The 2018 ranking of the biggest professional fortunes of Occitanie



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23 years ago, the business magazine Challenges established, year after year, the ranking of the largest professional fortunes in France.

These estimates identify the group of professional badets, listed and / or unlisted, but do not take into account personal property (real estate, cars, works of art …).

However, the wealth of the richest, that the magazine estimates at 650 billion euros in 2018, has, according to him, tripled in 10 years

Our region does not escape this phenomenon

Occitanie's first fortune, in the 30th place in France: Mohed Altrad, patron of the eponymous group based in Montpellier. The president of the Montpellier rugby club moved from 36th place in 2017 to 30th place in 2018. His fortune is estimated at 3.3 billion.

The second regional fortune occupies the 77th place in France. These are the Chapoulard and Gervoson families, headed by Andros . With a fortune of 1.2 billion, the Lot group based in Biars-sur-Cère went from 71st to 77th place.

Third fortune of Occitania, the Catalan Marie Farines, leader of the hotel group Privilèges . At a price of 600 million euros, his fortune goes from 154th to 153rd place in France.

Perpignan chocolate maker Patrick Poirier (chocolates Cémoi), 4th fortune of Occitanie with 500 millon 'euros, ranks 180th French professional fortune (183e in 2017).

In 5th regional position, the CEO of the group Figeac-Aero, Jean-Claude Maillard, whose fortune is estimated at 425 million d'euros, occupies the 209th place in France.

It is followed by Toulousain Olivier Sadran, 6th fortune of Occitanie . At the head of the collective catering group Newrest, the president of Toulouse Football Club lost 16 places in the national ranking, rising from 236th place in 2017 to 252nd in 2018.

7th fortune of Occitanie, the Toulouse Philippe and Pierre-Georges Chausson, directors of Chausson Matériaux BTP . Fortune: 330 million euros. They pbad from the 280th place in 2017 to the 276th in 2018.

In 8th regional position, Ludovic Le Moan and Christophe Fourtet, the founders of the start-up Sigfox, become global giant of connected objects , located near Toulouse Labège, make their entry among the 500 largest professional fortunes in France, in 341st place, with 250 million euros.

Finally, 9th fortune of Occitania, Nicollin family (at the head of one of the biggest French actors of the treatment of the waste and the urban cleanliness), whose cadet Laurent directs Montpellier Hérault football, shares the 473th place with Régis Dumange, president of Nevers (Pro D2) with 150 million euros of fortune.

Bernard Arnault remains 1st fortune of France

The cumulated amount of the 500 biggest fortunes of France has been multiplied by three in ten years, reaching a record of 650 billion euros, according to the ranking 2018 of the magazine Challenges published Thursday, and still dominated by Bernard Arnault.

The cumulative wealth of the richest of France represents nearly 30% of the country's GDP in 2018, compared with 10% in 2009, after the financial crisis.

The 650 billion represent "a ceiling never reached yet", note the weekly, which states that this amount "increased by 13% in one year."

At the top of the ranking, we find for the second year in a row Bernard Arnault, owner of luxury group LVMH, and his family . Their 73.2 billion euros fortune is the first in Europe and the fourth in the world.

With 40 billion euros, Alain and Gerard Wertheimer, the two owners of Chanel, go from 6th to 2nd place after the recent revelation of the consolidated results
of the group which, after years of discretion, has announced it had made sales of 8.3 billion euros last year.

Then follow the fortunes of the Hermès family, which includes the manager of the group Axel Dumas (39.6 billion), almost on a par with Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers, the owner of the L'Oréal group (39.3 billion).

In fifth and sixth positions, we find Gérard Mulliez for the Auchan group (38 billion) and François Pinault (luxury group Kering, 30.5 billion).

The manager of the telecommunications and media group Altice – recently mistreated on the stock market – Patrick Drahi, suffered one of the biggest falls (-48%) and lost four places to be ranked 12th.

Xavier Niel, founder of the group Iliad (Free), also out of the top 10.

New personalities are appearing in the ranking, as Sadri Fegaier, leader of the company SFAM, specialized in insurance of the means of payment, which integrates 71st place with a valuation to 1.4 billion euros.

"The number of euro billionaires in our ranking reached, for the first time since 1996, the hundred," says the magazine that states that "they were three times fewer than ten years ago."

"In a decade, the wealth of the 500 Fortunes of our rankings has increased by 140%, when the outstanding savings of the French in the livret A has grown by only 35%," concludes the weekly economic .

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