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Do you know who the richest woman in the world is? Do you know who the richest female billionaire in China is?
A lifetime of wealth without worry is not only a man's dream, but also a woman's pursuit.
Recently, the Hurun Research Institute released the 2022 Hurun Global Rich List, and in the list, there are many women.
Among them, the threshold for entry is as high as 20 billion US dollars, and one of the world's top ten female richest women has made the list.
So, who are these ten top female billionaires? What are the companies they represent?
Who is this Chinese rich woman, today I will take you to find out.
Introduction of the world's richest woman
In the first place, the richest woman in the world, her business is the giant of cosmetics, she is Osie Betancourt Mayer.
She is ranked 13th on François, the founder of the Leyard Group and granddaughter of Eugène Schuler. The wealth it has reached more than 500 billion yuan.
L'Oréal is firmly ranked as the world's number one beauty brand, and its marketing volume is even more than that of companies such as Estée Lauder and Procter & Gamble combined.
Not only this year, as early as 2018, Françoise ranked seventeenth with a wealth of $46 billion.
In 2019, the Forbes Global Billionaires List ranked fifteenth, ranking first among the female richest people.
Today, L'Oréal has been in the Chinese market for more than 20 years, and China has become L'Oréal's second largest market in the world.
Its brands such as L'Oréal Paris, Coyen's, Lancôme, Helena and other brands are well-known around the world and have always been loved by female consumers.
With the development of e-commerce in recent years, the sales volume of L'Oréal products has increased year by year, and during the annual Double Eleven period, L'Oréal's brands have rushed into the top ten lists of Tmall for several consecutive years.
Last year, L'Oréal's gross profit margin was as high as 73.88%, and the annual revenue was about 227 billion yuan.
Françoise owns about 27.5% of L'Oréal's shares, and its revenue has risen year by year.
As far as the current revenue data of L'Oréal Group is concerned, Françoise may sit for a long time in the position of the world's first female richest man.
Second place, Alice Walton.
As you can see from her name, she is from the famous Walton family, and Alice is the eldest daughter of Sam Walton, the founder of the Walmart Group.
In March 2022, she ranked 20th on the Hurun Rich List with a wealth of 390 billion yuan and the second richest woman in the world.
Walmart is the world's largest retailer, with nearly 8,000 stores, two million employees alone, and annual sales of $400 billion.
On the rich list, the Walton family climbed several places, and the wealth of the entire family reached $190 billion.
Alice has been concerned about charitable donations while harvesting many possessions, especially in education.
The Walton family once donated $300 million to the University of Arkansas, setting a record for the highest donation received by a public university in the United States.
Not only that, but the Walton family also ranks second in the number of political donations in the United States, all of which depend on the development of Walmart enterprises.
The third rich woman is Mackenzie. Scott. She is the world's richest man, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who ranks 22nd on the Hurun Rich List with a wealth of 385 billion.
Also known as the most influential woman in the world, MacKenzie helped her husband start the Amazon Group in the 1990s, and later after divorcing her husband, MacKenzie got a quarter of Amazon's shares.
MacKenzie would have owned at least half of Amazon's property, but out of 25 years of marriage, MacKenzie allowed her ex-husband to keep the position of the world's richest man, and if it were not for MacKenzie's concessions, Jeff Bezos would not be the richest man in the world today.
A quarter of Amazon's stake is also enough to make MacKenzie's wealth the third richest woman.
MacKenzie's biggest headache every day is how to spend his money.
To that end, she has donated a total of $5.8 billion to more than 500 non-profit organizations across the United States over the past few years, and she also topped the list of charitable organizations in the United States.
MacKenzie has said he will continue to do charity until the safe is empty.
Mackenzie did not attach a condition of recognition when making a donation.
This shows that each recipient of the donation can dispose of these funds at its own disposal, which is undoubtedly a great gift for the institution.
MacKenzie famously said, "Generosity leads to more generosity, and sharing leads to more wealth." ”
It is with this mentality that Mackenzie was able to spread the reputation of Amazon's enterprises.
Fourth was Julia Koch. Her main source of property is also the inheritance of her husband's property.
She and her family have a fortune of $46.4 billion, and Koch Industries is the highest-paid private company in the United States.
It is also currently the world's largest unlisted company.
Among the world's most well-known private companies, Koch's history is relatively short, only more than 60 years old.
However, Koch has also single-handedly surpassed Kohler and Cargill, which have a history of more than 100 years.
The main core of Koch's industry is petroleum and chemicals, Koch's predecessor was developed from a refinery, and today's ability to grow such a large enterprise is mainly due to market acquisitions.
In 1999, Koch began to enter the Chinese market and opened Koch Materials in China.
The main business is asphalt, and 8 asphalt products co., LTD. have been established in Guangzhou, Xi'an, Tianjin and other places, accounting for nearly half of the parts of China's asphalt market.
Fifth, Jacqueline Mars. With a wealth of 250 billion yuan, she ranked 32nd on the Hurun rich list. Mars corporation under its name is a giant in the confectionery industry.
