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Steel king Lakshmi Mittal beats Ambani brothers to retain richest Indian crown



By Surojit Chatterjee
17 November 2007 @ 1:08 am IST

New Delhi - Steel tycoon Lakshmi N. Mittal, owner of the world’s largest steel group, ArcelorMittal, has topped the Indian rich list for the fourth year in a row, beating the Reliance brothers - Mukesh and Anil Ambani - with a wealth of $51 billion, popular business and lifestyle magazine Forbes said.


Five richest Indians. (Clockwise from top) Lakshmi Mittal, Azim Premji, K.P. Singh, Anil Ambani and Mukesh Ambani
Five Richest Indians: (Clockwise from top) Lakshmi Mittal, Azim Premji, K.P. Singh, Anil Ambani and Mukesh Ambani. Steel tycoon Lakshmi N. Mittal, owner of the world’s largest steel group, ArcelorMittal, has topped the Indian rich list for the fourth year in a row, beating the Reliance brothers - Mukesh and Anil Ambani - with a wealth of $51 billion, popular business and lifestyle magazine Forbes said.
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According to Forbes’ India’s 40 Richest list for 2007, Mittal, who successfully engineered the merger between the top two steel producers in the world, Mittal Steel and Arcelor Steel Co., last year, has pipped both the Ambani brothers – Mukesh and Anil – to top the rich list, thanks to strong growth in steel demand globally.

However, Mukesh Ambani, who controls India’s largest petrochemical company, Reliance Industries, is not too far behind, with a personal fortune of $49 billion, mainly due to a bull run in the Indian stock market the past two months. Last month, when share prices of Reliance Industries hit a record high, the media speculated whether he had become the richest man in the world surpassing Lakshmi Mittal, investment guru Warren Buffett, Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim Helu and Microsoft founder Bill Gates.

Soon afterwards, Ambani, who is building a 27-storey mansion in Mumbai for his family and this month gave his wife a $60 million Airbus 319 with entertainment cabins, a sky bar and fancy showers as a birthday gift, scoffed the rumours, saying that "it matters little to me whether my personal fortunes are measured in billions or millions."

Mukesh’s estranged brother Anil Ambani, who owns Reliance Communications, India's third-largest mobile operator, was third with a net worth of $45 billion.

At No.4 on the India rich list is entrepreneur Kushal Pal Singh (net worth $35 billion), who has profited from the booming real estate industry in India. His company, DLF Ltd, which was listed in July, is India’s largest real estate developer.

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