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North West Rich List 2013
B&M Bargains bosses become billionaires
EIGHT North West billionaires are listed in the 2013 Sunday Time Rich List, published on April 21.
The annual list, which profiles the 1,000 richest people and families in the UK, also includes Britain’s first billionaire under the age of 30.
Robin Arora, 28, shares a £1.1bn fortune with his brothers Simon, 43, and Bobby, 41.
The brothers, who live in Manchester, run the Liverpool-based cut price store chain B&M Bargains. They have more than doubled their combined fortune in a year, from £487m to £1.1bn, a rise of 126 per cent.
Topping the North West billionaires list is the Duke of Westminster whose property fortune has risen to £7.8bn, up £450m on last year.
The Duke Of Westminster £7.8bn
See below for the full list of 20 richest in the North West of England.
| Regional rank 2013 | Regional rank 2012 | Name | Source of wealth | National rank | 2013 wealth | 2012 wealth |
| 1 | 1 | The Duke of Westminster | Property | 8 | £7,800m | £7,350m |
| 2 | 2 | John Whittaker | Property | 31= | £2,300m | £2,175m |
| 3 | 5 | Peter Hargreaves | Finance | 47 | £1,523m | £830m |
| 4 | 8 | Tom Morris and family | Discount stores | 62 | £1,220m | £620m |
| 5 | 4 | Lord Grantchester and the Moores family | Retailing and football pools | 64= | £1,220m | £1,200m |
| 6 | 13 | Simon, Bobby and Robin Arora | Discount stores | 73= | £1,100m | £487m |
| 7 | 3 | Robin Sheppard and family | Scrap metal | 80 | $1,040m | £1,235m |
| 8 | 9 | John Hargreaves and family | Fashion | 84= | £1,000m | £600m |
| 9 | 7 | Fred and Peter Done | Gambling | 102= | £850m | £700m |
| 10 | 6 | Peter Jones and Family | Property | 124 | £707m | £720m |
| 11 | 10 | Trevor Hemmings | Property | 148 | £610m | £575m |
| 12 | 14 | Michael Oliver and family | Engineering | 169 | £517m | £344m |
| 13= | 11 | The Walker family | Aviation, steel and property | 173= | £500m | £510m |
| 13= | 12 | The Warburton family | Baking | 173= | £500m | £500m |
| 15 | 16 | Lord Alliance and family | Mail order and textiles | 224= | £400m | £292m |
| 16 | 17 | Sir Lindsey Owen-Jones | Beauty products | 238= | £375m | £280m |
| 17= | 19 | Geoffrey Halstead and family | Flooring | 246= | £350m | £270m |
| 17= | 15 | Henry Moser and family | Finance | 246= | £350m | £298m |
| 19 | 23 | Michael Oglesby and family | Property | 255= | £340m | £200m |
| 20 | 18 | Sit John Zochonis and family | Soap | 261= | £330m | £274m |
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This is sloppy journalism. A £1.1bn fortune shared by three brothers does not make each of them a billionaire.
you might want to take that up with the Sunday Times rather than ManCon, that's how they've always done it
I'd like another column telling us how much they give to charity please??
Why? because a person is wealthy do you have some sort of right to their private financial details?
If this isn't indicative of whereabouts folks spend - what little money they have - these days, I dont know what is...
Congrats lads - congrats!
Doesn't make sense. £1 in every £8 (ish) is spent in Tesco but it won't appear in this list because it's a publicly traded company, not privately owned.
BELLEL7? Bell end more like.
In each case, the source of wealth should be given as 'the unpaid labour of those they exploit, the working class'.
I don't understand your comment. Are you saying the people that are in these rankings make people work for free?
No, anonymous, but do their companies pay a living wage or do they, like many corporate benefit scroungers, rely on the state to top up their employees wages?
47% of Manchester children live in poverty. Yes - these obscenely rich folk should be accountable to us.
"Us" being "who" exactly...?
Just for anyone who is interested, I work for The Christie NHS Foundation Trust and can confirm that several of the people on this list are regular and incredibly generous donators to the hospital Charity.
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