province Alicante manages to survive sole representative In the list prepared every year by the magazine Forbes with the hundred largest fortunes in the country. A classification once again led by the largest shareholder of the Inditex groupAmancio Ortegawhich also increased his wealth by up to 53% and was welcomed overall. Eight representatives from the entire Valencian Community.
The autonomy thus ranks fourth with the most large fortunes, after Catalonia, where 29 of the 29 people on the list reside; Madrid, with 28 points; and Galicia, with nine large estates. Total, The hundred richest Spaniards accumulate 196 billion 130 million euros. some exceeded the same last year by 37%or despite the war in Ukraine and the effects of inflation caused by the conflict.
As for the representation of the province, the only Alicante that managed to enter and in fact repeated in the list is the owner of the Baleària shipping company. Adolfo Utor, To whom does the publication attribute a fortune? 350 million euros. really? 50 million more allowed it to rise five places in the rankings compared to last year and Go from 96 to 91. Of course, it remains below the 88 points it achieved in the 2019 edition, where it appeared for the first time.
Forbes attributes this increase in Utor’s assets to: billing improvement The experience of the shipping company in the last financial year, Earned €563 million in revenue after 42% growth We are definitely leaving behind the effects of the epidemic, which especially hit the figures of companies related to the tourism sector. In fact, the decline in the shipping company’s income caused the Alicante businessman to leave the list in 2020 and 2021.
Valencian Community
As for the other Valencians who are part of this selected club, Juan Roig Although it has dropped one place, it is the one that occupies the highest place. Specifically, Mercadona’s chairman and largest shareholder ranks fifth by total shareholding. Estimated assets of 3,900 million euros, That’s about 500 million more than the figure the magazine attributed to itself in the previous edition of the list.
The next representative of the Valencian Community is his wife. Hortensia HerreroIt owns 27% of the supermarket chain. Herrero falls four places to 15th place this year, despite his wealth increasing by nearly 300 million euros. 2.2 billion.
From China to fertility clinics
The owner of the tile factory is among the hundred richest people in the country. pamesa, Fernando RoigRanked 28th with 1.3 billion euros; founder Valencian Infertility Institute (IVI) Antonio Pellicer, After the sale of the clinic chain to the KKR fund at the beginning of this year, its asset size reached 900 million; or its main shareholder porcelanosis, Asuncion MazanetIt ranks 66th with 585 million euros.
Likewise, it appears at position 86 Javier Gómez Trenor and his family will receive 400 million euros for their participation Coca-Cola Europe Pacific Partnersone of the largest bottlers of the popular soft drink. Finally, the existence of the Valencians ends with the shipowner and president of the Valencian Businessmen’s Association. Vicente BoludaIt ranks 95th with 350 million euros. His company currently represents the world’s largest tugboat group.