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List Of British Billionaires By Net Worth
This is a list of British billionaires by net worth, based on an annual assessment of wealth and assets compiled by '' Bloomberg'', '' The Sunday Times,'' and by '' Forbes'' magazine. The lists are incomplete. 2020 British billionaire list by ''Bloomberg'' Billionaires Index 2019 British billionaire list by ''The Sunday Times'' 2017 British billionaires list by ''Forbes'' magazine See also * Forbes list of billionaires * List of countries by the number of billionaires * Sunday Times Rich List References {{Forbes Magazine Lists British * Net worth Net worth is the value of all the non-financial and financial assets owned by an individual or institution minus the value of all its outstanding liabilities. Since financial assets minus outstanding liabilities equal net financial assets, net ... Worth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Tom Morris (businessman)
Thomas Joseph Morris (born February 1954) is a British billionaire businessman and the founder of retail chain Home Bargains. According to the ''Sunday Times Rich List'' in May 2021, Morris and his family are worth £4.36 billion. Early life Thomas Joseph Morris was born in February 1954. He is the son of a shopkeeper in Liverpool's Scotland Road, and one of seven children of Tom and Veronica Morris.Andrew Bounds,A discounter's stores stack up, ''Financial Times'', 17 March 2009 The Morris family have been involved in retailing for three generations. He received a degree in engineering. Career Morris started the Liverpool-based discount retail chain Home Bargains in 1976 in Old Swan,Andrew Bounds,Discount retailer TJ Morris breaks through £1bn sales barrier, ''Financial Times'', 14 October 2013 when he was 21 years old. The chain, during the time originally named "Home and Bargain" retails a diverse range of goods, including health and beauty products, groceries and toys. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Green
Sir Philip Nigel Ross Green (born 15 March 1952) is a British businessman who was the chairman of the retail company the Arcadia Group. He owned the high street clothing retailers Topshop, Topman and Miss Selfridge from 2002 to 2020. As of May 2021, his net worth was estimated at £910 million. Green was the chairman and chief executive of Amber Day from 1988 to 1992. In 1999, he acquired Sears plc. He bought British Home Stores (BHS) for £200 million in 2000, and subsequently spent £840 million to acquire the Arcadia Group in 2002. Arcadia became a private company and was delisted from the London Stock Exchange.Arcadia History He unsuccessfully sought to acquire in 1999 and 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David And Frederick Barclay
Sir David Rowat Barclay (27 October 1934 – 10 January 2021) and Sir Frederick Hugh Barclay (born 27 October 1934), commonly referred to as the "Barclay Brothers" or "Barclay Twins", were British billionaires. They were identical twin brothers and, up until the death of David in 2021, had joint business interests primarily in media, retail and property. ''The Sunday Times'' Rich List of 2020 estimated their wealth at £7 billion. They earned a reputation for avoiding publicity and have often been described as reclusive. David's son, Aidan, manages their UK businesses. Their businesses have been accused of tax avoidance, by placing assets under ownership of companies registered abroad and controlled through trusts. Their Press Holdings company owns ''Apollo'' and ''The Spectator'' magazines and, through a wholly owned subsidiary (Press Acquisitions Limited), they also own Telegraph Group Limited, parent company of ''The Daily Telegraph'' and ''The Sunday Telegraph''. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Schroder
Bruno Lionel Schroder (17 January 1933 – 20 February 2019) was a British banker and billionaire and a significant landowner in Scotland. He was a direct descendant of Johann Heinrich Schröder, co-founder of financial institution Schroders, and the longest serving non-executive board member of any company on the London FTSE 100. ''Forbes'' magazine estimated Schroder's family wealth at US$6.2 billion in August 2018. Schroder owned the 17,500 acre Dunlossit Estate on the island of Islay in Scotland's Inner Hebrides.Christine Seib. "Business big shot Bruno Schroder." ''The Times'', London, 24 May 2007: pg 55. Early life and education He was born on 17 January 1933, and educated at Eton, University of Tours, the School of Languages Hamburg, University College, Oxford, and Harvard Business School. Schroder received an honorary doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 2012. Career Schroder joined the commercial banking and corporate finance division of J. Henry Schroder Wagg & C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian And Richard Livingstone
London & Regional Properties (L&R) is a private real estate and leisure investment firm based in London, United Kingdom. It is one of the largest privately held principal investors in Europe, performing private equity style investments in direct property and asset-backed operating businesses. L&R was founded in 1987 by billionaire brothers Richard Livingstone, a chartered surveyor, and Ian, a former optometrist, who are described by the ''Irish Independent'' as "secretive". The firm's AuM is in the upwards of £9 billion. L&R has business interests in the United Kingdom, Europe, and the AmericasLondon & Regional Properties Ltd ''''. Retrieved 15 July 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Fridman
