Yorkshire Rich List 2025: The 50 richest people in Yorkshire - including the region's three billionaires

However, it still leaves Yorkshire with three billionaires.

Malcolm Healey keeps his spot atop the pile depsite his Wren Kitchens seeing profits halve, while there has also been a fall in profits for a number of Yorkshire’s other richest people.

With an estimated value of £1.5bn, 81-year-old Mr Healey sees his value fall by £200m compared to 2024.

Even those at the bottom of the pile still have almost £200m to their name - so let’s take a look at Yorkshire’s richest people.

1.

Malcolm Healey, 81

2025: £1.5bn

2024: £1.7bn

Retail: Kitchens

Even billionaires don’t always have everything their own way. Healey’s Wren Kitchens reported profits having halved and nearly 1,000 jobs cuts.

A return to normality after exceptional trading after the Covid pandemic as well as heavy investment in a new factory at Barton-upon-Humber were blamed. The leaner profits lead us to cut the value of Wren by £200m to £800m this year.

Healey and his late brother Eddie started out in their family’s paint business before setting up Status Discount, a chain of 63 DIY stores which they later sold to MFI. In 2023 he sold electrical goods retailer Ebuyer, which was bought out of administration in August.

2.

The Shepherd family

2025: £1.3bn

2024: £1.3bn

Construction: Modular buildings

Last year the Shepherds sold Portakabin to the French infrastructure business Antin. Although the value of the deal was not made public, media reports suggested the modular building manufacturer fetched at least £1.5 billion.

York-based Portakabin began in the 1960s as an offshoot to the Shepherds’ construction firm. Taking account of tax on last year’s Portakabin sale, a strong run of dividends and other family wealth secures the Shepherds’ billionaire status.

3.

Lord Kirkham and family, 80

2025: £1.140bn

2024: £1.140bn

Retail: Furniture maker

Adopted by a miner when he was three weeks old, Graham Kirkham set his sights on becoming an RAF pilot. Failing to get the right O Level grades led him into the furniture world.

Before long Kirkham was renting a room above a snooker hall in Carcroft to make his own furniture. Originally called Northern Upholstery, this would be the start of the soft furnishings giant DFS, which he floated on the stock market.

4.

Andrea Shelley, William Morrison and Eleanor Kernighan and family, 64, 49 and

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2025: £960m

2024: £960m

Retail: Supermarkets

Shelley, Morrison and Kernighan are the three eldest children of the late “king of the tills” Sir Ken Morrison. The 2021 sale of Morrisons to a US private-equity group put a price of at least £700m on his family’s remaining stake.

Sir Ken’s offspring have companies themselves, including the Murton Grange holiday lets business near York.

5.

Paul Healey and family, 55

2025: £894m

2024: £886m

Property: Retail parks

Property developer Eddie Healey teamed up with Paul Sykes to build Sheffield’s Meadowhall

shopping centre. Healey died four years ago. Son Paul still owns two retail parks. The family’s main investment company, SPH 2011, was wound up a year ago and this entity showed £230.5m of assets when it was dissolved.

6.

John Jakes, 69

2025: £860m

2024: £800m

Industry: Stairlifts

Monaco-based Jakes has recently banked another £44.8m from his stairlift manufacturer. The latest windfall takes his dividends from Keighley-based Acorn Stairlifts to almost £300m over the past decade. Starting out as a repair man, Jakes only went into making his own models when replacement parts became scarce.

7.

Paul Sykes, 82

2025: £775m

2024: £775m

Property: Retail parks, metal recycling and internet services

The son of a Barnsley coalminer, he started out with scrap metal, dismantling old

buses and exporting parts to the Far East. By his 40s he had moved into property, developing offices, warehouses and industrial space including in London’s Docklands. He joined forces with the late Eddie Healey to build Sheffield’s Meadowhall shopping centre.

8.

Philip Meeson and family, 78

2025: £750m

2024: £730m

Transport: Package holidays

The former RAF pilot and acrobatics ace pulled off one of the greatest business pivots of all time. In 1983 Meeson bought a small company ferrying fresh flowers and other produce from the Channel Islands to the mainland.

After expanding the carrier’s fleet, he plotted a different course - transforming the group into Jet2, now the UK’s leading package holiday brand.

9.

