The Forbes list: top-10 richest retailers in the World

On March, 20, American business magazine Forbes has published an annual ranking of the richest people in the World – The World’s Billionaries. Rau.ua chose from the list ten richest retailers on the planet.

The most actual trends in the modern business apparently have reflected in retail. An owners of retail companies on the Forbes Billionaires list are evidence of this. Among the richest retailers are representatives of innovative companies, which have almost all income from work on the World Wide Web (like Jeff Bezos and Amazon, Jack Ma and Aliexpress). And there are stakeholders of traditional retail companies, which are just beginning to come online, but the biggest part of revenue they get from conventional stores (like owners of Walmart, Inditex, Aldi etc). Rau.ua has selected ten richest retailers in the World according to Forbes, and has found what their main assets. Most of them were able to increase their capital.

1. Name: Jeff Bezos (3 place in the Forbes list)

Age: 53

Country: USA

Industries: E-commerce

Source of Wealth: Amazon

Net worth:

2017: $72,8 B

2016: $45,2 B

Change: +$27,6 B

2. Name: Amancio Ortega (4)

Age: 80

Country: Spain

Industries: Fashion-retail

Source of Wealth: Inditex

Net worth:

2017: $71,3 B

2016: $67 B

Change: +$4,3 B

3. Name: Bernard Arnault (11)

Age: 68

Country: France

Industries: Fashion-retail

Source of Wealth: LVMH (Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton)

Net worth:

2017: $41,5 B

2016: $34 B

Change: +$7,5 B

4. Source of Wealth: Wal-Mart

Industries: FMCG

Country: USA

Name: S. Robson Walton (15)

Age: 72

Net worth:

2017: $34,1 B

2016: $31,9 B

Change: +$2,2 B

Name: Jim Walton (16)

Age: 68

Net worth:

2017: $34 B

2016: $33,6 B

Change: +$400 mln

Name: Alice Walton (17)

Age: 67

Net worth:

2017: $33,8 B

2016: $32,3 B

Change: +$1,5 B

5. Name: Jack Ma (23)

Age: 52

Country: China

Industries: E-commerce

Source of Wealth: Alibaba Group

Net worth:

2017: $28,3 B

2016: $20,5 B

Change: +$7,8 B

6. Name: Beate Heister & Karl Albrecht Jr. (24)

Age: –

Country: Germany

Industries: FMCG

Source of Wealth: Aldi

Net worth:

2017: $27,2 B

2016: $25,9 B

Change: +$1,3 B

7. Name: Stefan Persson (43)

Age: 69

Country: Sweden

Industries: Fashion-retail

Source of Wealth: H&M

Net worth:

2017: $19,6 B

2016: $20,8 B

Change: -$1,2 B

8. Name: Theo Albrecht, Jr. (44)

Age: 66

Country: Germany

Industries: FMCG

Source of Wealth: Aldi, Trader Joe’s

Net worth:

2017: $18,8 B

2016: $20,3 B

Change: -$1,5 B

9. Name: Dieter Schwarz (53)

Age: 77

Country: Germany

Industries: FMCG

Source of Wealth: Schwarz Group, Lidl

Net worth:

2017: $17 B

2016: $16,4 B

Change: +$600 mln

10. Name: Tadashi Yanai (60)

Age: 68

Country: Japan

Industries: Fashion-retail

Source of Wealth: Fast Retailing, Uniqlo

Net worth:

2017: $15,9 B

2016: $14,6 B

Change: +$1,3 B

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