$5 Billion | Rank #523 Who is Jaran Chiaravanont Jaran, who started working in the family’s livestock feeds business in the 1950s, used to manage the Charoen Pokphand shop. Jaran is listed separately from his younger billionaire sibling Dhanin Chearavanont based on his 12.76% stake in the family’s vast …
$1 Billion | Rank #2578 Who is Chanchai Ruayrungruang Reignwood’s best-known assets are Reignwood Centre – an office, hotel and retail complex in Beijing, and the Pine Valley golf course, also in Beijing. Chanchai started the business in Thailand in 1984 and moved into China a dozen years later. …
$2 Billion | Rank #1579 Who is Lin Dingqiang & family Founded in Fujian Province in 1996, Radiance is now headquartered in Beijing. Coming from an average or middle class family, Lin Dingqiang & family is one those great persons who have stormed their way to the billionaires list …
$5 Billion | Rank #601 Who is Martin Haefner He inherited half of his father Walter’s stake in CA Technologies when he died in June 2012, then the world’s oldest billionaire at 101. He also inherited part of car dealer AMAG, which sells brands including Volkswagen, Audi, Bentley and …
$3 Billion | Rank #1196 Who is Sandeep Engineer A decade later, he latched on to making plastic pipes, convincing India’s plumbers about their superiority to metal pipes. Sales at his company, Astral (formerly Astral Poly Technik), got a boost when Bollywood actor Salman Khan became brand ambassador. The …
$2 Billion | Rank #1929 Who is Yuri Shefler Its best known brand is Stolichnaya vodka, which Shefler bought from state-owned VVO Soyuzplodoimport for $285,000 in 1997. Russia’s Supreme Court ruled the sale illegal in 2001, banning Shefler from selling the vodka inside its borders. In 2014, the Netherlands, …
$1 Billion | Rank #2448 Who is Yi Xianzhong & family Bio-Thera listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange’s Sci-Tech Innovation Board in February 2020. Yi graduated from the South China University of Technology, where he majored in computers and radio. He worked for a state-owned firm in Guangzhou after …
$1 Billion | Rank #2448 Who is Stelios Haji-Ioannou Stelios founded easyJet in 1995 after leaving his father’s company; his siblings Clelia and Polys both have large stakes in the airline. The family’s collective stake dropped below 16% for the first time in 2021 amid ongoing disagreements with easyJet’s …
$1 Billion | Rank #2190 Who is Othman Benjelloun & family His father was a shareholder in RMA, a Moroccan insurance company; Benjelloun built it into a leading insurer. Through his holding company FinanceCom, he has a stake in the Moroccan arm of French telecom firm Orange. He inaugurated …
