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From The Sunday Times
April 27, 2008

Jim Ratcliffe
James Ratcliffe of Ineos Chemicals Group

RESULTS FOR 2008
Ranking: 25
Worth: £2,300m
Source of wealth: Chemicals

From his modest base in the New Forest, Ratcliffe, 55, runs Ineos, a chemical firm with 17,000 staff in 17 countries. Ineos spent more than £500m last year buying chemical plants from Norsk Hydro and assets from BP. With hefty borrowings, an economic slowdown, higher energy costs and more competition from the Middle East, we cut Ineos’s value sharply to £2.5 billion . That leaves Ratcliffe’s stake at about £2.3 billion.

RESULTS FOR 2007
Ranking: 10
Worth: £3,300m
Source of wealth: Chemicals

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