Tina Green (Arcadia)
Times 100 Rich List RESULTS FOR 2009 Ranking: 6 Worth: £3,830m Down: £500m, 12% Source of wealth: Retailing
Tina Green is married to Phillip Green and together they own Arcadia group. Arcadia's assets include Burton menswear, Dorothy Perkins, Miss Selfridge and Wallis, as well as Topshop and Topman. There are more than 2,500 UK outlets plus shops in 30 countries overseas. The business has been hugely successful but profits at its parent company, Taveta Investments, were down in the last financial year, from £199m to £188m. We value Bhs and Arcadia at about £2.7 billion together, largely on the back of Topshop and Topman expansion. That values the Green family stakes at about £2.5 billion.
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Doreen Lofthouse and family
Times 100 Rich List RESULTS FOR 2009 Ranking: 346= Worth: £165m Source of wealth: Cough lozenges
The Lancashire town of Fleetwood is home to Fisherman’s Friend, the super-strong lozenges. Lofthouse, 79, runs Lofthouse of Fleetwood, the manufacturer, and has turned the lozenges into a global brand. In 2007, profits rose to £7.2m on sales of nearly £32m. The firm is worth £150m. Dividends and salaries add £15m to the family’s wealth. Lofthouse was awarded an OBE in 2008 for her charity work helping local causes.
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Victoria Beckham
Times 100 Rich List RESULTS FOR 2009 Ranking: 426= Worth: £125m Source of wealth: Football, fashion and music
Victoria Beckham, 35, is wowing the world as much as husband David today, not as a Spice Girl or solo singer but as a dress designer and fashion icon. She is carving out a niche in the high-end fashion market with her dVb label, and if her limited edition dresses sell well she could replace David, 33, as the main breadwinner when his legs finally give out on the pitch. Desperate to exploit Beckham's stay in Milan, Italian firms are lining up advertisement and sponsorship deals. We would normally add £13m this year to their wealth, but Victoria’s fashion brand is yet to be a big money-spinner so we don’t include anything for that. With falling property prices, we leave them at £125m.
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Natalie Massenet
RESULTS FOR 2009 Ranking: 1,001= Worth: £54m New entry Source of wealth: Fashion
Massenet, 43, started as a fashion editor at Women's Wear Daily, later moving to Tatler. It was hardly preparation for a career in e-commerce, but in 2000 she founded Net-a-porter, an online boutique based in London that sells high value fashion brands online to people with little time for shopping. The company delivers 200 fashion brands across Europe, America, the Middle and Far East, and employs more than 30 people in its New York and London offices. Net-a-porter sells hip designer brands including Miu Miu, ChloŽ and Marc Jacobs, and boasts same-day delivery to addresses in Manhattan and London. Vogue magazine has hailed Massenet's business as "revolutionising the way we buy designer clothes".
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Jacqui Collins
RESULTS FOR 2009 Ranking: 600= Worth: £90m Source of wealth: Novels
The queen of the blockbuster novel has sold more than 400m books since her debut, The World is Full of Married Men, in 1968. Translated into 20 languages, none of her 26 works has ever been out of print and all have headed straight into the bestseller lists. Despite being in her early seventies and a multimillionaire, her schedule would put many younger authors to shame. She was expelled from school in London at 15. She followed her older sister, Joan, to Hollywood but ended up turning to fiction, encouraged by second husband Oscar Lerman, who owned Tramp nightclub in Mayfair. entered into a contract with Fremantle Media to create romantic television dramas. With her prolific sales, plus £10m a year in earnings, she must be worth £90m after tax and spending.
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Michelle Mone
RESULTS FOR 2009 Ranking: 1,648= Worth: £33m Down: £7m Source of wealth: Retailing
Having lied about her O-level grades to land a job at brewing firm Labatt at the age of 19, Mone was running the brewer’s Scottish sales and marketing business within four years. After five years she left the company, following its takeover by Whitbread. Using her £16,000 payoff, Mone, 37, started her own lingerie operation, with the aim of creating the Ultimo bra. It was a sensation, thanks in part to a timely celebrity endorsement from Julia Roberts’s cleavage in the 2000 film Erin Brockovich. Mone and her husband, Michael, 42, have a stake in MJM worth £33m.
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Deborah Meaden
RESULTS FOR 2009 Ranking: 1,348= Worth: £40m Source of wealth: Leisure
British multi-millionairess Deborah Meaden launched her own glass and ceramics export company straight out of business college, before setting up one of the first Stefanel fashion franchises in the UK. With several successful businesses in the leisure and retail sector under her belt, she became Managing Director of her family's holiday park business, Weststar Holidays. Deborah acquired the major shareholding in a management buyout and later sold the company in a deal worth £33m while retaining a 23 per cent stake. She still retains an active role at Weststar but is devoting more time to finding good investment opportunities and being a panellist of Dragon’s Den
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Joanne Rowling
RESULTS FOR 2009 Ranking: 101 Worth: £499m Down: £61m, 11% Source of wealth: Novels and films
JK Rowling is famous for writing the Harry Potter series of books. She is by far the richest author in the world, with royalties averaging about £1 a book. The five Harry Potter films released to date have made about £2.4 billion at the box office. There are three more films to come, as the final book is being split into two. Rowling enjoys a cut of the royalties and merchandising, so her income should take her to at least £600m before tax. Unlike many top authors, however, she has not fled from the Inland Revenue. Rowling lives in Scotland with her doctor husband and three children and prides herself on paying tax in full. She is also an enormous benefactor of charities, having given away perhaps £80m to date as well as a recent £1m donation to Labour.
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Anita Roddick
RESULTS FOR 2009 Ranking: 1,077= Worth: £50m Source of wealth: Retailing
Poignantly, the late Dame Anita Roddick once said: “I don’t want to die rich. Money does not mean anything to me. The worst thing is greed. I don’t know why people who are extraordinarily wealthy are not more generous.” Before her sudden death in September 2007, from a brain haemorrhage, at the age of 64, she and her husband, 66-year-old Gordon Roddick, gave millions to charity. The pair received about £117.5m for their stake in the Body Shop chain — started by Dame Anita as a single Hove shop in 1976 — when it was taken over for £652m by the French cosmetics giant L’Oréal in 2006 .
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Karren Brady
Karen Brady (born 4 April 1969) is a British broadcasting and sport business manager.
Karen Brady is best known for being the managing director of Birmingham City Football Club. She was appointed in March 1993, when only 23 years old, and in 2002 became the first woman to hold such a post in the top flight of English football when the team was promoted. She was responsible for the company's flotation in 1997, thus becoming the youngest managing director of a UK plc.
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