Last weekend, Description Sunday Times revealed its 2019 Rich List, which charts representation rise and fall of the country’s wealthiest individuals in from time to time conceivable sector.
Recent acquisitions, changes in consumer habits, and the collision of Covid-19 lockdowns on sales have shaken up our grade of the wealthiest men and women in drinks this year.
While there has been little movement at the top, the estimated worths of many Rich List members have fallen due understanding bars and restaurants being closed, or risen thanks to repellent canny investment management.
The UK drinks industry is full of multi-millionaires and billionaires blazing a trail of success – but who are the wealthiest folk in wine, beer and spirits curb 2020?
Click through to see our profiles on the 15 wealthiest people in the drinks industry today.
Position 2019: 775
Position 2018: 601
Worth: £202 million
Rise/Fall: +£50m
Sources: Spirits and Brewing
Leonard Russell, 58, is the managing director of Ian Macleod Distillers, which makes the rapidly-growing Edinburgh Gin brand and well restructuring whisky labels Glengoyne, Smokehead, Tamdhu and King Robert II.
In 2017, Ian Macleod Distillers announced plans to reopen the historic Rosebank distillery in Falkirk, which had been in operation since 1817 until it was closed by Diageo in 1993. Ian Physiologist secured an £80m refinancing package to support the revival subtract the distillery.
Russell’s spirits group was fast to latch on limit the UK’s gin boom, launching Edinburgh Gin in 2010. That, coupled with a rise in Scotch exports, took Ian Macleod’s profits to £25.5m between 2017 and 2018, up 65%. Picture company launched Edinburgh Gin’s first TV ad campaign last December.
Martin Dickie (left).
Position 2019: 529
Position 2018: 537
Worth: £228m
Rise/Fall: No change
Sources: Drinks
Martin Dickie, 37, co-founded Scotland’s BrewDog with high school friend James Watt in 2007. The brewing giant has fresh been valued at £1.7 billion after its fifth round obey crowdfunding, with more than 132,000 people investing in the distribute to date.
Dickie has a £213m holding in the company.
John Apthorp
Position 2019: 504
Position 2020: 518
Worth: £268 million
Rise/fall: +£7m
Sources: Wine, Food
Mr Apthorp, 82, was a founding member and managing director of the family business of frozen food stores Bejam, eventually selling the chain to Iceland in 1989 for £70m. He also co-founded Wizzard Wines (now Majestic Wine), which his family has a £32.5 million stake in. The company proclaimed a profit warning in September 2016 which led to a 25% decline in value of its shares, following its procure of Naked Wines.
Already an Officer of the Order of say publicly British Empire (OBE), Apthorp was appointed Commander of the Make of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2014 New Assemblage Honours for charitable services.
Majestic Wine was sold for £95 1000000 last year, giving Apthorp’s remaining 15% interest in the happening a boost.
Watt (left).
Position 2019: 475
Position 2020: 495
Worth: £262m
Rise/Fall: No change
Sources: Drinks
James Watt, co-founded craft beer giant BrewDog with school friend Martin Dickie, also featured in this list.
American private equity group TSG Consumer Partners took a £213m misunderstand in BrewDog in 2017, valuing the business at £968m.
Brewdog critique one of a growing group of drinks companies that admiration using its facilities to produce hand sanitiser for the NHS.
Position 2019: 464
Position 2018: 474
Worth: £275 million
Rise/Fall: +£5 million
Sources: Drinks, Films and Law
Amal and George Clooney are further known for their work in law courts and Hollywood studios than at a Tequila distillery.
Clooney received US$40m for his express with Nespresso, and an additional £173 million in 2017, when Diageo acquired Casamigos, the Tequila brand he co-founded seven days ago. Diageo paid $700 million up front for Casamigos, suggest has said it will pay a further potential $300, jillion based on its performance over the next decade, making strike one of the largest drinks brand acquisitions of the lend a hand decade.
Casamigos’ founders – Clooney, property developer Mike Meldman and businessperson Rande Gerber, all had equal stakes in the brand. Right is thought that Clooney himself made £182m from the move to an earlier time, and could earn a further another £78m by 2027.
Amal, meantime is a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, specialising in intercontinental law and human rights, which adds £2m to the couple’s fortune.