The world's largest confectionery company, among which the beloved Chinese dove chocolate, M&M's chocolate beans, Snickers and other brands are from Mars.
Forrest Mars, the founder of Mars, has a strict management style.
He once created the five principles of company management: quality, responsibility, mutual benefit, efficiency and efficiency, and has also been emulated by many companies.
Mars has been associated with China since the 1970s, when some of the raw materials used by Mars were sourced in China.
In 1993, Mars established a chocolate factory in Beijing and five branches across the country.
In recent years, the confectionery produced by Mars Company has frequently been exposed to food safety problems.
In 2016, a German consumer complained of eating plastic fragments in a Snickers rack.
Not long ago in July, U.S. consumers sued Mars, saying that the amount of titanium dioxide in the rainbow sugar it produced exceeded the standard.
It can be said that the future development of Mars Group also needs to strictly control food safety issues.
The sixth place, Miriam Adelson, ranked 48th in the 2022 Hurun Global Rich List with 170 billion yuan, and its company Vegas Sands Group, mainly engaged in hotels, casinos, resorts and other businesses.
In the list of the world's 500 most valuable brands released in 2020, Las Vegas Sands group ranked 478th.
Miriam is the second wife of Sands founder Alderson, whose family holds nearly 57 percent of Sands' shares, and miriam's son-in-law is the company's chief financial officer.
Seventh, Gina Reinhardt, with a wealth of 170 billion yuan, ranked 48th in the 2022 Hurun Global Rich List with Sands Group.
Born in Australia, Gina inherited the sluggish mining company Hancock Exploration Company from her father 20 years ago.
But she single-handedly brought the company back to life and earned herself a net worth of $18 billion, once approaching the world's richest man, known as Australia's richest woman.
Gina has three major ore projects in her name, and if all of them are put into operation, the annual profit alone can reach as high as $10 billion.
And she also holds all the shares of Hancock Exploration Company, does not need to share benefits with shareholders, so the assets are abundant, and the future development is very promising.
Next, let's take a look at the story of Yang Huiyan, a Chinese female billionaire.
China's first female billionaire
The eighth is Yang Huiyan, a rich woman from China. With a wealth of 165 billion yuan, she ranked 55th in the Hurun rich list, and her company is Country Garden, a well-known real estate enterprise in China.
Yang Huiyan's net worth last year was as high as 185 billion yuan, which is the first female richest woman in China, and Yang Huiyan can become a rich man because she took over Country Garden.
According to statistics, in 2021, Country Garden's operating income will be about 462.9 billion yuan, and its net profit will be about 61.2 billion yuan.
Since childhood, Yang Huiyan's family conditions have been very superior, and his father Yang Guoqiang has trained her as the successor of Country Garden, so his requirements for her are very strict.
When she graduated from junior high school, Yang Huiyan was sent to the United Kingdom by her father to study.
Studying in the UK as a teenager, Yang Huiyan has experienced many hardships and has also honed her independent and self-reliant character.
Although the family conditions are very superior, Yang Huiyan still insists on work-study during her studies, earns her own living expenses, and rarely accepts family financial support.
After graduating from high school, Yang Huiyan was successfully admitted to Ohio State University in the United States with excellent results. After the completion of the university, Yang Guoqiang could not wait to arrange Yang Huiyan to work in Country Garden.
However, in order to train her daughter, her father arranged her in the grass-roots business department.
Yang Huiyan under the guidance of her father, slowly began to work on the company's affairs, after a period of exercise, Yang Guoqiang saw that Yang Huiyan gradually adapted to work, and did a good job, let her formally accept Bichun Garden, deal with some important affairs.
Not long after Yang Huiyan took over Country Garden, she was very dissatisfied with the company's management model and wanted to start changing.
However, it is not said that it can be changed, yang Huiyan consulted the management team in the United States for this purpose, and learned a lot of experience from them.
Later, it took less than two years to keep the management and governance of Country Garden in an orderly manner, and Yang Guoqiang was also assured that the company's affairs would be fully handled by his daughter.
In 2006, prior to country garden's listing, Yang Huiyan served as an executive director of Country Garden Group.
In 2007, after Country Garden's listing, its market value reached more than 100 billion Hong Kong dollars, and the 26-year-old received all the shares of Country Garden, becoming the largest shareholder of Country Garden and a new generation of mainland rich people in China.
Since then, Yang Huiyan's wealth has made her the richest woman in Forbes China six times.
Yang Huiyan's success in her career is inseparable from her ability and sense of social responsibility, as a rich second generation, most people directly inherit the family's jiangshan, but do not work hard and sit on the mountain.
Yang Huiyan, on the other hand, has been very low-key since she was a child, doing big things in a muffled voice, never showing off the wealth she has at home, and rarely accepting media interviews, so that there are very few photos about her.
Not only is she very low-key in managing the company, Yang Huiyan also keeps a low-key charity.
