$3 Billion | Rank #913 Who is Stefan von Holtzbrinck Originally founded as a book club in 1948, Holtzbrinck’s businesses include Macmillan Publishers, S. Fischer Verlag and Holtzbrinck Digital. In 2006, Dieter sold his shares to his siblings, leaving each of them with 50% of the company. Monika died …
$4 Billion | Rank #822 Who is Wenzhong Zhang Wumart is a multi-brand retailer with supermarkets and department stores, among other businesses. He was sentenced to 18 years in prison for financial violations in 2008 and released in 2013. Zhang’s earlier convictions were overturned by China’s high court in …
$2 Billion | Rank #1818 Who is David Teoh A series of smart acquisitions transformed the company from a computer retailer into a major internet service provider in Australia. Teoh’s listed internet service provider, TPG merged with Vodafone Hutchison Australia in 2020 and was relisted as TPG Telecom. He …
$2 Billion | Rank #1397 Who is Martin Lau He became a billionaire for the first time in 2017 after Tencent shares jumped by a third over the previous year. Beijing-born Lau grew up in Hong Kong and was educated in the U.S. He left Goldman Sachs to join …
$1 Billion | Rank #2448 Who is Zhang Cheng Fei Zhang’s sister Cheung Yan, the chairlady of Nine Dragons, is also a billionaire. Zhang’s brother-in-law Liu Ming Chung, the CEO of Nine Dragons, is also one of three billionaires in the family. Coming from an average or middle class …
$2 Billion | Rank #1238 Who is Chuchat Petaumpai & Daonapa Petampai They grew the company into Thailand’s biggest provider of loans against motorcycles with 5,800 branches. That company’s customers include farmers, factory workers and civil servants. The couple took their company public in 2014 and changed its name …
$2 Billion | Rank #1929 Who is Geng Jianming Geng was born into a poor family in Nanjing. With several others, Geng started his own construction business in a work shed in 1995. Coming from an average or middle class family, Geng Jianming is one those great persons who …
$2 Billion | Rank #1929 Who is Ali Erdemoglu They initially acquired 51% of SASA in 2015 for $102 million, then added to their stake in the publicly traded company and watched it soar in value. The brothers’ Erdemoglu Holding also includes the two privately held companies, Merinos Carpet …
$6 Billion | Rank #438 Who is Matthias Reimann-Andersen Upon the death of their father in 1984, Matthias and eight other heirs each inherited 11.1% of JAB; five of them subsequently divested their stakes. The brands associated with the Reimann fortune include Pret A Manger, Krispy Kreme donuts, Peet’s …
