Bloomberg lists the world’s richest families

The stores chain was founded by Sam Walton nearly seventy years ago. Nowadays, there are over 10,500 stores in the world and the company has $559 billion in revenues. Other top 10 richest families include: •Mars family, owners of confectionery and long-life products manufacturer Mars – $141.9B •Koch family, owners of Koch Industrues – $124.4B: •Hermes family, owners of Hermes – $111.6B; •Saudi royal family Al Saud – $100B; •Ambani family, owners of the Indian oil extraction and refining holding company Reliance Industries – $93.7B; •Wertheimer family, owners of French fashion house Chanel – $61.8B; •Johnson family, owners of US asset management company Fidelity Investments – $61.2B •Thomson family, owners of Thomson Reuters, $61.1B; •Boehringer family, owners of the German pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim – $59.2B. A total of 25 families are in the ranking. They include the Albrecht family, which owns the German discount shop chain Aldi ($51B), the owners of cosmetics brand Estee Lauder ($49.3B), the Mueller family, which owns the French retail giant Auchan ($45.9B), the family owners of BMW Kwandt ($42.3B). According to Bloomberg, the combined wealth of the world’s richest 25 families is $1.7 trillion, up 22% from a year earlier. source: bloomberg.com