Rank #1225
Anthony Langley
Net worth $3.5B
Manufacturing · United Kingdom
- Born
- Dec 02, 1954
- Age
- 71
- Source
- Manufacturing
- Residence
- Nottinghamshire
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 3
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Tony Langley owns Nottinghamshire, UK-based engineering and manufacturing giant Langley Holdings.
- Langley started the business in 1975, at age 20, with what was left of his grandfather's failed engineering firm.
- He launched Langley Mining, which sold equipment to the UK coal industry and eventually moved to steel, oil and gas customers as well.
- In 2000 he further diversified, buying Clarke Chapman, a crane manufacturer, from Rolls Royce.
- Today Langley Holdings employs about 5,400 people across more than 90 subsidiaries and generates annual revenues of around $1.8 billion.
- An accomplished yachtsman, Langley owns the Gladiator Sailing Team that competes in elite racing competition.
- In 2016, Langley agreed to house 80 Syrian refugees in surplus office space in Germany after a request from the local government.