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Press and Journal
16-05-2025
- Business
- Press and Journal
Major Highland landowner Anders Holch Povlsen sees wealth soar by almost £1 billion
A list of Scotland's richest people shows major Highlands landowner Anders Holch Povlsen has grown his net worth by almost £1 billion in the past year. The new Sunday Times Rich List 2025 reveals he has retained his position as Scotland's richest person. Meanwhile, media and television personality Georgia Toffolo is ranked as the wealthiest person in Scotland under 40, after marrying Brewdog co-founder James Watt earlier this year. The top entrepreneurs from the Highlands, Moray and Aberdeen have been unveiled ahead of Sunday's magazine which will list the 350 richest in the UK. Fashion billionare Anders Holch Povlsen is Scotland's largest private landowner, owning more than 220,000 acres of land – including a dozen of Highland estates. He remains Scotland's wealthiest man with a fortune of £7.7bn. His home, Aldourie Castle, sits on the shores of Loch Ness. Anders' Highland company Wildland Limited posted pre-tax losses of £8.1 million for the year ending July 31 2024. His wealth stems from the Danish fashion retailer Bestseller, founded by his father, Troels Holch Povlsen, in 1975. Anders, 52, is now chief executive and sole owner of the business. He also has a stake in the struggling fast-fashion outfit Asos. He is the 23rd richest person in the UK. Chairman of Moray-based distiller William Grant and Sons, Glenn Gordon is the second richest person in Scotland. The family firm owns brands including Glenfiddich and Grant's whisky, Drambuie, Hendrick's gin and Sailor Jerry rum. The Glenfiddich chief has seen a £779m rise of net worth in the past 12 months. Aberdeen oil tycoon Sir Ian Wood has seen a slight rise to his fortunes in the past year. The third wealthiest in Scotland, 80-year-old Sir Ian was born in Aberdeen and is behind Granite City firm Wood, which is currently subject to a takeover bid. This year, the billionaire picked up the 2025 Significant Contribution Award at the Offshore Achievement Awards (OAAs). Lord Laidlaw is a Keith-born businessman and a former member of the House of Lords who has seen his wealth drop by £11m in the past year. The founder of the Institute for International Research (IIR), which became the world's largest conference and training company. He sold the firm in 2005 for around £770m to Informa Plc and is the 10th wealthiest person on the Sunday Times Scottish list. Georgia Toffolo ranked as the wealthiest person under the age of 40 in Scotland. The reality TV star has seen her net worth soar as the list values hers, and her husband James Watt, wealth as a couple The number of billionaires has dropped for three successive years and now sits at 156. The list of 350 individuals hold a combined wealth of £772.8bn – down by 3% in the 37th edition. Sunday Times Rich List compiler Robert Watts said: 'Our billionaire count is down and the combined wealth of those who feature in our research is falling. 'We are also finding fewer of the world's super rich are coming to live in the UK. 'Homegrown young tech entrepreneurs and those running centuries-old family firms are also warning of serious consequences to a range of tax changes unveiled in last October's budget. 'Our research continues to find a wide variety of self-made entrepreneurs building fortunes not just from artificial intelligence, video games and new technologies but also mundane, everyday items such as makeup, radiators and jogging bottoms.'
USA Today
10-02-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Sailor Jerry is a perfectly cromulent rum
Welcome back to FTW's Beverage of the Week series. Here, we mostly chronicle and review beers, but happily expand that scope to any beverage that pairs well with sports. Yes, even cookie dough whiskey. Sailor Jerry always had the look working for it. The rum, established around the turn of the millennium right about when his protégé Ed Hardy became the aesthetic of a decade, seemed cool as hell. There was one of Norman Collins's — Sailor Jerry himself — old hula girl tattoos right on the label. As you drank it, more pinup girls would emerge from the back label, peeking above a brown reservoir of spiced rum. But rum wasn't really my jam. It was an easy mixer at college parties, but we weren't sniffing anything that came in actual glass bottles at that point. When a work trip to Bermuda to cover sailing introduced me to dark n' stormies (I understand, my life is ridiculous), my go-to for at-home imitators was $12 handles from Costco. The fates, seeing a life in which I'd never been adorned in anything Ed Hardy, Von Dutch or (grimacing) Affliction, decided I had not escaped the 2000s just yet. The folks at Sailor Jerry sent me a bottle to review. I obliged, because 20 years ago my back didn't hurt all the time, Arrested Development was still on the air (sorta) and my facial hair was all (mostly) the same color. Take me back, Sailor Jerry. Over ice: B+ My rum experience is mostly limited to mixed drinks. Basic ones, because that's where rum shines (and not because I'm lazy. Totally not that). But any solid barrel-aged spirit should be smooth and complex enough to work on its own, so let's begin there. It pours a proper caramel brown. It smells like sweet vanilla and caramel with just enough of a boozy sting at the end to ensure this is not a dessert drink. But that sweetness lingers through each sip. While there's a bit of a medicinal sting at the end, this is a perfectly sippable spirit. You get light vanilla, solid expressions of caramel and a minor burn as it hits the end point at the back of your throat. That leaves it a bit simple. There's not much to dig for; it's a spiced rum, which makes it a cannonball in a mixed drink and slightly basic on its own. But what it does it does well; it's light for a dark spirit and while I probably won't sip it on its own too often it's still solid as hell for $25 per handle. With Coke Zero: B+ Not much to say here; it's a rum and Coke, and it's good. Well, dang, that's not a great review. Let me dig a little deeper. The caramel of the sugar inside melds effortlessly with a sweet soda. The vanilla shines for anyone who grew up pounded flavored colas (or who loses their mind when they see a Coke Freestyle machine in the wild). It's, again, a little basic, but that's what rum and Coke is supposed to be. Utilitarian. I don't want mixology or subtlety. I want a spirit that enhances my soda and gets me a little drunk. There's some minor, hollow harshness at the end of the sip, but otherwise Sailor Jerry hits that target dead-on. With Barritt's Ginger Beer: A- Well, this would have been a dark n' stormy if my dumb brain could remember to buy limes. Instead, it's just ginger and rum, which is still fine on its own. I love a good ginger beer, but tend to stick to the sugar free variants; just this 7.5 ounce can of Barritt's is 119 calories on its own. That's worth it in small doses; the sugar is rich and leads to a denser, more flavorful and almost bready finish. But, yeah, 12 ounces of that is effectively two hard seltzers of calories even before you add booze. Anyway, the spice of the ginger makes this an even better fit than Coke. While that was sweet-on-sweet, this adds some balance to the mix in a way that lets the vanilla and spice of the rum stand out even more. The contrast helps it pop, but the two work in harmony — two good drinks intertwined in tribute to something better. Which, of course, is an overdramatic way to tell you I dropped a shot of Sailor Jerry into my ginger beer. But here we are. That minor rubbing alcohol sting that lingers in the back of each Sailor Jerry sip remains, but ultimately… pretty good. Would I drink it instead of a Hamm's? This a pass/fail mechanism where I compare whatever I'm drinking to my baseline cheap beer. That's the standby from the land of sky-blue waters, Hamm's. So the question to answer is: on a typical day, would I drink Sailor Jerry over a cold can of Hamm's? On it's own, no — but that's not really what Sailor Jerry is for. Give me some ginger beer and a lime and I'm all in.