Steve Parkin, 64

2025: £530m

2024: £509m

Transport: Home delivery services

Parkin has joined the exodus of wealthy Brits leaving the country and is now based on the low-tax island of Jersey. The former coal miner made his money from logistics business Clipper, which grew quickly off the back of the internet retail boom.

Wealth in Parkin’s private jet and racehorse companies are also up nearly £6m.

10.

Lawrence Tomlinson and family, 61

2025: £524m

2024: £464m

Construction: Care Homes

A man of contrasts, Tomlinson juggles the worlds of care homes and high-octane motorsport. His manufacturer Ginetta recently unveiled the Akula, a £275,000 supercar that can hit 62mph in 2.9 seconds from a standing start.

Tomlinson owes his real money to LNT Group, a developer on track to build its 300th care home.

11.

Paul and Johnny Caddick and family, 75 and 44

2025: £516m

2024: £515m

Construction: Housebuilding

Miner’s son Paul Caddick still chairs the property group and Johnny oversees Moda Living, a subsidiary delivering rental developments in major cities. The Caddicks also have most of the shares in Leeds Rhinos rugby club and own Headingley, the home of Yorkshire County Cricket Club.

Earlier this year, the Caddicks secured planning permission to build a 4,000-home village near Cattal.

12.

Jon and Susie Seaton, 42 and 44

2025: £500m

2024: £490m

Consumer goods: Education resources

Twinkl now provides teaching aides in 85 languages and 200 countries around the world. The sale of a 40 percent stake to a private-equity firm in 2023 put a £500m valuation on the Sheffield-based business.

The Seatons are now considering launching educational resources for adults who struggled to secure qualifications while at school.

13.

Roderick Evans and family, 63

2025: £460m

2024: £462m

Property: Hotels, industrial buildings and retail parks

The Evans’ family’s real estate group develops, manages and owns property projects ranging from Dakota hotels, offices, logistics hubs, civic buildings, log cabins and university facilities. There are 65 commercial buildings in the group and 500 acres of agricultural land.

14.

Terry Bramall and family, 82

2025: £428m

2024: £428m

Construction: Housebuilding

Bramall’s fortune stems from Keepmoat, a construction company set up by Terry’s father. The Bramalls are long considered to be among the region’s most prolific philanthropists.

Over the past year their foundation has given more than £8m to worthy causes, including hospices, the NSPCC and arts projects. And they own Doncaster Rovers football club.

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Mark Hunter, 63

2025: £425m

2024: £385m

Business services: Software developer

BJSS, the Leeds IT consultancy Hunter started with business partner Andrew Vincent, was sold to the Canadian group CGI in January. The deal valued BJSS at around £675m.

Taking account of tax on the sale, a run of payouts and a hefty property portfolio takes Hunter to £425m. His other interests include stakes in craft brewing and fine wines.

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Andrew Vincent, 69

2025: £425m

2024: £354m

Business services: Software developer

BJSS has worked for major corporates including BP, Specsavers and GoCompare. The business paid strong dividends for many years, including £36m in the year leading up to the sale. Vincent also has a property company and a venture investing in renewable energy.

17.

John Guthrie and family, 89

2025: £398m

2024: £389m

Property: Commercial property and agricultural land

Guthrie, a chartered surveyor by training, chairs his family’s diverse property group.

Scarborough-based Broadland Properties has a large commercial, industrial and residential portfolio. There are hydro-electric power assets in Scotland and farms in Poland. But the family is best-known for owning Kent’s Hever Castle.

18.

Chris Rea, 71

2025: £381m

2024: £344m

Industry: Manufacturing seals

Rea’s connection with the Rotherham business goes back to 1979. AESSEAL has invested massively in operations including a Factory for the Future. “My new factory is my yacht and the machines inside it are my Ferraris,” Rea has said.

Higher profits of £59m on rising revenues suggest the component manufacturer is easily worth £550m now.

19.

Peter Wilkinson, 71

2025: £358m

2024: £400m

Technology: Internet services

Wilkinson built the bulk of his fortunes many years ago from selling the early internet service providers Planet Online and Freeserve. He later made money from the patient monitoring firm Inhealthcare, overseeing the sale last year to a Californian firm. His investment company Holf has lost £42.3m of wealth over the past year though.

20.

