Feb
2010
Articles from 3rd Feb 2010
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44. (=35) Alan Jackson £88m (£140m)
Feb 03 2010 | Rich List 2010
Alan Jackson’s Birmingham-based Intercity Mobile doesn’t use call centres and doesn’t use voice automation. Customers get to speak to real people in the UK and have their own dedicated account manager. This personal service has stood Intercity in good stead. Read
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8= (9) John Bloor £500m (£640m)
Feb 03 2010 | Rich List 2010
It’s just as well Bloor Holdings includes the world-famous Triumph Motorcycles. Because it’s the bike business which is keeping the group on the road, giving a much needed lift to the less high-revving housing business. Read
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2. (3) John Caudwell £1.5bn (£1.65bn)
Feb 03 2010 | Rich List 2010
Billionaire mobile phone tycoon John Caudwell doesn’t believe in raising money for charity the easy way. His latest exploit to raise more than £20,000 for his charity Caudwell Children involved a climb up Mont Blanc – the highest mountain in Europe. Read
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1. (1) Kirsty Bertarelli £5.0bn (£5.5bn)
Feb 03 2010 | Rich List 2010
Devonport Yachts has an odd slogan. They claim to be responsible for some of the least known vessels in existence. So they’re not saying who the customer is for “Project 55” – one of the biggest and most technologically sophisticated superyachts ever built. Read
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41. (=45) Robbie Williams £90m (£95m)
Feb 03 2010 | Rich List 2010
Robbie Williams is on the comeback trail. After a couple of years of UFO watching and star-gazing in the States, the Stoke-on-Trent lad is well and truly back. His new album, Reality Killed The Video Star, produced by music legend Trevor Horn, came within a few hundred sales of topping the album charts and made the top of the iTunes charts in 17 countries. The single from it – Bodies – was his biggest selling single since Rock DJ. Read
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=12 (17) Freddie Linnett £450m (£450m)
Feb 03 2010 | Rich List 2010
One way to ride out the collapse in property values is to let buildings to the government. That’s exactly what Leicester-based Charles Street Buildings has done. 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
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16 (19) Will Adderley £365m (£420m)
Feb 03 2010 | Rich List 2010
Will Adderley at homewares chain Dunelm Mill is continuously cautious, with warnings about difficult times to come. But despite a shaky start to 2009 the company has exceeded expectations. Read
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49. (47) Esmond Bulmer and Family £70m (£85m)
Feb 03 2010 | Rich List 2010
Former Tory MP Esmond Bulmer and his family made £84 million when they sold their stake in the family’s Hereford-based cider-making business. Read
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4. (5) Viscount Portman £950m (£1.35bn)
Feb 03 2010 | Rich List 2010
The Portman Burtley Estate consists of 2000 acres of farmland and woodland in the Buckinghamshire countryside. Read
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41. (=43) Shiraz Dharamshi Tejani £90m (£100m)
Feb 03 2010 | Rich List 2010
Shiraz Tejani’s LPC Group is going full circle. The group – the UK’s largest independent manufacturer of tissue-based products – is looking to invest in the Tejani family’s native Uganda. Read
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15 (=10) Robert Edmiston £380m (£630m)
Feb 03 2010 | Rich List 2010
Despite falling property values and a slump in the motor trade which have affected Robert Edmiston’s businesses he remains in the top 10 list of Britain’s biggest philanthropists. Read
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6 (10) Jorgen Philip-Sorensen £620m (£630m)
Feb 03 2010 | Rich List 2010
Jorgen Philip-Sorensen died in Switzerland on January 18 after a long illness. He was 71. He remains in this year’s Rich List as a dedication to his untimely death, and his commitment to improving the environment. Read
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=46. (48) Woon Wing Yip £80m (£80m)
Feb 03 2010 | Rich List 2010
The nation’s insatiable appetite for Chinese food has meant that Woon Wing Yip – the man who founded the biggest Chinese grocery group in the country – has continued to buck the economic trend. Read
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50. (-) Christopher Taylor and Family £65m
Feb 03 2010 | Rich List 2010
If Dudley Taylor hadn’t endured the privations of a pharmaceutical apprenticeship in Truro, Cornwall, in the 1930s, then the successful chain of Dudley Taylor Pharmacies may never have been born. Read
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7 (-) Felix Dennis £580m (£750m)
Feb 03 2010 | Rich List 2010
Somewhere in the world, someone buys a Dennis Publishing magazine from a news stand every two seconds. Read
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=12 (-) The Mackie Family £450m
Feb 03 2010 | Rich List 2010
Thomas Mackie, an ex-GEC employee, founded City Electrical Factors in Coventry 1951. He began by selling electric cables and light fittings to local contractors. Now City Electrical Factors employs around 8,000 people worldwide, has more than 400 UK branches and another 400 overseas outlets and has net assets of more than £100 million. Read
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8 (14) Tony Gallagher £500m (£500m)
Feb 03 2010 | Rich List 2010
A start-to-finish approach to urban regeneration, a broad development portfolio, substantial cash resources and no borrowing. These are just some of the reasons that Tony Gallagher has survived the downturn in good shape. Read
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11 (12) Jacques Gaston Murray £480m (£625m)
Feb 03 2010 | Rich List 2010
Profits have cooled at the Andrew Sykes Group, the Wolverhampton air conditioning and hire firm largely owned by Jacques Gaston Murray. Read
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=46. (39) Abdul Majid Alimohamed £80m (£130m)
Feb 03 2010 | Rich List 2010
Jobs were saved in Birmingham and around the world when Abdul Majid Alimohamed’s family took the Yardley-based Europackaging business back into their ownership – just three years after selling it to a private equity house. Read
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8= (4) Lord Paul of Marylebone & Family £500m (£1.5bn)
Feb 03 2010 | Rich List 2010
Lord Paul’s Caparo Group has seen spectacular growth over recent years as a result of its strategy of building up a presence in the fast growing economy of India. Read
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5. (6) Randy Lerner £900m (£800m)
Feb 03 2010 | Rich List 2010
Aston Villa fans are notoriously fickle. Today’s hero can be tomorrow’s villain almost on a whim. So Randy Lerner is doing well. Read
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3. (2) Sir Anthony Bamford £1.0bn (£1.8bn)
Feb 03 2010 | Rich List 2010
A collapse in confidence, the decline in sales in emerging markets and a reluctance by banks to fund machine purchases have done Sir Anthony Bamford’s JCB a lot of damage. Read
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14 (=23) Peter Coates £400m (£300m)
Feb 03 2010 | Rich List 2010
It’s been a pretty good year for 71-year-old Peter Coates. His beloved Stoke City – of which he is chairman – is playing in the Premiership after winning promotion in 2008, and his Bet365 online betting business goes from strength to strength. Read
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45. (=45) Constantine Folkes £85m (£95m)
Feb 03 2010 | Rich List 2010
A combination of property development and investment, and good old fashioned metal bashing have been the source of wealth for Constantine Folkes, who can trace his company back to 1697. Read
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48. (49) Robert Plant £75m (£75m)
Feb 03 2010 | Rich List 2010
The partnership between 60-year-old Black Country rocker and Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant, and country and bluegrass singer Alison Krauss may have seemed an unlikely pairing – but the music industry thought it was good enough to deserve no less than five Grammy awards. Read
