The Hurun Research Institute today released the Hurun Global Retail Rich List 2022, a list of the retail billionaires in the world. Wealth is a snapshot of 14 January 2022, drawn from the recently released Hurun Global Rich List 2022.
TOTAL WEALTH OF WORLD'S TOP 100 RETAIL BILLIONAIRES US$1.1TN
USA LEADS WITH 33, FOLLOWED BY CHINA AND GERMANY WITH 13 AND 12
WEALTH HAS GROWN BY AN AVERAGE OF 12% IN PAST YEAR
BEIJING IS THE GLOBAL CAPITAL OF RETAIL ENTREPRENEURS, WITH 5; FOLLOWED BY ESSEN, HAMBURG AND MÜLHEIM IN GERMANY, TOKYO, MUMBAI AND NEW YORK, EACH WITH 3. THREE OF THE TOP 10 CITIES ARE FROM CHINA, INCLUDING DALIAN AND SHANGHAI
AMAZON'S JEFF BEZOS, 58, IS WORLD'S RICHEST RETAILER WITH US$188BN
WALMART HEIRS JIM, 73, ROBSON, 77, AND ALICE WALTON, 72, RANKED SECOND AND EQUAL THIRD WITH US$64BN, US$62BN AND US$62BN, RESPECTIVELY. THE WALTON FAMILY IS RICHEST FAMILY IN WORLD.
ON HURUN GLOBAL RICH LIST 2022, RETAIL RANKED 4TH, WITH A TOTAL OF 249 ENTREPRENEURS, ACCOUNTING FOR 7.4% OF THE LIST
(1 April 2022, Shanghai) The Hurun Research Institute today released the Hurun Global Retail Rich List 2022, a list of the retail billionaires in the world. Wealth is a snapshot of 14 January 2022, drawn from the recently released Hurun Global Rich List 2022.
The threshold for the Hurun Global Retail Rich List 2022 is US$2.7bn, and the total wealth of the world's top 100 entrepreneurs in the retail industry is US$1134bn. They come from 26 countries. The average age is 67 years old, 3 years older than the average age of the Hurun Global Rich List.
This is a brief English language summary of the original Chinese-language press release. For the full list and release, see www.hurun.net.
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