Mark Cotton and family, 49

2025: £350m

2024: £248m

Consumer goods: Bedding manufacturer

John Cotton Group is planning a 300,000 sq ft storage facility next door to its Mirfield-based manufacturing base. Mark Cotton has worked for the business for 27 years and chairs the group. Profits plumped up by 36 percent to £35.5m in 2023-24. It did suffer a major fire in Bradford this summer though.

21.

Doug Gregory and family, 85

2025: £339m

2024: £273m

Industry: Furniture maker

This year, Gregory sold a controlling stake in Barnsley-based groupSymphony, the furniture business he founded in 1971. It specialises in making kitchens, bathrooms, cupboards and other pieces for hotels, developers and retailers including Laura Ashley. Details of the sale to Northern Ireland-based conglomerate R Barnett were not made public.

But with revenues of £320m in the year leading up to the deal it is unlikely that the transaction valued Symphony at less than £250m.

22.

David Hood, 77

2025: £332m

2024: £320m

Technology: TV equipment

Hood has joined forces with financial services entrepreneur Andrew Thirkill to take control of

Hull FC and now owns 40 percent of the indebted rugby league team. He made his fortune from Pace Micro Technology, a manufacturer of set-top boxes in the early days of cable TV.

Hood’s Skirfare Investments this year shows £57.6m of wealth – up £11.5m in a year.

23.

Frank Hester, 59

2025: £318m

2024: £395m

Business services: Software developer

Hester has made less money from his IT contractor TPP than he has donated to the Conservative Party in recent times. Over the past two years TPP has paid out £17m of dividends to Hester, who owns all of the Leeds-based software firm.

But over a similar period TPP donated £20m to the Tories. Its technology is now used by 7,800 NHS organisations.

24.

John Tordoff and family, 62

2025: £312m

2024: £360m

Consumer goods: Car dealer

You don’t have to appear in a Rich List to find something affordable in JCT 600’s new Bentley showroom in Leeds - but it helps. A secondhand Bentayga luxury SUV will set you back £214,000. Tordoff runs the dealership chain set up by his late father Jack. Profits fell by more than 40 percent over in a slow year for car sales.

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Wayne Earnshaw and family, 61

2025: £300m

2024: £200m

Construction: Drainage services

Last October, investment giant BlackRock took a controlling stake in Lanes Group. The Leeds-based group specialises in creating and repairing drains and sewers. Earnshaw picked up the reins from his father, Allan. There are now more than 20 Lanes sites with nearly 4,000 staff on the payroll.

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Danny Sawrij and family, 56

2025: £300m

2024: £300m

Food and drink: Agricultural services

Sawrij left school at 14 to work on his family’s cattle and mink-breeding farm, taking over from his parents while still in his teens. Over the years he has turned Leo Group into one of the UK’s leading specialists in animal by-products and renewable energy.

It collects and processes material which is converted into premium meals and oils used in pet food, cosmetics, chemical and biofuel.

27.

Alexander Marr and family, 55

2025: £293m

2024: £289m

Food and drink: Fish supplier

The Marrs have reeled in nearly £54 million of dividends from their frozen seafood empire over the past eight years. Founding father Joseph Marr effectively began the group with a Hull smokehouse in the 1860s, buying his first vessel during the following decade. Profits have slipped slightly to £25m on lower turnover of £970m.

28.

Dean and Janet Hoyle, 58 and 58

2025: £280m

2024: £264m

Retail: Greetings cards

The Hoyles’ stock market investments have had a good run over the past year, showing gains of more than £12m. This husband and wife team made at least £250m from setting up and growing the high-street chain Card Factory, averaging one new shop a week over a ten-year period. Investing in Huddersfield Town FC was costly though.

29.

Nick Howarth and family, 68

2025: £258m

2024: £307m

Construction: Timber supplies

Falling timber prices and the wider cost of living crisis has hit the fortunes of Leeds-based Howarth Timber. Profits fell by more than a fifth to £19.9m. The family-owned chain traces its roots back to 1840 and operates 37 timber and builders merchants and subsidiaries making pallets, packaging and roof batons with 1,000 staff.

30.

James and Luke Smith, 47 and 45

2025: £250m

2024: £250m

Industry: Safety barriers

A-Safe’s distinctive yellow safety barriers can be seen in countless factories, car parks, airports and warehouses around the world. Clients now include Amazon, BMW and Bosch.

