World’s richest booze billionaires
19th March, 2014
by
Lauren Eads
1. Jorge Paulo Lemann, Brazil
Jorge Paulo Lemann is a Swiss-Brazilian banker who owns a share of the world’s largest brewer AB InBev and is the 34th richest person in the world.
As well as his stake in the beverage industry, Lemann has numerous interests in the financial markets having co-founded the Brazilian investment banking firm Banco Garantia 1971 with Marcel Herrmann Telles and Carlos Alberto Sicupira. Lemann also once played at Wimbledon as a professional tennis player.
Worth: $19.7bn
Forbes rich list: #34