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Wayne Huizenga Wins Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur Of The Year

Monday May 30, 2005
Wayne Huizenga, the only person in history to have founded three Fortune 500 companies was this evening named the 2005 Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur Of The Year at an award ceremony in Monte Carlo last week. Huizenga is founder of the third largest U.S. waste disposal company, Republic Industries; the global leader in video entertainment, Blockbuster Entertainment; and the country's first and world's largest publicly-traded automotive dealership, AutoNation. He's also currently the owner of the Miami Dolphins football team.

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