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Line 34: ===Metals business=== In the early 1990s, the brothers invested in the Russian metals market.<ref name=russia>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2004/jun/27/russia |title=Pack up your roubles ...|work=[[The Guardian]] |author=Robinson, James |date=27 June 2004 |access-date=13 November 2021}}</ref> When Russian aluminum [[smelter]]s were incapacitated by debt, Reuben's company [[Trans-World Group|Trans In 1997, Russia's Interior Minister [[Anatoly Kulikov]] linked both the [[Michael Cherney|Cherney]] brothers and Reuben brothers to the [[Izmaylovskaya gang|Izmaylovskaya mafia]] led by [[:ru:Малевский, Антон Викторович|Anton Malevsky]] in Israel. In March 1998, [[Boris Yeltsin]] replaced Kulikov as minister.<ref name=BeharFortune/> In 2008, the Reuben brothers returned to the commodity business, expanding their mining interests with a portfolio of mines in ===Present activities=== Line 50: ====Aldergate Investments==== {{BLP The Reuben Brothers invested in luxury leisure group [[Belmond (company)|Belmond Ltd]] in 2007, and sold their share in 2019 for £233 million.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hodgson |first=Joanna |date=2019-01-16 |title=Payday for Reuben brothers after selling out of Belmond |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/business/payday-for-reuben-brothers-after-selling-out-of-belmond-a4040556.html |access-date=2023-01-16 |website=Evening Standard |language=en}}</ref> Other holdings include [[Travelodge Hotels]]; D2 Jeans and [[Blue Inc]] clothing retailers, with retailer [[Sir Stuart Rose]]; Luup and [[Metro Bank (UK)|Metro Bank]]; The Wellington Pub Company, the largest free-of-tie pub estate in the UK with approximately 850 tenanted pubs; Global Switch, the carrier data centre provider in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region; and a joint venture with [[British Marine]], that in 2014 had eight vessels with plans to double the fleet size.<ref name="yahoo2014"/>{{dead link|date=November 2021}} Line 108: | align="right" | $4.50 {{increase}} |- | 2008<ref name="strl2008">{{cite news |url=http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/specials/rich_list/article3822711.ece |archive-url=https://archive.today/20080518033830/http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/specials/rich_list/article3822711.ece |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 May 2008 |title=Rich List reveals wealthy reap profits under Labour |work=[[The Sunday Times]] |date=27 April 2008 |editor1=Beresford, Philip |editor1-link=Philip Beresford|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name="Forbes-2008">{{cite news |url=https://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/10/billionaires08_David-Simon-Reuben_IWRB.html |title=#178 David & Simon Reuben |work=[[Forbes]] |date=5 March 2008 |access-date=9 June 2015 }}{{failed verification|date=November 2021}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=November 2021}} | align="center" | {{nts|10}} {{decrease}} | align="right" | £4.30 {{increase}} Line 114: | align="right" | $5.50 {{increase}} |- | 2009<ref name="strl2009">{{cite news|url-access=subscription |url=http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/specials/rich_list/article6169048.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090502101049/http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/specials/rich_list/article6169048.ece |url-status=dead |archive-date=2 May 2009 |title=Sunday Times Rich List: Bonfire of the billionaires wipes out £155bn fortune |work=[[The Sunday Times]] |date=26 April 2009 |editor1=Beresford, Philip |editor1-link=Philip Beresford }}</ref><ref name="Forbes-2009">{{cite news |url=https://www.forbes.com/lists/2009/10/billionaires-2009-richest-people_David-Simon-Reuben_IWRB.html |title=#98 David & Simon Reuben |work=[[Forbes]] |date=11 March 2009 |access-date=9 June 2015 |archive-date=9 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309195529/http://www.forbes.com/lists/2009/10/billionaires-2009-richest-people_David-Simon-Reuben_IWRB.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> | align="center" | {{nts|9}} {{increase}} | align="right" | £2.50 {{decrease}} Line 120: | align="right" | $5.00 {{decrease}} |- | 2010<ref name=Rubble>{{cite news |url=http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/specials/rich_list/article7107182.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611214558/http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/specials/rich_list/article7107182.ece |url-status=dead |archive-date=11 June 2011 |title=The Sunday Times Rich List 2010: Rising from the rubble |work=[[The Sunday Times]] |date=25 April 2010 }}</ref><ref name="Forbes-2010">{{cite news |url=https://www.forbes.com/lists/2010/10/billionaires-2010_David-Simon-Reuben_IWRB.html |title=#93 David & Simon Reuben |work=[[Forbes]] |date=10 March 2010 |access-date=9 June 2015 }}{{failed verification|date=November 2021}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=November 2021}} | align="center" | {{nts|5}} {{increase}} | align="right" | £5.53 {{increase}} |