Asian Rich List 2006 published
Howard Lake | 21 April 2006 | News
Sunrise Radio has published the 2006 Asian Rich List, detailing Britain’s top 300 Asian millionaires, worth a combined £35.3 billion and headed once again by Lakshmi Mittal with a £14.8 billion fortune.
The list of the millionaires is published online, together with details of the 2004 and 2005 lists. Registration is required to access biographical information on each member of the list, although there is no charge for this.
This year there are 44 new entries, alone worth £4,336.4 million. Although the youngest member of the list is 27 years old, the majority – 253 – are aged over 40.
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The millionaires are not surprisingly based largely in London and the south east, with 187 of them there, compared to two in the south west, 11 in Scotland and five in Wales. The Midlands and north of England score well, with 38 in the Midlands, 31 in the north west, and 21 in the Yorkshire and the north.
Industry and cash and carry/wholesaling account for the majority of millionaires with 45 in each sector.
The top 10 in the 2006 Asian Rich List are:
1. Lakshmi Mittal
2. Hinduja Brothers
3. Anurag Dikshit
4. Anil Agarwal
5. The Jatania Brothers
6. Naresh Goyal
7. Vikrant Bhargava
8. Felix Grovit
8. Lord Paul
10. Gulu Lalvani
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.