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The United States has the largest number of millionaires among its residents. Moreover, their fortunes often depend on large multinational corporations that they themselves founded. According to the
The United States has the largest number of millionaires among its residents. Moreover, their fortunes often depend on large multinational corporations that they themselves founded.
According to the 2023 Global Wealth Report Credit SuisseThere are only 1,018 millionaires in Spain, belonging to 1% of the millionaire elite. Forbes Every year, it publishes the official list of these people, including their names and surnames. These Spain’s biggest fortune in 2024.
According to the latest update of the Spanish version of the Forbes list dated November 2023, the largest fortunes in Spain are in the hands of founders of large multinational companies or top executives from the banking, industry and large construction sectors.
The top positions of the list have been monopolized by the same names for years; There are slight differences in the amount of wealth among the top 10 of this list of millionaires.
The founder of Inditex is the richest man in Spain and the thirteenth largest fortune in the world by estimated wealth. More than 95,820 million euros. Amancio Ortega’s main source of wealth is the shares the mogul owns in Inditex.
According to data from CNMV (National Securities Market Commission), the majority of Inditex’s shares belong to Amancio Ortega, who owns 59.29% of the shares. This percentage, in addition to the share price, gives Amancio Ortega annual dividends of around 4.8 billion euros.
100% of these Inditex dividends go to Pontegadea, the investment vehicle the millionaire created to channel into real estate and energy investments. This billion-dollar annual investment has made Pontegadea the largest real estate agency in Spain due to investment volume.
Spain’s second fortune comes from his shareholding in Inditex, where he is the second largest shareholder of the company (after his father) with a 4.5% stake. Sandra Ortega Mera is Amancio Ortega’s eldest daughter from his first marriage, but she is not actively connected to the management of Inditex.
Forbes Evaluating Sandra Ortega’s wealth approximately 10,000 million euros, positioning herself as Spain’s second-largest individual fortune and richest woman. Like her father, Sandra Ortega Mera is using the financial leverage provided by Inditex dividends to invest in Rosp Corunna, a company dedicated to buying buildings and resorts and then renting them to major hotel chains. She is also a shareholder of the pharmaceutical company PharmaMar, controlling 4.5% of its shares.
The joint wealth of the five members of the Del Pino Calvo-Sotelo family is over 12 billion 275 million euros. Its main representative is Rafael del Pino Calvo-Sotelo, who plays his role. chairman of Ferrovial and the main shareholder, succeeding his father and company founder Rafael del Pino Moreno, who died in 2008 and left an inheritance of more than 6.5 billion euros.
In addition to his role as head of one of the country’s leading public works construction companies, Rafael del Pino also invests in other sectors and companies through his holding company Rijn Capital. The estimated total of his wealth is: 5.9 billion euros.
The banking sector has been very active over the last decade, but that hasn’t stopped names like Juan Carlos Escotet from being at the top of Spain’s wealthiest fortunes.
The banker of Spanish-Venezuelan origin, who lives in Galicia, is the chairman and main shareholder of Abanca and holds 84.75% of its shares. Most of the funds come from the banking institution. 4 billion euros where his fortune is estimated. Abanca is the majority shareholder of the Deportivo de la Coruña organization, which he uses as the executive arm of the food company Nueva Pescanova and its social contribution to the province.
Juan Roig is one of the country’s best-known businessmen, thanks to the tremendous success of the Mercadona supermarket chain, of which he is president and the main shareholder with a 50.66% stake. Born as a family meat company, the supermarket chain expanded rapidly in the early 2000s. Currently Mercadona is valued at €7.739 million.
In 2023, Juan Roig received a gross salary of 12 million euros as president of the company, as well as dividends of just over 108 million euros for being Mercadona’s largest shareholder. Juan Roig’s wealth is estimated at approx. 5.9 billion euros.
It has a low profile and its activities are reserved for the business community. The wealth he values More than 3,500 million eurosIt comes from the company General de Galerías Comerciales, one of the main Spanish groups in the shopping center industry.
Tomás Olivo is the largest shareholder of the group with 99.58% and all his wealth comes from here. The commercial investor became a shareholder of Unicaja in 2023 and took over 9% of the bank’s shares.
Unlike other millionaires who make up the list of Spain’s largest fortunes, Daniel Maté owes his fortune not to the companies he founded or manages, but to the investments and returns these companies provide him. Forbes he values his wealth approximately 3,160 million euros.
The investor owns a 3% stake in the Swiss mining company Glencore, the world’s leading private company dedicated to the purchase and sale of raw materials and food. Maté is responsible for the company’s zinc production, a market where Glencore controls 60% of global production.
Juan Abelló is the son of the pharmacist who founded the Abelló Chemical and Pharmaceutical Products Factory, known as Spain’s first antibiotic company, in 1949. Although he started his career in his father’s company and became a doctor in pharmacy, Juan’s career became more connected with investments through the company Abelló, Torreal.
Abelló’s fortune is estimated to be: approximately 2,900 million euros14.83% of this was invested in the stock market. He is known to own more than 41,276 hectares of land in Spain, as well as a valuable art collection that includes important works by Miró, Van Gogh, Renoir, Kandinsky, Goya, Rafael, Rembrandt, Zurbarán, Murillo and El Greco.
Leopoldo del Pino Calvo-Sotelo, as his surname suggests, is the brother of Ferrovial’s current chairman and Ferrovial’s main shareholder. Leopoldo controls 4,154% of the company founded by his father through the Siemprelara holding company and has taken over part of the company.
With an estimated fortune 2.7 billion eurosThe main source of his wealth is not Ferrovial, but the millionaire’s investments through his SICAVs.
If we opened the top 10 fortunes in Spain with the founder of a textile company, we can’t put a better finishing touch on the list of Spanish millionaires than with the co-founder of another major textile multinational: Mango, worth around $100,000. 1.8 billion euros.
Isak Andiç, who is Turkish by birth and Spanish due to Sephardic origin, was the founding partner of the Mango fashion brand. His fortune is estimated approximately 2.7 billion euros.
The billionaire living in Barcelona is passionate about the sea as the owner of a sailboat worth 30 million euros. Nirvana Formentera, 53 meters long, docked at Barcelona marina. Andic also has a private jet for which he paid 32 million euros and uses Mango for his corporate travels. A big fan of skiing, the millionaire is a regular at the Baqueira-Beret resort in the Catalan Pyrenees, where he has a huge mansion where he spends winter weekends.
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