The Elland-based business generated profits of £22.2m on £143m sales over the past year. Last year the Smiths sold a 25 percent stake to private-equity group IK Partners.

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Tony Bramall, 89

2025: £231m

2024: £228m

Consumer goods: Car sales

Bramall made the bulk of his money after an age that many people have retired. His first fortune came from growing his family’s car dealership chain CD Bramall, selling up for £94m.

He later repurposed a Bradford textiles manufacturer as another dealership ultimately selling that for £230m when in his late 60s. And after his 70th birthday, he bought into the Lookers chain.

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Stephen and Paul Harrison, 56 and 54

2025: £231m

2024: £278m

Construction: Housebuilding

The Harrison brothers own and run the Leeds-based housebuilder, setting it up while still in their twenties. Trading was tougher during 2024 - the first full year without the taxpayer-backed Help to Buy scheme.

The Harrisons paid themselves dividends of £4.3m over the past year and payouts in previous years take the pair to £231m.

33.

Jonathan and Lesley Wild and family, 73 and 73

2025: £222m

2024: £180m

Food and drink: Tea, coffee and cafes

The family behind Yorkshire Tea has had another record year. Profits more than doubled to £28.8m over the past year. The Wilds also own the five Bettys tearooms, the Taylors of Harrogate coffee brand, a craft bakery and a cookery school.

Bettys & Taylors prides itself on its Swiss-Yorkshire heritage, tracing its roots back to 1907.

34.

Andrew Cawthray and family, 68

2025: £218m

2024: £218m

Food and drink: Carbonated beverages

Cawthray made around £45m from selling Macaw Soft Drinks 20 years ago. Within a few years he was back, setting up a second business in the same line. His Northallerton-based manufacturer Cawingredients, grew into a major supplier of own-branded sparkling beverages.

Cawthray sold this operation to the Austrian owner of Red Bull two years ago.

35.

Chris Edwards and Chris Edwards Junior, 75 and 43

2025: £215m

2024: £201m

Retail: Discount stores

Edwards and his son Chris Edwards Junior have grown the Barnsley-based group One Beyond quickly, opening around 120 stores since launching in 2019. One Beyond was set up just five years after Edwards sold Poundworld for £150m.

Chris Junior also runs online retailer Gem Imports, which should be worth £50m.

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John and Carolyn Radford, 59 and 43

2025: £214m

2024: £184m

Financial services: Insurance

John Radford set up the Doncaster-based group 30 years ago and it now offers a wide range of cover, including policies for yoga instructors, pub landlords and taxi drivers. Earnings jumped by 30 percent to £21.7m over the past year.

All this provides plenty of funds to throw at his Mansfield Town football club. “My dream is to reach the Championship,” he said last year.

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Richard Teatum and family, 68

2025: £214m

2024: £275m

Consumer goods: Car sales

Stoneacre now amounts to more than 100 dealerships, selling 26 different car brands.

The Doncaster-based group is now one of the largest independent vehicle dealer groups, turning over around £1.4 billion and employing more than 3,000 staff. Its balance sheet shows net assets of £213.6m.

Teatum also owns the Darrington Golf Club near Pontefract.

38.

Simon Marshall and family, 61

2025: £213m

2024: £211m

Property: Commercial buildings

The Elland-based Marshall CDP construction and development firm builds warehouses, cinemas, offices, retail parks and factories. Simon Marshall is the fourth generation to run his family’s 124-year-old property group.

His great grandfather set up the developer in the early 20th century.

39.

Richard Barrett and family, 68

2025: £205m

2024: £205m

Industry: Steel supplier

Barrett Steel keeps more than 100,000 tonnes of beams, walkways, tubes and other metal products across its network of around 30 sites. The Bradford-based group was set up in 1866 and is believed to be the largest steel stockholder in the UK.

Lower demand from the construction industry over the past year has depressed steel prices.

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Erika Wilson, 46

2025: £200m

New entry

Industry: Power infrastructure

Hudson is the sole owner and managing director of Wilson Power Solutions. The Leeds-based manufacturer’s transformers have been earning well from the shift to net zero, providing essential infrastructure for solar farms and electric vehicles.

Hudson’s grandfather Richard Wilson founded the business in 1946. Profits have almost doubled to £25.2m on sales of £95.7m over the past year.

