Sunday Times UK rich list, who enters and who leaves All names
Lord Blavatnik (Dazn) heads the Sunday Times UK rich list. All the details in the article by Daniele Meloni
High tech entrepreneurs, Russian oligarchs, historic families of the British aristocracy: the Sunday Times " rich list " has lined up the richest men and women in the United Kingdom. A ranking – from number one to number 171 – which was renewed also in this year of pandemic with several surprises. The first is that in 2021 many more people became billionaires than in previous years: 24 more than in 2020. The total amount of the magnificent 171 is 597 thousand 269 billion pounds. The pandemic has created new opportunities for fashion retailers, video game tycoons and other technology entrepreneurs who have taken advantage of the lockdown – and the needs associated with it – to increase their assets. Similarly, the list contains several “unicorns”: start-ups of online payments, those of virtual meetings and telematic services.
The pandemic has wiped out high-street retailers – think Debenhams, which will close after more than 100 years – and replaced them with online sales billionaires. River Island's bad year resulted in a substantial loss of Bernard Lewis' fortune, as the Peacocks store chain went into receivership and its owner, Philip Day, was forced to divest his Edinburgh Woolen Mill clothing empire, coming off the list for the first time in years. Same end for Sir Philip Green's Arcadia.
The winners were online retailers such as Asos and Boohoo of the Kamani family, which has increased its assets by 1 million pounds a day since the start of the pandemic. Just as the online boutique of the Anglo-Portuguese Jose Neves, who entered the rich list for the first time, did not go badly either. In the world of real estate and estates, the loss of heritage of the traditional families of the British aristocracy, whose properties go back over the centuries, has been reported. Great dynasties that have owned parts of London and the UK countryside such as the Cadogans, De Waldens and Grosvenors have seen the value of their possessions drop sharply. The 30-year-old Duke of Westminster has lost over £ 240 million in the value of his family's real estate. Worse has gone for entertainment entrepreneurs: Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group paid for the West End lockdown, also impacting the finances of the Phantom of the Opera impresario, who had to re-negotiate the mortgages on his Hampshire property since the pandemic started.
Already. But who is at the top of the list of rich people? For the second time – after 2015 – here is Sir Leonard Blavatnik, the Ukrainian-born tycoon who owns investment funds media. In Italy he is known as the patron of Dazn, renamed the "Netflix of sport", but it is thanks to his 23 billion pounds – 7.2 more than in 2020 – that Blavatnik is the Scrooge of England. His London home is in Kensington Palace Gardens and is worth 200 million. Even for another famous oligarch in the UK, Roman Abramovich, things did not go badly: 12 billion pounds of assets, up 1.9 compared to the previous year. And the women? The first in the ranking, in eighth place, is Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken, owner of the beverage empire that produces the beer of the same name and Double Dutch Drinks, a Dutch company based in London, which produces tonics and mixers for the cocktails. Among the neo-rich is another Russian, Denis Sverdlov, whose Arrival – a company that produces electric buses and vans – is worth 1.2 billion pounds and has brought the owner on the list to 26th place with 6.1 billions of pounds.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/rich-list-uk-del-sunday-times-chi-entra-e-chi-esce-tutti-i-nomi/ on Mon, 24 May 2021 09:29:34 +0000.