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The Birmingham Post Rich List is an annual list of the 50 richest people in the Midlands region, compiled by the Birmingham Post. In 2013, the top 50 had together amassed a record-breaking £28.5 billion in the preceding year, beating the 2012 list’s record total of £25 billion. The rich list is compiled from publicly available information on personal wealth, property interests, shareholdings, company valuations, asset valuations, liabilities and other known earnings of people who either live and/or work in the Midlands, or who have major business interests in the region or have spent most of their lives here.

Rich List 2013: No.1 - Kirsty Bertarelli (£7bn)

Business
28-01-2013

A £100 million super yacht, the biggest private motor yacht ever built in the UK and the last word in six-deck luxury – not bad for an ex-beauty queen from Stone in Staffordshire.

Rich List 2013: No.2 - Sir Anthony Bamford (£3bn)

Gallery
Business
28-01-2013

The soaraway success of giant digger manufacturer JCB has ensured that Sir Anthony Bamford is by far the biggest winner in this year’s Rich List.

Rich List 2013: No.3 - John Caudwell (£1.6bn)

Business
28-01-2013

John Caudwell is estimated to be the UK’s biggest taxpayer. In the last four years he has handed over close to £200 million to the Government in tax.

Rich List 2013: No.4 - Viscount Portman (£1.3bn)

Waitrose
28-01-2013

There are probably more blue plaques on buildings in Viscount Portman’s high value Portman Estate in London’s West End than any other estate in the UK.

Rich List 2013: No.5 - Randy Lerner (£1.1bn)

Paul Lambert
28-01-2013

Aston Villa fans frustrated by their team’s continuing lack of silverware and flirtations with the relegation zone will be hoping the rumours are true.

Rich List 2013: No.6 - Lord Paul of Marylebone (£850m)

Business
28-01-2013

Lord Paul’s Caparo Group has been helping the hunt for the “god particle”.

Rich List 2013: No.7 - Peter Coates (£840m)

Labour Party
28-01-2013

Recession or no recession, people are still ready to spend money on gambling.

Rich List 2013: No.=8 - Jacques Gaston Murray (£750m)

Armed Forces
28-01-2013

Cool summers and warm winters aren’t particularly helpful to the Andrew Sykes Group, the Wolverhampton-based air conditioning and heating hire firm largely owned by Jacques Gaston Murray.

Rich List 2013: No.=8 - Ranjit and Baljinder Boparan Singh (£750m)

Business
28-01-2013

It’s been an excellent year for Ranjit and Baljinder Boparan Singh’s 2 Sisters Food Group as their £342 million acquisition of Northern Foods proves to have been a good move.

Rich List 2013: No.10 - Will Adderley (£700m)

Business
28-01-2013

The Adderley family know how to keep Dunelm Mill’s shareholders on side.

Rich List 2013: No.11 - Freddie Linnett (£550m)

Chamber of Commerce
28-01-2013

Leicester-based Charles Street Buildings property investment and development group has assets worth close to £520 million.

Rich List 2013: No.12 - Sir Peter Rigby (£520m)

BAE Systems plc
28-01-2013

Sir Peter Rigby’s Birmingham-based Specialist Computer Holdings has had the best year in its 37-year history.

Rich List 2013: No.=13 - Kevin Cash (£500m)

Simon Cowell
28-01-2013

Despite his wealth, and his influence in the London property market Birmingham-born Kevin Cash has managed to remain below the radar.

Rich List 2013: No.=13 - Felix Dennis (£500m)

Apple
28-01-2013

In January 2012 Felix Dennis gave up smoking after 49 years of dedication to the weed.

Rich List 2013: No.15 - Sir David Samworth (£490m)

Tesco
28-01-2013

In June this year, teams of employees, clients and suppliers from Sir David Samworth’s Leicester food supply business will be running, canoeing and cycling around a gruelling course in the Scottish Highlands – all in the cause of charity.

Rich List 2013: No.=16 - John Bloor (£480m)

Business
28-01-2013

It’s been a good couple of years at John Bloor’s Bloor Holdings, due in no small part to the success at home and abroad of Triumph Motorcycles and the recovery of Bloor Homes.

Rich List 2013: No.18 The Mackie family - (£470m)

Armed Forces
28-01-2013

Profits at the Mackie family’s City Electrical Factors Holdings are holding steady.

Rich List 2013: No.=16 - Tony Wilkinson (£480m)

Business
28-01-2013

Tony Wilkinson’s discount Wilkinson Hardware stores has increased its turnover and maintained profitability despite tough times on the High Street.

Rich List 2013: No.19 - Tony Gallagher (£450m)

Business
28-01-2013

Tony Gallagher, through Gallagher Estates and Gallagher Developments, has spent more than three decades accumulating land and property assets.

Rich List 2013: No.20 - Caspar MacDonald Hall (£430m)

Business
28-01-2013

Assets at Kingswinford-based London and Cambridge Properties rose sharply to close on £541.5m in 2010-11, an increase of more than £40 million on the previous year, which was itself £80 million up on the year before that.