Lithuania: Property developer most influential business person: polls

The founder and chairman of Lithuanian property developer Hanner, Arvydas Avulis, is the country’s most influential business person, according to two new polls, BNS reports. Avulis ranked highest in surveys of both the country’s professional elite and general public. Combining the two polls, 51.6% of respondents ranked Avulis first. Dainius Dundulis, founder and owner of the Norfa supermarket chain, was second with 33.1%, and Vidmantas Janulevicius, president of the Lithuanian Confederation of Industrialists (LPK) was third with 20.6%.