Rank #823
Nusli Wadia
Net worth $5.1B
Consumer goods · India
- Born
- Feb 15, 1944
- Age
- 82
- Source
- Consumer goods
- Residence
- Mumbai
- Citizenship
- India
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Nusli Wadia is chairman of the Wadia Group, a cookies-to-textiles empire with roots in shipbuilding dating back to 1736.
- Group companies include Britannia Industries and home textiles company Bombay Dyeing.
- His loss-making budget airline, Go First, declared bankruptcy in 2023.
- Wadia is often referred to as a corporate samurai by the Indian press for waging numerous legal battles.
- One notable battle was against the Tata Group and his former pal Ratan Tata, who got him ousted from the boards of three Tata firms in 2016.
- Wadia is the grandson of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan.
- Wadia's son Ness co-owns Indian Premier League cricket team Kings XI Punjab.
- In September 2024 Nusli Wadia sold a 10-acre parcel in Mumbai for over $130 million.
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