The Sunday Times Rich List for 2025 which estimates the personal wealth of the richest at least notionally UK based people suggests that in global Big Beer the personal fortune of the owner of Heineken is doing rather less well than the part owners of ABInBev.
Of course both are public companies so the personal wealth of the owners, while interesting, and concerning to many, does not particularly reflect how Heineken and ABInBev are doing
Charlene De Carvalho-Heineken and Michel De Carvalho have dropped from eighth to fourteenth in the Top 350 with a personal wealth of £11.751bn in 2024 down to £10.09bn in 2025 but still maintaining their 13th place
Meanwhile Alejandro Santiago Domingo and Lady Charlotte Welleseley who are associated with ABInBev have risen from 78th to 61st place with a personal wealth of £2.2bn in 2024 now up to £2.661bn
The Earl of Iveagh and the Guinness Family is at 186 down from 179 with wealth of £916m in 2024 down to £856m in 2025. The Earl also owns the Norfolk Estate that supplies the King’s Christmas tree at Sandringham. Guinness itself of course is owned by Diageo.
Big Beer is still very good business, for the owners anyway
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