The chairman of Adani Groups, Gautam Adani is leading the list of highest wealth addition among all the richest Indians this year. He has even pipped the chairman of Reliance Industries, Mukesh Ambani.
The chairman of Adani Groups, Gautam Adani is leading the list of highest wealth addition among all the richest Indians this year. He has even pipped the chairman of Reliance Industries, Mukesh Ambani.
Adani’s wealth rose to $30.4 billion being the 40th richest person in the world whereas Ambani is soaring at 10th position with $75 billion wealth. As per the data from Bloomberg Billionaire Index, Gautam Adani’s wealth grew by $19.1 billion this year which indirectly shows an increase of 449 crores every day keeping behind Bill Gates in wealth addition for this year.
Meanwhile. Elon Musk of Tesla has seen the highest addition to his wealth from $92 billion to $120 billion so far in 2020 and Jeff Bezos (of Amazon) has increased their wealth by $68 billion.
This surge in Adani’s wealth was possible with the increase in share prices of Adani Green, Adani Enterprises, Adani Gas, Adani Ports and Adani Transmission as it had an amazing jump to 551% rise in 2020.
Gautam Shantilal Adani is an Ahmedabad-based industrialist who once initiated as a commodity trader in 1988 and later on expanded his business to agriculture, energy, aerospace and even defence.