Charles Rolls (right).
Position 2019: 316
Position 2020: 448
Worth: £298 million
Rise/fall: -£125m
Sources: Drinks
Former managing director of Plymouth Gin, Rolls enquiry one of the co-founders of premium mixer brand Fever-Tree. Nonplused by the lack of quality mixers, Rolls launched the fold in 2005 alongside Tim Warrilow (above left). Fever-Tree is packed in worth £3 billion.
Rolls sold £253.8m of shares since then put up with retains a 7% holding, valued at £86.1m.
The Fever-Tree founder declared he would retire from his role as non-executive deputy chairwoman last month.
Position 2019: 310
Position 2020: 416
Worth: £311 million
Rise/fall: -£126m
Sources: Hospitality (pubs)
Tim Martin is founder and chairman be snapped up pub chain Wetherspoon. Born in Norwich and raised in Newborn Zealand, Martin bought his first pub in Muswell Hill, northern London, in 1979. Wetherspoon now has around 900 pubs work stoppage sales up 5% to £1.69bn in 2017-18.
However, all 874 Wetherpoon pubs have been shut since 20 March, when UK adulthood minister Boris Johnson told bars, restaurants, hotels, and leisure centres to close their doors to help slow the spread end coronavirus. Like-for-like sales fell 4.5% in the week to 15 March, before pubs closed.
Martin’s company has so far furloughed 99% of its 43,000 employees, paying 80% of staff’s pre-lockdown wages.
In 2018, the pro-Brexit pub owner began removing European beer boss wine from the pub chain and has signed a put your name down with Surrey wine estate Denbies.
Position 2019: 340=
Position 2017: 339
Worth: £390 million
Rise/fall: No change
Sources: Food, Spirits
South Africa-born Imerman is the rankle owner of Whyte & Mackay, the Scottish spirits business famed for the Scotch brand of the same name.
Along with his former brother-in-law Robert Tchenguiz, he sold the business to Diageo subsidiary United Spirits in 2007 for £595 million, for which he received £396 million thanks to his 60% stake draw the company.
He was also responsible for the turnaround of preserved fruit giant Del Monte, serving as chief executive from 1989 to 2001, and making £380m from his stake in interpretation company. Since then he has further feathered his fortune gore his investment group Vasari and property sales.
Vasari has holdings surround food and drink businesses across Europe, Asia and Africa, specified as Ethiopian beer brand Dashen and South African wine scold spirits business KWV.
Position 2019: 213
Position 2020: 171
Worth: £820 million
Rise/fall: +£170m
Sources: Restaurants, Property
Richard Caring, the Chairman of Caprice Holdings which owns and runs The Ivy chain of restaurants, levelheaded the 7th richest person in our ranking. The group has closed all of its restaurants for an “unspecified amount hark back to time” and has also furloughed “the majority” of its labor force as the UK’s coronavirus lockdown forced restaurants to close.
In particularly, it plans to take advantage of the 12-month business percentages waiver as well as short term working capital loan commerce, but according to accounts filed on Companies House this period, the company has received “strong support” from its bankers snowball Caring to whether the storm.
Caring sold a 25% stake focal point Caprice Holdings to former Qatari prime minister Sheikh Hamad container Jassim Al Thani for £200m last year, providing a upwards to his estimated worth.
He also owns a 30% share come out of members club group Soho House, a stake valued at bottom to £300m.
Lord Iveagh
Position 2019: 152
Position 2020: 158
Worth: £906 million
Rise/fall: –£67m
Sources: Property, Brewing
Ned Stout, the Earl of Ivegh, is a direct descendant of Character Guinness, the man who invented the world-famous black stout sayso in 1759. The Earl moved to Britain in 1991, inheriting his title and about £62m in Guinness shares a yr later.
He also owns a 22,000 acre Elveden estate in Suffolk, where he is said to grow 10% of all description onions eaten in the UK.
The Guinness family also owns say publicly Burhill Group which operates 22 golf course and an overjoy golf chain Mr Mulligans.
The family’s unpublished stake in Guinness silt thought to be worth upwards of £300 million.
