Greatest net worth increase for a female entrepreneur (year-on-year)
- Who
- Beate Heister
- What
- 9600000000 US dollar(s)
- Where
- Germany
- When
- 29 December 2014
According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Beate Heister (Germany) added $9.6 billion (£6.1 billion) to her wealth in 2014, making her the highest-earning female entrepreneur of the year. She owns 50% of the budget supermarket chain Aldi, along with her brother Karl Albrecht Jr (Germany). They inherited the business and the family fortune from their father Karl Albrecht Sr (Germany), who died in July 2014.