outside of the city of Jaffa by Jewish immigrants during the First Aliyah.
However, Tel Aviv has seen so much growth since that time that the two cities have been merged into what is called Tel Aviv-Yafo, which is a name meant to preserve something of its historical roots.
After all, Yafo is just the Hebrew version of Jaffa. With that said, Arison grew up in the United States, seeing as how his father brought the entire family with him when he went to said country for the sake of pursuing business opportunities. In short, what happened was that the state of Florida had no NBA team in the s, meaning that a number of Floridian cities made an attempt to secure a NBA franchise when the chance came up.
This happened because the team had some serious issues at that point in time, with examples ranging from poor performance on the basketball court to a serious lack of name recognition.
In he acquired most of the controlling shares in Bank Hapoalim, the biggest bank in Israel. His death occurred in the year of She married to Ted Arison and later was widowed after his death.
She is not the biological mother of Micky Arison. Marlyn Arison is an arts education advocate and a philanthropist. In , she wrote a book about Va Gogh and impressionism. Shari Arison was born in in New York City. In , she and her then husband Ofer Glazer returned to Israel. Shari Arison has been married and divorced three times. Her first husband was Jose Antonio Sueiras, an officer on one of the ships owned by her father, together they had three children. Arison was forced to slash cruise prices in the fourth quarter of by approximately 3 percent.
According to one leisure-industry analyst, this was the largest percentage decline for the company in nearly two decades. Furthermore, Arison admitted that his company had made a marketing mistake when it consolidated its high-end companies Seabourn and Cunard in , thus blurring the brands. Problems were compounded that same year when faulty engines caused some ships to go adrift and several fires occurred; Arison believes that these mishaps also turned away potential customers.
Carnival and the entire cruise industry was dealt another blow after the terrorist attacks of September 11, , in New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D. Although the attacks primarily affected the airline industry, people cut back in general on travel plans to go anywhere that was a potential terrorist target, including cruise ships.
In addition, insurance costs for Carnival and other cruise lines soared. In the two months following September 11, the company's advance bookings for cruises dropped dramatically because of a significant slowdown in travel. Although Carnival reported flat first-quarter earnings in , the earnings were viewed as a rebound by industry analysts, because they greatly exceeded early expectations and were not the sharp decline in earnings that many had predicted.
Federal Trade Commission and the European Commission begun antitrust investigations. At issue was the belief that the company's combined 43 percent global market share after the acquisition would allow it to control prices. He also said, "But it's also a very difficult time for the leisure travel, so taking on a huge capacity is exciting and challenging at the same time" April Arison did not rest on his laurels; he continued to expand the company's fleet, with several new Carnival ships and Cunard's Queen Mary 2 entering service in At , tons, the Queen Mary 2 was the world's largest ocean liner.
Industry analysts have pointed to many reasons for Arison's success in guiding Carnival to the top of the cruise-line business. They noted that his father was a good teacher and felt confident enough in his son to effectively delegate most of the company's daily operations to him by Arison has been known for his hands-on, open-door management style. Many of his employees even call him "Micky. He went on to note, "My management style is not to get in their way" April Another aspect of Arison's success was his keen attention to company marketing including glitzy television ads and growth priorities.
As noted by Jill Jordan Sieder in U. He applied that philosophy even to the Miami Heat professional basketball team when he took over his family's interests in the team in He hired a successful and expensive coach, Pat Riley, and pushed for a new, ritzy arena to showcase the team.
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