In the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, Yang Huiyan's company was seriously damaged, and in the case of difficult development of her own capital, Yang Huiyan also took the lead in donating 10 million yuan to the reconstruction of the disaster area.
Such a large amount of money, resting on other rich people, has long been hyped up, but Yang Huiyan has not done any publicity.
In Yang Huiyan's heart, she and the company's development can not be separated from the support of the motherland, so in the case of her own ability, she is willing to donate her money to places in need.
Over the years, the amount of Yang Huiyan's donation has been about one billion yuan, and such a caring entrepreneur has also been recognized by people from all walks of life.
Nowadays, due to the impact of the epidemic, the turnover of Country Garden enterprises has declined, but this is the impact of the general environment, Country Garden still ranks first in the domestic real estate industry, and it is still very impressive in terms of business coverage and development.
The real estate projects developed by Country Garden have spread to 31 provinces and 289 prefecture-level cities in the mainland, and there are many businesses in counties and townships.
Country Garden alone accounts for more than 50% of the mainland's real estate market, and in the subsequent development, the assets of Country Garden Enterprises and Yang Huiyan will increase.
The identity of China's first female richest man may last for a long time.
The remaining two rich men, one of whom was a rich woman, had an extraordinary relationship with Jobs. Who is she?
A common feature of the rich
The ninth place, Elaine Marshall, with a wealth of 140 billion yuan, ranked 73rd in the Hurun rich list. Her company, like the company of Julia, the fourth richest woman in the world, is Koch.
Her fortune was inherited from her father, J. Howard Marshall II, holding a 14.6% stake in Koch Industries.
Compared with Julia, Elaine's property is not as good as Julia's, but she can also have her own name on the world's richest women list, which shows the strength of Koch's industry.
Koch Industries has been shortlisted for three of the top 100 of the 2022 Hurun Global Rich List, and its strength should not be underestimated.
Tenth, Lorena Powell Jobs. With a wealth of 140 billion yuan, she is the 73rd richest person in Hurun with Elaine. She is the wife of Apple founder Steve Jobs.
Jobs is one of the greatest men of his time, and for Jobs, the person who had the greatest influence on him was his wife, Lorena.
Lorena was once called a soul mate by Jobs, and has been silently supporting him during jobs's lows, provoking a beam for him, it can be said that without Lorena's support, there would be no development of the Apple industry today.
At the time of Jobs's death, Laurena inherited $16.7 billion from her husband, and on the 2012 Forbes Rich List, Laurel was the richest woman in Silicon Valley.
Owning property was not Laurena's goal, and not long after becoming a recognized rich woman, Lorena said that she would donate all her property naked, even her own descendants would not leave it.
Lorena said: "Like my husband, I have no interest in accumulating wealth, and personally having a lot of wealth is a disadvantage for myself and society. ”
So she used the wealth she earned from half her life with her husband for investment or charity, which led to Laurena, who could have been at the top of the world's richest list, now in 73rd place.
Most of Lorena's donations are for education, providing bursaries for children who cannot afford to go to school, and also setting up scholarship mechanisms at universities, and as of 2019, Lorena's set of funds has helped more than 2,000 students.
The above is the top ten female rich people in the 2022 Hurun Rich List, who have proved with their strength that women are not worse than men and can also become the richest people in the world.
From their experiences, it is not difficult to find some commonalities. We can summarize this as follows.
First: the source of wealth of these female rich people is divided into two categories, wealth inheritance, and their own earnings, and inevitably, wealth inheritance accounts for the majority.
However, without the support of strength, I believe they will not be able to reach such a position as they are today. It is not difficult to have money, the difficulty is how to always have money, so they can withstand such doubts.
Second, their wealth is inseparable from the support of enterprises, and among the enterprises owned by these ten rich women, they basically involve the most basic and important enterprises in the world.
Industry, science and technology, real estate, mining, etc., the development of these enterprises is easy to produce wealth.
Third, they have almost all been on the rich list more than once, which shows that the rich are not created out of thin air, which is a very long process.
Some people can only be on the list once in their lifetime, and some people can't get on the list once in their lifetime, and this is the problem of strength.
And the rich list is constantly changing, everyone may be replaced by people with higher incomes at any time, but there are always companies that can always be at the top of the list, it is normal to have changes, and it is difficult to persist.
Most of these rich women are engaged in charity or investment, in their eyes, money does not have to be held tightly in their hands, to make good use of wealth, in order to bring greater wealth to themselves.
As Ma Yun said, "I have no interest in money", perhaps the rich have lost interest in money after having a lot of wealth, but this realm is not something that ordinary people can achieve.
epilogue
These ten female rich people are only representative references, does not mean that women's development needs to rely on these, compared to men, women have fewer opportunities in career development, but female entrepreneurs will not shrink back.
Only by mastering wealth and status can we have the right to speak. This has been the case for a long time, and I believe that with the increase in female entrepreneurs in society, more women will be on the list of the rich in the future.