5.De Rijcke Family – $2.5 billion
Well, bring a family together and they are unstoppable! At least that’s how the members of the De Rijcke family built an empire together!
You don’t usually hear about the success of a whole family at the news, usually there’s only one member that stands alone. There are many powerful families out there though that stood away from the spotlight and got insanely rich. Maybe that’s the smartest way to do it.
One of those is the De Rijcke family that is a very respected name in the Netherlands. Want to know how they became billionaires? One simple answer: retail chains!
De Rijcke family is the former owner of three international retail chains: Groenwoudt supermarkets, Superdrug and Kruidvat drugstores and ICI Paris XL perfumery stores.
After selling the retail chains, they continued to increase their fortune through investment activities by working with De Hoge Dennen investment company.
