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Former Miss UK on top of the Birmingham Post Rich List Jan 21 2009

Kirsty Bertarelli, a former Miss UK from Stone in Staffordshire, heads this year’s Birmingham Post Rich List of the Midlands’ 50 wealthiest people with a family fortune estimated at £5.5billion.Read

Former Miss UK on top of the Birmingham Post Rich List Jan 21 2009

Kirsty Bertarelli, a former Miss UK from Stone in Staffordshire, heads this year’s Birmingham Post Rich List of the Midlands’ 50 wealthiest people with a family fortune estimated at £5.5billion.Read

1. (-) Kirsty Bertarelli £5.5bn (-) Jan 20 2009

There are several ways of achieving the wealth needed to get included in the Birmingham Post Rich List. Some do it through inheritance, some through entrepreneurship, and some through the good fortune of being in the right place at the right timeRead

2. (4) Sir Anthony Bamford £1.8bn (£1.2bn) Jan 20 2009

A year’s a long time in digger manufacturing, someone might have said. Well, probably not, but if they had they would have been right.Read

3. (1) John Caudwell £1.65bn (£1.65bn) Jan 20 2009

John Caudwell has been at the top of the Birmingham Post Rich List for some years now, but this year he has been overtaken and pushed down to third place.Read

4. (2) Lord Paul of Marylebone and Family £1.5bn (£1.5bn) Jan 20 2009

Lord Paul’s Caparo Group aims to be the biggest automotive technology company in India. It’s well on the way.Read

5. (3) Viscount Portman and Family £1.35bn (£1.45bn) Jan 20 2009

Viscount Portman’s 110-acre Central London estate has a new chief executive, but its improvement plans continue apace.Read

6. (5) Randy Lerner £800m (£800m) Jan 20 2009

You heard it here first. In the 2008 Birmingham Post Rich List we gave you the exclusive news that Brooklyn-born Aston Villa owner Randy Lerner was buying a house near Birmingham.Read

7. (6) Felix Dennis £750m (£750m) Jan 20 2009

Felix Dennis has been on tour. His nationwide poetry tour entitled “Did I Mention the Free Wine” took up much of the back end of last year, and knowing Felix Dennis’s love of fine French wine, the free wine was probably pretty good.Read

8. (7) David Wilson and Family £730m (£725m) Jan 20 2009

David Wilson must be thinking he got out of the house-building business in the nick of time. By good fortune or good judgement – it matters not – he disposed of his building interests at the top of the market.Read

9. (8) John Bloor £640m (£650m) Jan 20 2009

Housebuilders are coming up with some ingenious ways of keeping the sluggish property market on the move and motorcycles-to-houses millionaire John Bloor’s Bloor Homes is no exception.Read

10. (11) Jorgen Philip-Sorensen £630m (£600m) Jan 20 2009

Jorgen Philip-Sorensen’s Ecover Group has been recognised by the United Nations Environmental Programme for its outstanding practical contributions to the preservation and improvement of the environment.Read

11. (10) Robert Edmiston £630m (£630m) Jan 20 2009

Robert Edmiston believes that things are difficult enough for small businesses, without the ever growing burden of red tape and regulation dragging them down.Read

12. (9) Jacques Gaston Murray £625m (£640m) Jan 20 2009

Jacques Gaston Murray doesn’t like wet summers. His Wolverhampton-based heating and cooling company Andrews Sykes Group makes much of its money from air-conditioning and ventilation systems. Read

13. (11) Sir Peter Rigby £520m (£520m) Jan 20 2009

Birmingham computer entrepreneur and aviation enthusiast Sir Peter Rigby is spreading his wings. He had added another luxury hotel to his collection, bringing his portfolio to three.Read

14. (13) Tony Gallagher £500m (£475m) Jan 20 2009

If you look at the long lists of business, retail and residential developments under way by the two divisions of Tony Gallagher’s company, you wouldn’t believe there had ever been a credit crunch.Read

15. (24) Sir Michael Bishop £480m (£200m) Jan 19 2009

After months of takeover speculation, Sir Michael Bishop finally sold his share of Castle Donnington-based Bmi to Lufthansa in a pre-Christmas deal.Read

16. (14) Roy Richardson and Family £460m (£460m) Jan 19 2009

The Richardson’s have been the big guns of Midland property development for many years.Read

17. (15) Freddie Linnett £450m (£450m) Jan 19 2009

Errand girl to multi-millionaire Freddie Linnett is a director and leading shareholder in the successful family-owned property company Charles Street Buildings (Leicester). Read

18. (17) Graham Whateley £425m (£425m) Jan 19 2009

The last year has continued to see growth in Graham Whateley’s assets thanks to good performances in his property development firm Castlemore Securities and his other business investments.Read

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