In addition to mining industry, BXR Group also owns assets in the field of railway freight transport (AWT), immovable properties (RPG Real Estate or Tower Group), and many others. Furthermore, Bakala is active in media (he holds the majority shares of the publishing house Economia since 2008) and philanthropy (he stands behind Zdenek Bakala Foundation, the Václav Havel Library, and the DOX Centre). Thanks to his full involvement in a wide range of fields, from mining to media, across several European countries, he was ranked by Forbes as the 595th planet’s richest person in March 2011. As for his private life, he is married with the former Miss Czechoslovakia Michaela Malacova, who runs beauty pageants in the Czech Republic. They have three children together.