John Van Lieshout

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John Van Lieshout
Born1946 (age 78–79)
Netherlands
Nationality Australian
OccupationProperty developer
Children3

John Van Lieshout (born 1946) is an Australian billionaire, the founder and former owner of the Amart Furniture store chain. [1]

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Early life

Born in the Netherlands in 1946, [2] Van Lieshout is one of 13 children of Karel van Lieshout, a plasterer, and his wife, Anna, who emigrated to Australia in 1960, initially processed at Brisbane's Wacol Migrant Camp. [3]

Van Lieshout has a high school diploma. [1]

Career

Van Lieshout is the founder and former owner of the Super A-Mart furniture store chain. [1] He sold Super A-Mart in 2006 for A$500 million, and moved into property development. [4] Through his Unison Projects Group, he has acquired 600 housing blocks and 200 townhouses in the Brisbane area. [4]

Other members of the family have founded businesses, and the family is known in Australia as the "kings and queens of furniture", having founded chains including Empire Office Furniture, Super A-Mart, BW Coles, Chevron and the Woolstore. [3]

Personal life

Van Lieshout is married with three children and lives in Brisbane, Queensland. [1] [ unreliable source? ]

Net worth

In 2014, Queensland's Sunday Mail named Van Lieshout as the richest person in Queensland, by net worth. [5] However, as of May 2025, the Financial Review in the 2025 Rich List had assessed Van Lieshout's net worth as A$3.02  billion and Clive Palmer was the richest person in the state, with a net worth of A$20.12 billion. [6]

Year Financial Review
Rich List 		Forbes
Australia's 50 Richest
Rank Net worth (A$)Rank Net worth (US$)
2016 [7] 28Decrease2.svg$970 million Decrease2.svg
2017 [8] [9] [10] $1.72  billion
2018 [11] 33Increase2.svg$1.92 billion Increase2.svg
2019 [12] [13] 29Increase2.svg$2.51 billion Increase2.svg31Decrease2.svg$1.40 billion Increase2.svg
2020 [14] 45Decrease2.svg$2.03 billion Decrease2.svg
2021 [15] 43Increase2.svg$2.49 billion Increase2.svg
202241Increase2.svg$2.70 billion Increase2.svg
2023 [16] 41Steady2.svg$2.72 billion Increase2.svg
2024 [17] 44Decrease2.svg$2.92 billion Increase2.svg
2025 [6] 51Decrease2.svg$3.02 billion Increase2.svg
Legend
Icon Description
Steady2.svgHas not changed from the previous year
Increase2.svgHas increased from the previous year
Decrease2.svgHas decreased from the previous year

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "John Van Lieshout". Forbes.com. 1 January 1970. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
  2. ↑ "John Andrew van Lieshout | Wealth-X". Ledburyresearch.com. 19 April 2017. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
  3. 1 2 "Sitting Pretty: Van Lieshout family builds furniture empire". Courier-Mail . Queensland.
  4. 1 2 "John Van Lieshout's house and land foray paying off". The Australian . 4 May 2015. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
  5. ↑ Passmore, Daryl (13 September 2014). "The Sunday Mail Queensland's Top 150 Rich List: John Van Lieshout is new No. 1". The Sunday Mail . Queensland. Retrieved 30 September 2019.
  6. 1 2 Redrup, Yolanda (30 May 2025). "Australia's wealthiest 200 revealed, fortunes blow past $667b" . Australian Financial Review . Retrieved 31 May 2025.
  7. ↑ "Gina Rinehart Loses Her No. 1 Spot". Forbes Asia. 27 January 2016. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
  8. ↑ Stensholt, John, ed. (25 May 2017). "Financial Review Rich List 2017". The Australian Financial Review . Retrieved 8 June 2017.
  9. ↑ Mayne, Stephen (26 May 2017). "Mayne's take: The top 25 Australian billionaires, as claimed by Fairfax". Crikey . Private Media. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  10. ↑ "Australia's Richest 2017: Country's Wealthiest Continue Mining For Dollars". Forbes Asia. 1 November 2017. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
  11. ↑ Stensholt, John, ed. (25 May 2018). "2018 AFR Rich List: Who are Australia's richest people?". The Australian Financial Review . Retrieved 26 May 2018.
  12. ↑ Bailey, Michael (30 May 2019). "Australia's 200 richest people revealed". The Australian Financial Review . Nine Publishing. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
  13. ↑ "2019 Australia's 50 Richest". Forbes Asia. January 2019. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
  14. ↑ Bailey, Michael; Sprague, Julie-anne (30 October 2020). "The full list: Australia's wealthiest 200 revealed" . The Australian Financial Review . Nine Publishing. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
  15. ↑ Bailey, Michael; Sprague, Julie-anne (27 May 2021). "The 200 richest people in Australia revealed". Australian Financial Review . Retrieved 28 May 2021.
  16. ↑ Bailey, Michael; Sprague, Julie-anne (26 May 2023). "The 200 richest people in Australia revealed". Australian Financial Review . Retrieved 6 June 2023.
  17. ↑ Redrup, Yolanda; Bailey, Michael (30 May 2024). "Australia's wealthiest 200 now control $625b". Australian Financial Review . Retrieved 18 September 2024.
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