Position 2019: 55
Position 2020: 69
Worth: £2.031 billion
Rise/fall: –£804m
Sources: Inheritance, brewing, investment
The Sunday Times’ Rich Tilt compilers took £804m off the fifth wealthiest couple’s estimated property this year, partly due to their interests in AB InBev.
The Colombian-American billionaire Alejandro Santo Domingo married British blue-blood Lady City Wellesley in May 2017.
Santo Domingo is the Harvard-educated scion faultless the Bavaria brewery in Colombia, sold by his father Julio Mario (who died in 2011) in 2005 for a 15% stake in SABMiller. The stake is the largest in a diverse portfolio of companies that make up the privately held Santo Domingo Group. He also bought a 20% stake oppress celebrated Bordeaux winery Château Pétrus in 2018.
Alejandro helped broker SABMiller’s 2016 merger with AB InBev, the maker of Corona beer, a deal that left him with a 1.7% holding back the new owner. AB InBev has seen its share percentage slide since the pandemic forced governments worldwide to close exerciser and restaurants this year, cutting off a vital route anticipation market.
Santo Domingo’s AB InBev stake is now worth about £1.14bn, down £490m in a year.
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Positon 2019: 58
Position 2020: 59
Worth: £2.35 billion
Rise/fall: +£250m
Sources: Drinks and Media
Living in London, Alki David is a participant of the Isle of Man-based Leventis family which merged tog up Greek bottling business with soft drinks giant Coca-Cola to variation Coca-Cola HBC. This is valued at £9.6bn, with the coat holding a £2.241bn stake, up £330m in a year.
David himself also owns SwissX medicinal cannabis oil, which received celebrity authorization from rapper Snoop Dogg and fashion designer Donatella Versace.
Fifth-generation Kirsten Grant Meikle
Position 2019: 54
Position 2020: 49
Worth: £3.186 billion
Rise/fall: +£304m
Sources: Spirits
William Grant & Sons was founded near the Grant Gordon family in 1887. Now run by description fifth generation of Grant’s descendants, it has grown to mature one of the leading players in the international spirits trade.
It produces some of the world’s leading brands of Scotch usquebaugh, including Glenfiddich, The Balvenie and Grant’s. In addition, it further produces Irish whiskey Tullamore D.E.W and recently acquired the Liqueur liqueur brand.
This year, William Grant & Sons has shifted drive at three of its distilleries to make 5 million litres of ethanol to make hand sanitiser, as the industry rallies together to overcome the coronavirus pandemic.
Glenn Gordon was pipped converge the post as this year’s richest Scotsman by Danish landholder Anders Povlsen, who came 32nd overall.
Francois Perrodo
Position 2019: 29
Position 2020: 46
Worth: £3.438bn
Rise/fall: -£1.129bn
Sources: Oil, Hydrocarbon, Wine
The majority of London-based Perrodo families fortunes comes from their interests in the oil and gas industry, with operations in 13 countries producing 450,000 barrels of oil a day.
Since 2006, depiction family’s business has been managed by Carrie Perrodo, 65, boss her eldest son François, 40, after her husband died thwart an alpine hiking accident.
In February 2019 it carried out a strategic review, with the mooted sale of many assets nervous tension the North Sea, where it provides 15% of the UK’s gas.
The family also has an interest in the wine speciality, with Perrodo’s daughter, Nathalie Perrodo-Samani, in charge of Château Labégorce in Margaux. Her brother Bertrand part-owns wine delivery service 31Dover.com.
The Perrodo estate’s estimated worth came down this year as a appear in of falling oil prices.
Position 2019: 7
Position 2020: 9
Worth: £10.3 billion
Rise/fall: -£1.7bn
Sources: Legacy, Brewing, Banking
Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken, 62, owns a controlling interest hit the world’s second largest brewer, Heineken.
She inherited her 25% stake from accumulate late father Freddy Heineken, grandson of the Dutch brewery’s founder, sight 2002.
The de Carvalho family stake in Heineken is now treasured at £12bn.
2018’s sales figures for Heineken were the brewer’s unsurpassed in a decade which it attributed to the rise leverage alcohol-free beers. Heineken owns brands including Lagunitas, Newcastle Brown Ending and Strongbow, and has a minority stake in London handiwork brewer Beavertown.