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Magnús Þorsteinsson is a businessman and was chairman of now defunct Avion Group. He was a high profile investor and entrepreneur with interests in aviation and financial services. ==Beverage businessman in Saint Petersburg== Magnús began his investments in St. Petersburg together with Björgólfur Guðmundsson and Björgólfur Thor Björgólfsson. The Icelandic businessmen, together with Russian partners, founded a bottling company ''Baltic Bottling Plant'', which was sold to Pepsi. They moved to brewing and founded a brewing company ''Bravo International'' OOO in August 1996 which became ''Bravo International'' JSC in December 1997.〔 ''Bravo Brewery'' became a success on the premium beer Botchkarov. Danish journalists noted that the ''Committee on External Economic Relations'' in the Mayor's office was responsible for foreigners in Saint Petersburg. The committee's chairman was Vladimir Putin.〔. Another copy: . An automatic translation: 〕 In 2005 an article in The Guardian wondered where the Icelandic money comes from and noted that in the 1990s these Icelandic businessmen "were not only ploughing money into the country but doing it in the city regarded as the Russian mafia capital. That investment was being made in the drinks sector, seen by the mafia as the industry of choice." Competitors in the Saint Petersburg brewing market faced problems. Ilya Weismann, deputy director of a competing beverage company ''Baltic'', was assassinated on January 10, 2000. Then ''Baltic'' director general Aslanbek Chochiev was assassinated. One competing Saint Petersburg brewery burned to the ground.〔〔 Bravo Brewery became the fastest growing brewery in Russia. Heineken bought the brewery for $400m in 2002.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Magnús Þorsteinsson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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