Sunday Times Rich List 2010

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The Sunday Times Rich List 2010 was published on 25 April 2010. [1] [2]

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Since 1989 the UK national Sunday newspaper The Sunday Times has published an annual magazine supplement to the newspaper called the Sunday Times Rich List . The list is based on an estimate of the minimum wealth of the richest 1,000 people or families in the United Kingdom as of January of that year, and is compiled by Philip Beresford. A separate section lists the 250 richest Irish, including both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

As in previous years, the Rich List was widely previewed in the UK media and extensively covered on the day of its publication. [3] [4] The top four places in the Rich List were unchanged from the previous year. [2]

Among the most notable changes were a rise in the collective wealth of the Rich List by almost a third over the previous year — the largest annual increase up to that point in the then 22-year history of the List. [3]

Notable changes in rankings include: Uzbek-Russian Alisher Usmanov, up to 6th from 18th; Canadian Galen Weston and family, rising to 7th from 47th; and Indian Anil Agarwal, moving to 10th from 70th. In addition, one new entry to the list, Chinese property tycoon Joseph Lau, immediately landed just outside the top 10, coming in at 12th. [2]

Top 12 fortunes

2010 [2] NameCitizenshipSource of wealth2009 [5]
Rank Net worth
£ bn
RankNet worth
£ bn
1 Steady2.svg£22.45 Increase2.svg Lakshmi Mittal and familyFlag of India.svg  India Steel1£10.80
2 Steady2.svg£7.40 Increase2.svg Roman Abramovich Flag of Russia.svg  Russia Oil, industry, owner of Chelsea FC 2£7.00
3 Steady2.svg£6.75 Increase2.svg The Duke of Westminster Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Property3£6.50
4 Steady2.svg£5.95 Increase2.svg Ernesto and Kirsty Bertarelli Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland & Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Pharmaceuticals4£5.00
5 Increase2.svg£5.53 Increase2.svg David and Simon Reuben Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Property9£2.50
6Increase2.svg£4.70 Increase2.svg Alisher Usmanov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia Steel, mining18£1.50
7Increase2.svg£4.50 Increase2.svg Galen Weston, George Weston and familyFlag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada Retailing (George Weston Limited)47£0.90
8 Decrease2.svg£4.40 Increase2.svg Charlene Carvalho and Michel CarvalhoFlag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands [6] Inheritance, banking, brewing (Heineken)7£2.96
9 Decrease2.svg£4.11 Increase2.svg Sir Philip Green and Lady GreenFlag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Retailing6£3.83
10 Increase2.svg£4.10 Increase2.svg Anil Agarwal Flag of India.svg  India Mining70£0.60
11 Decrease2.svg£4.00 Steady2.svg Hans Rausing and familyFlag of Sweden.svg  Sweden Packaging5£4.00
12 Increase2.svg£3.83 Increase2.svg Joseph Lau Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China Propertyn/anot listed

See also

References

  1. Beresford, Philip (25 April 2010). "The Sunday Times Rich List 2010: Rising from the rubble". The Sunday Times . Archived from the original on June 11, 2011.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Beresford, Philip, ed. (25 April 2010). "2010 Rich List". The Sunday Times . Archived from the original on December 31, 2010. Retrieved June 11, 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Sunday Times Rich List 2010: Britain's richest see wealth rise by one third". The Daily Telegraph . 24 April 2010.
  4. "Super-rich become wealthier again, Sunday Times says". BBC News . 24 April 2010.
  5. Beresford, Philip, ed. (25 April 2010). "2009 Rich List". The Sunday Times . Archived from the original on December 31, 2010. Retrieved June 11, 2016.
  6. Fontevecchia, Augustino. "Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken" . Forbes . Retrieved 9 October 2015.