Carphone Warehouse Billionaire Charles Dunstone Tops Digital Rich List
Gocompare Ensures GBP95m Fortune for Cardiff's Hayley Parsons
Play.com Posts GBP160m Each for Jersey Duo
Bet365 Father and Daughter Highest Rollers in Online Gambling with GBP700m Fortune
Struq Founder Nets GBP40m at the Age of 27
LONDON, May 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The success of Carphone Warehouse and Talk Talk has made Charles Dunstone Britain's first digital billionaire. Dunstone's GBP1,000m fortune puts him top of the list of digital and online retailers in The Sunday Times Rich List 2011 this weekend.
The 23rd annual Sunday Times Rich List – the definitive guide to wealth in Britain and Ireland – is published as an extra 104-page magazine, free with the paper on Sunday.
All the 10 top digital and online retailers in the 2011 Sunday Times Rich List have enjoyed significant increases in their personal wealth since last year's Rich List was published. The success of online shopping has tripled the fortunes of fashion retailers Johnnie Boden, now worth GBP310m, and Nick Robertson, founder of Asos, who now has a GBP177m fortune.
The Jersey-based entertainment mail-order business Play.com, which specialises in Vat-free DVDs and CDs, has produced fortunes of GBP160m a piece for owners Richard Goulding and Simon Perree.
New entries to the online retailing list include Hayley Parsons, 37, who has carved out a GBP95m fortune with insurance comparison site Gocompare.com. The list of Online Gambling millionaires is headed by father and daughter, Peter and Denise Coates, owners of Bet365, who share a GBP750m fortune. Peter Coates is chairman of Stoke City Football Club.
Among the Young Rich in the list, aged 30 and under, Sam Barnett, 27, has amassed a GBP40m fortune with Struq, which provides retailers with personalised ads on the web. Daniel Ek, 28, a Swede based in London, is worth GBP15m on the strength of his stake in the internet music service Spotify. Another 28-year-old, Richard Jones has made a GBP15m fortune with Audioscrobbler.
The tables below only include people who derive their main wealth from digital and online businesses.
THE SUNDAY TIMES RICH LIST 2011
DIGITAL AND ONLINE RETAILING MILLIONAIRES
Rank | Name | Company | 2011 national rank | 2010 national rank | 2011 wealth | 2010 wealth | Difference +/- | |
1 | Charles Dunstone | Carphone Warehouse and Talk Talk | 67= | 102 | GBP1,000m | GBP604m | +GBP396m | |
2 | Henry Engelhardt | Admiral | 120 | 110 | GBP648m | GBP572m | +GBP76m | |
3 | David Ross | Carphone Warehouse and Talk Talk | 178= | New entry | GBP450m | - | - | |
4 | Simon Nixon | moneysupermarket | 194= | 201 | GBP412m | GBP344m | +GBP68m | |
5 | Douw Steyn | Comparethemarket.com | 221= | 214= | GBP360m | GBP320m | +GBP40m | |
6 | Johnnie Boden | Boden | 251 | 751= | GBP310m | GBP89m | +GBP221m | |
7 | Lord Alliance | N Brown | 269= | 251= | GBP290m | GBP265m | +GBP25m | |
8 | Kuljinder Bahia | Southall Travel | 372= | 1,037= | GBP184m | GBP60m | +GBP124m | |
9 | Nick Robertson | Asos | 389= | 1,156= | GBP177m | GBP54m | +GBP123m | |
10 | David and Heather Stevens | Admiral | 410= | 519= | GBP170m | GBP128m | +GBP42m | |
11= | Richard Goulding | play.com | 430= | 472= | GBP160m | GBP140m | +GBP20m | |
11= | Simon Perree | play.com | 430= | 472= | GBP160m | GBP140m | +GBP20m | |
13 | Guy Johnson | Carphone Warehouse | 449= | 486= | GBP155m | GBP135m | +GBP20m | |
14 | Peter Wood | Direct Line and Esure | 457= | 540= | GBP150m | GBP120m | +GBP30m | |
15 | Duncan Cameron | moneysupermarket | 528= | 498= | GBP132m | GBP132m | No change | |
16 | Nick Wheeler and Chrissie Rucker | White Company | 537= | 596= | GBP130m | GBP110m | +GBP20m | |
17 | Tony and Barbara Laithwaite | Direct Wines | 681= | 1,112= | GBP105m | GBP57m | +GBP48m | |
18 | Dinesh Dhamija | Ebookers | 703= | 875= | GBP100m | GBP75m | +GBP25m | |
19= | Hayley Parsons | Gocompare | 751= | New entry | GBP95m | - | - | |
19= | Julian and Marc Worth | Worth Global Style Network | 751= | 688= | GBP95m | GBP95m | No change | |
21 | Sam Rayner | Lakeland | 817= | 1,178= | GBP85m | GBP53m | +GBP32m | |
22 | Rahul and Rita Sharma | Best at Travel | 871= | 763= | GBP80m | GBP85m | -GBP5m | |
23 | Christopher Watson and family | Chain Reaction Cycles | 94= | New entry | GBP75m | - | - | |
THE SUNDAY TIMES RICH LIST 2011
ONLINE GAMBLING MILLIONAIRES
Rank | Name | Company | 2011 national rank | 2010 national rank | 2011 wealth | 2010 wealth | Difference +/- | |
1 | Peter and Denise Coates | Bet365 | 90= | 132= | GBP750m | GBP500m | +GBP250m | |
2 | Ruth Parasol and Russ DeLeon | PartyGaming | 97 | 69 | GBP733m | GBP832m | -GBP99m | |
3 | Fred and Peter Done | Betfred | 112= | 92= | GBP660m | GBP660m | No change | |
4 | Vikrant Bhargava | PartyGaming | 311 | 281= | GBP230m | GBP230m | No change | |
5 | Victor Chandler | Victor Chandler Betting | 430= | 405= | GBP160m | GBP160m | No change | |
6 | Ed Wray | Betfair | 528= | 336= | GBP132m | GBP190m | -GBP58m | |
7 | Andrew Black | Betfair | 562= | 348= | GBP125m | GBP185m | -GBP60m | |
8 | Richard Koch | Betfair | 778= | 517= | GBP92m | GBP129m | -GBP37m | |
9 | Phil Cronin | Tombola.com | 859= | 1,130= | GBP82m | GBP55m | +GBP27m | |
The 23rd annual Sunday Times Rich List – the definitive guide to wealth in Britain and Ireland – is published in a special 104-page magazine, which profiles the 1,000 richest people and families in the UK. The list is based on identifiable wealth (land, property, other assets such as art and racehorses, or significant shares in publicly quoted companies), and excludes bank accounts (to which the paper has no access).
The list will appear simultaneously at www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/richlist2011 as part of the online subscription - available to new users for just GBP1 for the first 30 days, subscribers get access to both The Times and The Sunday Times websites, award-winning iPad editions, as well as Times+ membership benefits.
To find out more and to see the trailer please visit www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/richlist-trailer/
The Sunday Times Rich List 2011 is compiled by Philip Beresford, the leading authority on British wealth, and edited by Ian Coxon.
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SOURCE The Sunday Times
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