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Friday, May 05, 2017

The Scottish Billionaires


The 10 richest individuals or families in Scotland have a combined wealth of £14.71bn, according to a new study.
The 2017 Sunday Times Rich List reveals that their collective fortunes have increased by 9% in the past year.
The Grant-Gordon whisky family is the richest in Scotland, with a fortune of £2.37bn, up £210m since last year.
Second on the Scottish list is former Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed and family, who own an estate in Scotland and whose fortune has held steady at £1.7bn.
Mahdi al-Tajir, who owns Highland Spring, sits in third place on the list with an overall fortune of £1.67bn.
Fourth on the Scottish list is Trond Mohn, the founder of a Norwegian pump firm, and his sister Marit Mohn Westlake, who are worth £1.62bn.
Others in the Scottish top 10 include oil industry leader Sir Ian Wood and family with wealth of £1.6bn, and the Thomson family, owners of publisher DC Thomson, who are worth £1.285bn.
John Shaw and Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw have now entered the realm of the billionaires as a result of their Bangalore-based biopharmaceutical firm Biocon. They boast £1.15bn to their names, earning a wealth increase of £530m in the last 12 months alone, and rank joint seventh position in Scotland alongside retail chief Philip Day, who owns Langholm-based Edinburgh Woollen Mill.
The Clark family, of the Arnold Clark car dealership, and Jim McColl, of Clyde Blowers, take ninth and 10th spot, with fortunes of £1.1bn and £1.07bn respectively.

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