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Net worth ()Source of wealth Hinduja family: 22 billion: Industry and finance Jim Ratcliffe: 18.2 billion: Chemicals Leonard Blavatnik: 14.4 billion: Investment, music and media
Sunday Times Rich List 2006–2007 was published by A & C Black in December 2006 (ISBN 978-0713679410). Sunday Times Rich List 2007–2008 was due to be published by A & C Black in November 2007 (ISBN 978-0713685152) but no book appeared due to a deadlock between the publishers and The Sunday Times. The publisher was keen to carry on but only ...
This list is based on the Forbes Global 2000, which ranks the world's 2,000 largest publicly traded companies.The Forbes list takes into account a multitude of factors, including the revenue, net profit, total assets and market value of each company; each factor is given a weighted rank in terms of importance when considering the overall ranking.
In 2007, the UK had the world's third largest current account deficit, due mainly to a large deficit in manufactured goods. In May 2008, the IMF advised the UK government to broaden the scope of fiscal policy to promote external balance. [89] The UK's output per hour worked was on a par with the average for the "old" EU-15 countries. [90]
The pharmaceutical industry employs around 67,000 people in the UK and in 2007 contributed £8.4 billion to the UK's GDP and invested a total of £3.9 billion in research and development. [ 113 ] [ 114 ] In 2007 exports of pharmaceutical products from the UK totalled £14.6 billion, creating a trade surplus in pharmaceutical products of £4.3 ...
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The Sunday Times Rich List 2020 is the 32nd annual survey of the wealthiest people resident in the United Kingdom, published by The Sunday Times on 17 May 2020. [1] The list was edited by Robert Watts who succeeded long-term compiler Philip Beresford in 2017. The list was previewed in the previous week's Sunday Times and widely reported by ...
The UK is the best site in Europe for wind energy, and its wind power production is its fastest-growing supply. In 2021, the UK was the world's 14th-largest consumer of energy and the 22nd-largest producer. [328] The UK is home to many large energy companies, including two of the six major oil and gas companies – BP and Shell. [329]