Adani is a first-generation entrepreneur, and the Adani Group comprises seven publicly listed entities with businesses spanning energy, ports and logistics, mining and resources, gas, defence and aerospace and airports.
New Delhi: Adani Group’s chairman Gautam Adani is now the world’s third-richest person after overtaking France’s Bernard Arnault, reported Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
With a total net worth of $137.4 billion, 60-year-old Gautam Adani has surpassed the wealth of Louis Vuitton chairman Arnault and is now just behind Tesla CEO Elon Musk and former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in the ranking.
In the latest Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani stands at number 11, with a total of $91.9 billion.
This is the first time an Asian person has made it into the top three of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The index is a daily ranking of the world’s richest people. Details about the calculations are provided in the net worth analysis on each billionaire’s profile page. The figures are updated at the close of every trading day in New York.
The net worth of Space X founder Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos is currently at $251 billion and $153 billion, respectively.
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Adani is a first-generation entrepreneur, and the Adani Group comprises seven publicly listed entities with businesses spanning energy, ports and logistics, mining and resources, gas, defence and aerospace and airports.
The Adani Group is India’s third largest conglomerate ( Reliance Industries being 2nd and the Tata Group being the first and the oldest).
Listed Adani group companies are Adani Enterprises, Adani Green Energy, Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone, Adani Power, Adani Total Gas, and Adani Transmission.
Over the past five years, flagship company Adani Enterprises has invested heavily in new growth sectors, including airports, cement, copper refining, data centres, green hydrogen, petrochemical refining, roads and solar cell manufacturing.
Looking ahead, it plans to foray into the telecom space and has massive plans to grow its green hydrogen and airports businesses.
Off late, the group also announced plans to set up a 4.1 mtpa integrated alumina refinery and a 30 mtpa iron ore beneficiation plant in Odisha that could cost over ₹ 580 billion.
As corporate social responsibility towards the community, the Adani Group had decided to contribute ₹ 60,000 crore towards charitable activities related to healthcare, education, and skill development, focussing especially on rural India, he told shareholders at the group’s Annual General Meeting held in july this year.
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