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TH E WORLDÕ S BILLIONA IR E S

DENMARK
GdP: $325.2 Bil FRANCE
PoPuLation: 6 Mil eXpatriate
BiLLionaires: 10 (+4 VS. 2017) aarHus 1 Wealth
totaL net WortH: $43.7 Bil (+$5.1 Bil VS. 2017) silKeBorG GdP: $2.6 tril tOP SeCtOrS Origin
PoPuLation: 65 Mil 9
anders holch Povlsen  niels Peter louis-hansen  HumleBaeK BiLLionaires: 40 FASHION & RETAIL 22%
$7.4 Bil #207 FasHion retaiL $4.7 Bil #441 MedicaL deVices (+2 VS. 2017) 6
50%
Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen  lars larsen  totaL net WortH: HEALTH CARE 28%
6
$5.4 Bil #351 LeGo $4.2 Bil #514 retaiL BilluND $320.4 Bil FOOD & BEVERAGE
(+$75.3 Bil VS. 2017)

Sofie Kirk Kristiansen ★ hanni toosbuy Kasprzak  NorDBorG
4 inheriteD & grOWing
$5.4 Bil #351 LeGo $2.6 Bil #924 sHoes FINANCE & INVESTMENTS inheriteD
HaDerslev SelF-MaDe
thomas Kirk Kristiansen ★ Martin Moller nielsen  3
$5.4 Bil #351 LeGo $2.1 Bil #1157 COPENHAGEN CONSTRUCTION
aircraFt LeasinG
agnete Kirk thinggaard ★
$5.4 Bil #351 LeGo Bent Jensen 
$1.1 Bil #1999
eLectric Motors
Kjeld Kirk
Kristiansen
TrOPHY: Th ird-
generation Lego owner
Kristiansen opened his
latest homage to the
plastic brick, the Lego
House, in September.
Designed as both
a museum and an
interactive play zone,
the 130,000-square-
foot structure is built Françoise Bettencourt Meyers
on the site of the

former town hall in newCOmer: After her mother, Liliane Bettencourt, died at age 94 in Septem-

Billund, Denmark, and ber, Bettencourt Meyers officially became France’s new L’Oréal heiress and the

resembles 21 larger- richest woman in Europe. The granddaughter of L’Oréal’s founder, she had al-
than-life Lego bricks ready been running the holding company through which she, her husband and
stacked on top of each their two sons own L’Oréal stock. She has written three books, including one
other. about the Greek gods.
EGYPT FINLAND clement Fayat
newsmaker: a street in
GdP: $193.7 Bil GdP: $253.1 Bil Libourne, France, northeast
PoPuLation: 92 Mil PoPuLation: 6 Mil of Bordeaux, was renamed
BiLLionaires: 6 (–1 VS. 2017) BiLLionaires: 6 (–1 VS. 2017) avenue clement Fayat in
totaL net WortH: $18.2 Bil totaL net WortH: $13.5 Bil May in honor of the French
(+$100 Mil VS. 2017) (+$600 Mil VS. 2017) billionaire who 60 years
earlier opened his first public

works company, the national
company for terracing, in the
antti herlin  city. Libourne’s mayor joined
$4.2 Bil #514 eLeVators,
escaLators Fayat for the unveiling.
Cairo heikki Kyostila  Fayat started the group at
5 $2.2 Bil #1103 age 25 and was in charge
dentaL Products until 2013, when he handed
oversight to his two sons.
eXpatriate antti aarnio-Wihuri 
$2 Bil #1215 diVersiFied He is now Fayat Group’s
honorary president. He also
Mika anttonen  owns three vineyards.
$2 Bil #1215 oiL & Gas
ilkka herlin 
nassef Sawiris 
$6.6 Bil #251 construction, $1.6 Bil #1477 eLeVators,
cHeMicaLs escaLators
ilona herlin 
naguib Sawiris  gilles Martin
$4 Bil #550 teLecoM $1.5 Bil #1561 eLeVators, HelsiNKi
escaLators newsmaker: Martin is CEO of Eurofins

Mohamed Mansour  5 Scientific, a food and pharmaceutical testing

$2.7 Bil #887 diVersiFied
company that he founded in 1987; it claims
Yasseen Mansour  the greatest total shareholder return of any
$1.9 Bil #1284 diVersiFied
company listed on a European exchange
Mohamed al Fayed  over the past two decades. His brother Yves-
$1.6 Bil #1477 retaiL, Loïc, the company’s former chief technolo-
inVestMents

KirKKoNummi gy officer, joins Martin in the wealth ranks,
Youssef Mansour  thanks to a 13% rise in the value of Eurofins

$1.4 Bil #1650 diVersiFied
shares in the past 12 months.
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