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Oil tanker tycoon Fredriksen tops rich list
Oil tanker tycoon John Fredriksen has once again bagged the top spot of Norway's billionaires list, after increasing his fortune by nearly a third on the back of a recovering shipping market.
Published: 26 September 2013 11:46 CEST
John Fredriksen - Heiko Junge Scanpix
The 69-year-old Cypriot citizen boosted his income from more than 69 billion kroner ($11bn) last year to 90 billion kroner ($15bn) in 2013, Kapital Magazine reported in its annual rich list.
According to the magazine, Norway's 400 richest people are now 100 billion kroner ($17bn) richer than they were in 2012, with the country gaining 144 new billionaires.
This year's biggest change was the relegation of oil rig baron Peter Smedvig from the top ten to make way for shipping magnate Arne Wilhelmsen, and Aker Soltutions owner Kjell Inge Røkke dropping one place to seventh in the list, making way for supermarkets tycoon Stein Erik Hagen.
Rank Name 2013 2012(position)
1 John Fredriksen 90.0 69.8 (1)
2 Olav Thon 27.7 25.5 (2)
3 Johan Johannson 26.0 25.3 (3)
4 Odd Reitan 25.2 24.3 (4)
5 Johan Henrik Andresen 22.0 18.3 (5)
6 Stein Erik Hagen 13.8 12.4 (7)
7 Kjell Inge Røkke 12.9 12.5 (6)
8 Trond Mohn 12.2 11.0 (8)
9 Arne Wilhelmsen 10.2 8.2 (11)
9 Petter Anker Stordalen 10.2 9.3 (9)
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