According to MSNBC, Red Bull sold 4.2 billion cans last year, including more than a billion in the States. “That represents a 7.9 percent increase over the year before, and revenues jumped 15.8 percent to $5.175 billion.â€
The drink has made Founder Dietrich Mateschitz one of the world’s richest men and the richest in his native Austria. According to MSNBC, “at the end of 2004, he had just 2,605 employees; in 2010, Red Bull employed 7,758 people — which works out to more than $667,000 in revenue per person.â€Â  … More