10:42 am, April 27, 2015
SIR Arnold Clark remains the richest man in the UK’s car retailing industry, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.
He slipped 18 places down the list to 166th – not that we need to have a whipround, as the paper says the 87-year-old is worth £675m, £1m more than a year ago.
The paper says the richest 1,000 people have seen their worth more than double since 2009.
Last year, Arnold Clark made a record profit of £85.1m on sales of £2.91bn.
Other automotive individuals in the list include Lord Edmiston, the founder of the IM Group, who is 234th with £472m (£10m more than a year ago). IM Group imports Subaru, Isuzu and Great Wall vehicles into the UK.
Sir Peter Vardy is worth £175m – which was not enough to see him force his way into the richest 500 people.
Geoffrey Warren, who owns London’s Car Giant supermarket, is now worth £400m up from £220m a year ago, and enough to see him rise from 421nd in the list last year to 262 this time around.
Jack Tordoff, owner of JCT600, has £368m. That’s £15m more than a year ago, biut he still slipped eight places in the list to 280.
The founder of Euro Car Parts, Sukhpal Singh Ahluwalia, has £300m, enough to place him 340th in the list, while Tony Bramall’s family wealth decreased by £1m to £208m, and he is now 464th on the list.
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