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2009
Articles from 20th Jan 2009
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11. (10) Robert Edmiston £630m (£630m)
Jan 20 2009 | Rich List Profiles 09
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
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10. (11) Jorgen Philip-Sorensen £630m (£600m)
Jan 20 2009 | Rich List Profiles 09
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
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4. (2) Lord Paul of Marylebone and Family £1.5bn (£1.5bn)
Jan 20 2009 | Rich List Profiles 09
Lord Paul’s Caparo Group aims to be the biggest automotive technology company in India. It’s well on the way. Read
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8. (7) David Wilson and Family £730m (£725m)
Jan 20 2009 | Rich List Profiles 09
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
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13. (11) Sir Peter Rigby £520m (£520m)
Jan 20 2009 | Rich List Profiles 09
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
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14. (13) Tony Gallagher £500m (£475m)
Jan 20 2009 | Rich List Profiles 09
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
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9. (8) John Bloor £640m (£650m)
Jan 20 2009 | Rich List Profiles 09
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
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6. (5) Randy Lerner £800m (£800m)
Jan 20 2009 | Rich List Profiles 09
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
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7. (6) Felix Dennis £750m (£750m)
Jan 20 2009 | Rich List Profiles 09
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
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2. (4) Sir Anthony Bamford £1.8bn (£1.2bn)
Jan 20 2009 | Rich List Profiles 09
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
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1. (-) Kirsty Bertarelli £5.5bn (-)
Jan 20 2009 | Rich List Profiles 09
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 time Read
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3. (1) John Caudwell £1.65bn (£1.65bn)
Jan 20 2009 | Rich List Profiles 09
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
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12. (9) Jacques Gaston Murray £625m (£640m)
Jan 20 2009 | Rich List Profiles 09
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
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5. (3) Viscount Portman and Family £1.35bn (£1.45bn)
Jan 20 2009 | Rich List Profiles 09
Viscount Portman’s 110-acre Central London estate has a new chief executive, but its improvement plans continue apace. Read