Mikhail Maratovich Fridman (also transliterated Mikhail Friedman; russian: Михаил Маратович Фридман; he, מיכאיל פרידמן; born 21 April 1964) is a Ukrainian-born, Russian–Israeli businessman, billionaire, and oligarch. He is one of the co-founders of Alfa-Group, a multinational Russian conglomerate. According to ''Forbes'', he was the seventh-richest Russian as of 2017. (Moved to 11th place in 2020.) In May 2017, he was also ranked as Russia's most important businessman by ''bne IntelliNews''. In August 2022, Fridman had a net worth of $11.2 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. In 1991 he co-founded Alfa-Bank, one of the largest private banks in Russia. After serving as CEO of TNK-BP, the 50/50 TNK-BP joint venture, for nine years, in 2013 he sold his stake in the company and co-founded the international investment company LetterOne (L1). Until 2022 Fridman was chairman of the supervisory board of Alfa Group Consortium, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Abramovich
Roman Arkadyevich Abramovich (, ; he, רומן ארקדיביץ' אברמוביץ'; born 24 October 1966) is a Russian Russian oligarchs, oligarch and politician. He is the former owner of Chelsea F.C., Chelsea, a Premier League football club in London, England, and is the primary owner of the private investment company Millhouse LLC. He has Russian, Israeli and Portuguese citizenship. He was formerly Governor of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug from 2000 to 2008. According to ''Forbes (magazine), Forbes'', Abramovich's net worth was 14.5 billion in 2021, making him the List of Israelis by net worth, second-richest person in Israel, the List of Russian people by net worth, eleventh-richest in Russia and the List of Portuguese by net worth, richest person in Portugal. Abramovich enriched himself in the years following the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, obtaining Russian state-owned assets at prices far below market value in Russia's controversial Loans for shares sche ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alisher Usmanov
Alisher Burkhanovich Usmanov (russian: Алишер Бурханович Усманов; born 9 September 1953) is an Uzbek-born Russian businessman and oligarch. By 2022, Usmanov had an estimated net worth of $19.5 billion and was among the world's 100 wealthiest people. Usmanov made his wealth after the collapse of the Soviet Union, through metal and mining operations, and investments. He is the majority shareholder of Metalloinvest, a Russian industrial conglomerate, which consolidated in 2006 JSC Metalloinvest's assets (Mikhailovsky GOK and Ural Steel) with those of Gazmetall JSC (Lebedinsky GOK and the Oskol Electrometallurgical Plant). He owns the Kommersant publishing house. He is also a co-owner of Russia's second-largest mobile telephone operator, MegaFon, and owner of Udokan copper which develops one of the largest copper deposits in the world. Usmanov eventually teamed up with Yuri Milner and became the largest investor of Digital Sky Technologies ("DST"). On 16 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlene De Carvalho-Heineken
Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken (born 30 June 1954) is a Dutch billionaire businesswoman, and the owner of a 25% controlling interest in the world's second-largest brewer, Heineken N.V. She is the richest person in the Netherlands, with a net worth of $16.7 billion as of May 2021, according to the Forbes billionaires list. Early life Charlene Heineken was born on 30 June 1954, the daughter of Freddy Heineken, a Dutch industrialist, and Lucille Cummins, an American from a Kentucky family of bourbon whiskey distillers. She was educated at Rijnlands Lyceum Wassenaar, followed by a law degree from Leiden University. Career She owns a 25% controlling stake in Dutch brewer Heineken, of which she is also an executive director. The biannual Heineken Prize for cognitive science is named after her. Personal life She is married to Michel de Carvalho, a financier and director of Citigroup, whom she met on a ski holiday in St. Moritz, Switzerland. He is a member of the supervisory board o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorn Rausing
The Jindalee Operational Radar Network (JORN) is an over-the-horizon radar (OHR) network that can monitor air and sea movements across . It has a normal operating range of to . It is used in the defence of Australia, and can also monitor maritime operations, wave heights and wind directions. JORN's main ground stations comprise a control centre, known as the JORN Coordination Centre (JCC), at RAAF Base Edinburgh in South Australia and three transmission stations: Radar 1 near Longreach, Queensland, Radar 2 near Laverton, Western Australia and Radar 3 near Alice Springs, Northern Territory. History The roots of the JORN can be traced back to post World War II experiments in the United States and a series of Australian experiments at DSTO Edinburgh, South Australia beginning in the early 1950s. In 1969, The Technical Cooperation Program membership and papers by John Strath prompted development of a core "Over the Horizon" radar project. From July 1970 a study was undertaken ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirsten Rausing
Kirsten Elisbet Rausing, DL (born 6 June 1952) is a Swedish businesswoman, who owns a third of the holding company Tetra Laval and sits on the company board alongside other members of her family. She was listed as the 150th richest individual in the world in the Forbes 2020 list of The World's Billionaires. Early life Born in Lund, Sweden, Rausing is the eldest child of Swedish industrialist Gad Rausing (1922–2000)Nick Rav"Gad Rausing, 77, Swedish Innovator of Beverage Containers" ''The New York Times'', 8 February 2000, retrieved 16 November 2011 and his wife Birgit (née Mayne). She is the granddaughter of Ruben Rausing (1895–1983) who was the founder of the liquid food packaging company Tetra Pak. Her father bought out the 50% share in the company from his brother Hans Rausing in 1995, leaving her side of the family as sole remaining owner of Tetra Pak. She is the granddaughter of Swedish landscape painter Henry Mayne (1891–1975). Career With her brothers Jörn R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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