List Of Wealthiest Families
Brothers Theo and Karl Albrecht created the discount supermarket Aldi, Bloomberg reported. Today, there are more than 10,000 stores between the two branches, Aldi Nord and Aldi Sud. Theo also invested in Trader Joe's, transforming it into a chain with more than 350 stores. The Ferrero fortune dates back to 1940s Italy, when Michele Ferrero created what is now known as Nutella.
The family was once ranked as the wealthiest family by Fortune Magazine in 1988, but later it was surpassed by Walton Family. The company was founded by Franklin Clarence Mars as he invented the Milky Way Bar in 1923. The business was handed over to his grandson and granddaughter after the death of his son Forrest Mars.
Computer scientist Sergey Brin co-founded Google with Larry Page back in 1998, and is currently the president of the search engine's parent company Alphabet Inc. At the time of writing, his net worth stands at $119.7 billion (£87.6bn). Brin's ex-wife Anne Wojcicki, with whom he has two children, is the co-founder and CEO of personal genomics firm 23andMe, and is independently estimated to be worth over $500 million (£361m). After the authorities shut down his profitable fireworks factory in World War II, entrepreneur Oei Wie Gwan founded clove cigarette firm Djarum. Today, the brothers have a combined fortune of $38.8 billion (£28bn). Retail royalty, the Mulliez family has been involved in the industry since the 19th century when patriarch Louis Mulliez-Lestienne founded clothing chain Phildar in the northern French city of Roubaix.
Walmart is the world’s largest retailer, one of the world’s largest businesses in terms of yearly revenue, and the world’s largest private employer, with little over 2.2 million employees. Alice Walton also has a net worth of $60.1 billion, making her the world’s 14th wealthiest person and the richest woman. Late brothers Karl and Theo Albrecht founded Aldi in 1946 in Essen. The supermarket chain split into two different entities in 1960, Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd, after the siblings disagreed over whether to stock cigarettes. Both groups went on to expand internationally, and Aldi Nord snapped up US chain Trader Joe's in 1979.
The German pharmaceutical company, Boehringer Ingelheim was founded in 1885 by Albert Boehringer. One of the richest families in real estate, the Goldman clan owns more than 700 properties across the country as well as stakes in the World Trade Center developments in lower Manhattan, says Forbes. The Ambani family is the wealthiest family of India and is the owner of Asia’s biggest conglomerate Reliance Industries. Reliance was founded by Dhirubhai Ambani in 1957, and the company oversees refining, petrochemicals, oil, gas, and textiles, and both brothers have their own telecommunication company. Mukesh Ambani has the biggest telecommunication company, Jio of India, and Ani’s elder son, Anmol, is also the executive director of Reliance Capital.
The fashion empire Kering now owns brands including Stella McCartney, Saint Laurent and Alexander McQueen, and is big dawg079 run by Pinault's son François-Henri, who is married to Hollywood actor Salma Hayek. Brothers Raymond and Thomas Kwok are property magnates with an empire that includes real estate in Hong Kong and China. Their late father Kwok Tak-Seng created Sun Hung Kai Properties in 1972. Brother Walter, who died in October 2018, was at the helm from 1990 to 2008, then Thomas and Raymond assumed the running of the firm, with their mother Kwong Siu-hing as key shareholder. However, Thomas was jailed for five years in 2014 on corruption charges and was only released in early 2019. Samuel Curtis (S.C.) Johnson started out with a flooring company in 1886, before developing his famous floor wax.
Ballmer has been married to Connie Snyder since 1990 and the couple are committed philanthropists. When Forrest Mars Sr. died in 1991, the confectionery tycoon bequeathed Mars, Inc., the candy and pet foods empire his father founded in 1911, to his three children Jacqueline , Forrest Mars Jr. and John Mars. The Mars siblings have complete control over the company, which has a plethora of popular brands from Snickers and M&Ms to Whiskas and Dolmio.
If you’re interested in learning more about the world’s wealthiest families, here’s a list of 12 of them. FOX Business previously reported that the wealth of the Koch family began with Fred Koch’s oil firm and was split between his four sons before two sons left in the 1980s. Charles and David Koch were the two sons who stayed, and today, Charles Koch serves as the chairman of the board and CEO. David Koch, who also maintained a position of leadership until 2018, died in August 2019.
Kjeld’s daughter Agnete is an Olympic equestrian, and son Thomas Kirk is being groomed to take over the business. The 25 richest families in the world are now worth over $1 trillion — more than the total value of Apple or the entire GDP of Indonesia, according to a report. Today, sons Dan and Bubba Cathy lead and own the fast food franchise, which has more than 2,500 outlets in the U.S.
Top 10 richest families of Turkey 4- Erol Sabancı, Sabancı Holding. The Al Saud royal family of Saudi Arabia makes its debut among the world’s wealthiest at $100 billion. Deriving the bulk of its estimated $150 billion (£109.8bn) fortune from oil, the House of Nahyan has been the reigning royal family of Abu Dhabi since 1793.