Rank #1648
Brian Hill
Net worth $2.6B
Fashion retailer · Canada
- Born
- Dec 17, 1960
- Age
- 65
- Source
- Fashion retailer
- Residence
- Vancouver
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Brian Hill is the founder of the Vancouver-based women's fashion retailer Aritzia, popular for its "everyday luxury" clothing.
- The son of a Vancouver department store owner, Hill opened his Aritzia first store in 1984 at age 23. He took the company public in Toronto in 2016.
- Today, Aritzia's around 130 "boutiques" across Canada and the U.S. generate nearly $2 billion in annual revenue.
- Hill ran the company as CEO for 38 years before stepping down in 2022; he remains executive chair.
- He owns around 16% of the company's stock.
- Hill's father owned the Hill's of Kerrisdale, a department store in Vancouver, while his grandfather ran a dry goods store in the city.
- Hill worked as a garbageman for three months before opening the first Aritzia in a Vancouver mall.
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