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Malcolm Walker and family, 77

2025: £200m

2024: £200m

Construction: Bathroom systems

A professional sportsman turned entrepreneur, Walker played rugby league for Hull FC in his youth. His Walker Modular now supplies bathroom “pods” to hotels, student flats, prisons and other large buildings.

Earnings from the sale of the separate Victoria Plumb business as well as the separate shower business Douglas James should take the Walkers to £200m.

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David Wood, 57

2025: £200m

New entry

Food and drink: Baked goods

David Wood Baking supplies major supermarkets with bread, cakes, biscuits, pies and pastries as well pizzas, toasties and ready meals. Wood set up the Leeds-based venture in 2008 after working in the food industry for 20 years.

There are now eight factories across the UK and the workforce has grown to nearly 1,800. A major fire at its site in Dudley has not stopped strong growth.

43.

Chris Bailey and family, 50

2025: £192m

New entry

Construction: Engineering

Bailey’s day job is head of compliance at Transpaygo, a London-based fintech company operating in the world of international money transfers. But he also serves on the board of NG Bailey, his family’s business.

The Leeds-based group was founded more than 100 years ago and prides itself on being the UK’s largest independent engineering and infrastructure services provider.

44.

Charlie and Greg Bond and family, 44 and 53

2025: £190m

New entry

Transport: Tyre distribution

The Bond brothers run their family’s tyre supplier, selling top brands including Pirelli, Michelin, Goodyear and Continental. The Pocklington-based business now employs more than 500 staff and claims to sell a tyre every six seconds.

Charlie and Greg Bond took the wheel of the business from their late father Reg. After operating profits of more than £18m, Bond International should be worth at least £180m.

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Alan Beardshaw and family, 77

2025: £187m

New entry

Industry: Steel production

Beardshaw runs the Sheffield steel producer founded by his grandfather 100 years ago. There are now six companies in the Special Steel Group, employing 230 people in the UK and US.

Rolls-Royce is among the company’s clients and exports now account for more than half of the £95m turnover.

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Sonya Eastaugh and the Oughtred family, 46

2025: £187m

2024: £193m

Food and drink: Food manufacturing and delivery

Easthaugh’s great-great-great-grandfather founded William Jackson Food Group nearly 175 years ago. She chairs the Hull-based group known for vegetable box delivery Abel & Cole, balsamic vinegar maker Belazu, the baking business Jacksons, a restaurant supplier Wellocks and a food-growing operation based in Spain.

Lottie Shaw, another multi-generation Yorkshire food group, joined the William Jackson family last year.

47.

Ian and Brenda Mosey, 76 and 71

2025: £182m

New entry

Food and drink: Agricultural services

The Moseys started more than 45 years ago running a piggery and fattening weaners for sale. Their diverse York-based group now produces around 250,000 tonnes of animal feed a year and they grow wheat and barley on 1,500 acres of land at Ryedale in North Yorkshire.

Profits have grown by nearly 80 percent to £21.6m over the past year.

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Sir Andrew Cook and family, 76

2025: £180m

New entry:

Industry: Manufacturing components

Cook is the sixth generation to run his family’s business and has grown revenues to within touching distance of £100m.

With Yorkshire bases in Sheffield and Leeds, William Cook Group makes a wide range of components for the rail, energy and manufacturing clients. Profits more than doubled to £22.5m over the past year - and this was after the payment of a £13.8m dividend.

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Patrick and Michael Heneghan and family, 43 and 41

2025: £180m

New entry

Construction: Civil engineering

Heneghan is one of the UK’s fastest-growing companies, increasing revenues by more than 140 percent over the past two years.

Irishman William Heneghan founded the Leeds-based firm, now specialising in everything from housebuilding and installing utilities services to delivering major civil engineering projects. Heneghan builds thousands of homes a year and installs tens of thousands of metres of internet cabling for Virgin Media and other clients.

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Jonathan Turner and family, 59

2025: £180m

2024: £180m

Energy: Oil distribution

Over the years their Wetherby-based conglomerate has moved into oil distribution, property, hospitality, mining and electric vehicle charging points. Profits at Bayford jumped to £20.8m on £420m sales in 2022-23.

The family also own the Yorke Arms, an 18th century country inn near Pateley Bridge that has been converted into a luxurious private venue.