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The Sunday Times Rich List 2012 is the 24th annual survey of the wealthiest people in the United Kingdom, published by The Sunday Times on 29 April 2012. [1]

Top 17 fortunes

2012 [1] Name Citizenship Source of wealth 2011 [2]
Rank Net worth
£ bn
Rank Net worth
£ bn
1 Steady £12.70 Decrease Lakshmi Mittal and family   India Steel 1 £17.50
2 Steady £12.31 Decrease Alisher Usmanov   Russia Mining and Investment 2 £12.40
3 Steady £9.50 Increase Roman Abramovich   Russia Oil and industry 3 £7.40
4 Increase £8.60 Increase Sri and Gopi Hinduja   India Industry and Finance 9 £6.00
5 Increase £7.58 Increase Leonard Blavatnik   United States Industry 6 £6.24
6 Decrease £7.40 Increase Ernesto and Kirsty Bertarelli   Switzerland &   United Kingdom Pharmaceuticals 5 £6.87
7 Decrease £7.35 Increase The Duke of Westminster   United Kingdom Inheritance, Property 4 £7.00
8 Steady £7.08 Increase David and Simon Reuben   United Kingdom Property and internet 8 £6.18
9 Decrease £6.60 Increase John Fredriksen and family   Cyprus Shipping and oil services 7 £6.20
10 Decrease £5.90 Decrease Galen Weston, George Weston and family   Canada Retailing ( George Weston Limited) 9 £6.00
11 Steady £5.49 Increase Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken and Michel Carvalho   Netherlands [3] Inheritance, banking, brewing ( Heineken) 11 £5.40
12 Increase £4.30 Hans Rausing and family   Sweden Packaging 13 £4.20
13 £4.10 Joseph Lau   China Property
14 £4.30 Nicky Oppenheimer   South Africa Mining, diamonds
15 £3.90 Kirsten & Jörn Rausing   Sweden Inheritance, investment
16 £3.40 Sir Richard Branson   United Kingdom Internet, transport, finance ( Virgin Group)
17 £3.30 Sir Philip and Lady Green   United Kingdom Retailing

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Beresford, Philip, ed. (29 April 2012). "2014 Rich List". thesundaytimes.co.uk. Archived from the original on December 31, 2010. Retrieved June 11, 2016.
  2. ^ Beresford, Philip, ed. (8 May 2011). "2014 Rich List". thesundaytimes.co.uk. Archived from the original on December 31, 2010. Retrieved June 11, 2016.
  3. ^ Fontevecchia, Agustino. "Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken". Forbes. Retrieved 9 October 2015.

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