640= £ 177 m ■
KHOO KAY PENG
Retailing, hotels and food 2016: £197m, 546=SIR PETER VARDY AND FAMILY
Car salesVardy, 70, took over the family’s Sunderland car dealership in
1976, making £144m from its 2006 sale, before backing a new car
business founded by his son Peter. This operation, which has
assets of £44.7m , is worth £70m. Vardy established the charity
Safe Families for Children UK and his foundation has given more
than £10m to worthy causes since 2011. 2016: £170m, 612=643= £ 176 m ■
BRIAN CONLON
Business services 2016: £127m, 796=SIR PHILIP NAYLOR-LEYLAND
Land and art 2016: £175m, 598=ANTHONY PRESTON AND FAMILY
Pet shopsPreston, 62, opened his first Pets at Home store in Chester in- He sold 62% to a private equity firm in 2004, banking £60m,
then made £85m in another sale. He invested in the Manchester-
based Kids Allowed nursery and childcare chain, where assets
rose to more than £5.2m over the past year. 2016: £184m, 572=646= £ 175 m ■
ROBIN CLARK AND FAMILY
Property 2016: £135m, 754=DAVID COFFER
Property 2016: £170m, 612=NOEL HAYDEN
GamblingHayden, 46, spent his childhood designing games on his Tandy
TRS-80 computer. Having sold a gaming company for £7m, he
set up bingo and casino website Gamesys. He and his family
owned about 35% of the £225m Piccadilly-based operation when
it sold several of its titles in 2015 for £426m. 2016: £150m, 685=MARK HILLERY
Hedge fundA star trader at London fund Brevan Howard until his departure
in 2015, Hillery, 51, paid £5m for a New York penthouse belonging
to the television star Oprah Winfrey in 2012. 2016: £175m, 598=MICHAEL HUNT AND FAMILY
Car sales and property 2016: £154m, 677=JEREMY ISAACS
Commodities 2016: £175m, 598=ANDREW MARR AND FAMILY
FisheriesAndrew Marr International has interests in fish trading, storage
and processing. The Hull-based business, which is run by Marr,
75, and largely family-owned, is worth £160m. 2016: £122m, 825=CHARLES MONTANARO AND FAMILY
Finance 2016: £125m, 799=DAVID ROBERTS AND FAMILY
Property and artThe son of a Clydeside shipyard worker, art collector Roberts, 60,
has overseen property deals worth £3bn. He is best known for his
David Roberts Art Foundation with its north London gallery. He is
married to Lithuanian artist Indre Serpytyte. 2016: £180m, 582=HUGH SLOANE
Hedge fund 2016: £175m, 598=JOE WALKER AND FAMILY
BiscuitsThe Walker family, led by Joe, 79, has been making shortbread
since 1898 when Joseph Walker used a £50 loan to open a
bakery. Speyside-based Walkers Shortbread had £139.4m sales
in 2015, while company profits rose to £12m. 2016: £162m, 636=ROBERT WORSLEY
Land 2016: £175m, 598=658 £ 174 m ■
BEN AND JOS WHITE
TechnologyThe White brothers are hi-tech entrepreneurs. Ben, 49, invents
and Jos, 47, turns his sibling’s ideas into businesses. They sold
three companies for nearly £500m and their London-based
Notion Capital had £39.5m assets last year. 2016: £164m, 633=659= £ 172 m ■
TERENCE MORDAUNT
DocksMaster mariner Mordaunt, 69, is chairman of Bristol Port
Company, which operates the city’s 140-year-old docks. He andRich List 2017 501-750
Among his £40m worth of classic cars ,
Dudding has 23 Aston Martin Lagondas, a
1918 Hispano-Suiza and a 1937 SS Jaguar,
recently used in the BBC drama SS-GB.
Dudding, 79, known as “Mr Lock-Up” for
his ownership of more than 14,000
garages, is expanding into a new
warehouse to house his 380 cars and
motorcycles, which run from a 1911
Vulcan to a 2014 Rolls-Royce Wraith.
His garage empire came about by
accident when in 1975 a friend suggested
he buy a block of lock-ups in south
London. He realised nobody treated the
business seriously. Single-handedly hechanged all that. He also owns several
hundred retail units, more than 100 flats
and a range of commercial mews
properties. “My strategy is to buy for
long-term investment or rental income,”
he says. “Then look at that block of
garages for development opportunities .”
His lock-ups across 1,000 sites have
been valued at more than £120m.
Dudding was an engineering apprentice
at Chatham dockyard in the mid-1950s
before going into business. In 1970 he
launched Lonsto , which installs queue
and ticketing management systems for
banks and shops. 2016: £170m, 612=623= £ 180 m £ 10 m ▲
RODGER DUDDING
Property“Sometimes
a good week
could be
measured
on whether
we had sold
a parrot or
not”
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