Retail: Petrol retailing Mohsin Issa and his younger brother Zuber stand to make a fortune from driving their petrol station group onto the New York stock exchange. The listing could value Bolton-based EG Group at as much as £13 billion and will be made under the name Cumberland Farms - a US company acquired by the Issas six years ago. Mohsin is now the sole chief executive of EG after Zuber stepped down last summer. The brothers started their forecourt empire from a single £150,000 site in Bury. Mohsin still owns a quarter of EG Group - a stake worth at least £2.5bn ahead of the float. He also owns 22.5% of the supermarket ASDA, a holding valued at £1.53bn by the 2021 takeover. placeholder image
Retail: Petrol retailing Mohsin Issa and his younger brother Zuber stand to make a fortune from driving their petrol station group onto the New York stock exchange. The listing could value Bolton-based EG Group at as much as £13 billion and will be made under the name Cumberland Farms - a US company acquired by the Issas six years ago. Mohsin is now the sole chief executive of EG after Zuber stepped down last summer. The brothers started their forecourt empire from a single £150,000 site in Bury. Mohsin still owns a quarter of EG Group - a stake worth at least £2.5bn ahead of the float. He also owns 22.5% of the supermarket ASDA, a holding valued at £1.53bn by the 2021 takeover. | Lorne Campbell / Guzelian

28 richest people from Greater Manchester named in the NW Business Insider Rich List

Jessica Lees
By Jessica Lees

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Published 21st Dec 2025, 14:20 GMT
Updated 1st Jan 2026, 06:00 GMT

As the North West’s wealthiest people has been revealed, we took a deep dive to see how many of them are from or are based in Greater Manchester.

Last week, Business Insider’s annual Rich List identified £45.6 billion of wealth shared between our region’s 50 most affluent individuals and families - up almost 9% on the previous year.

In this article here, we shared the 25 richest people from the North West according to that list.

Now we have gone back to NW Business Insider Rich List to see how many of the richest 50 people were Mancunians or had links to Greater Manchester

So take a look at the 28 people with links to Greater Manchester who have been named amongst the richest in the country.

Retail: Petrol retailing The younger of the Issa brothers is pumping millions of pounds into the revival of the Duckhams oil brand. An iconic name in British motorsport for decades, Duckhams was long associated with Formula One legends including Nigel Mansell and Ayrton Senna. BP retired the brand more than 20 years ago. Issa built his fortune with his sibling Mohsin at their petrol retailing juggernaut EG Group. There are plans for a US stockmarket float valuing the business at up to £13bn. Zuber owns about a quarter of the shares. We value that stake at £2.5bn until the float takes place. The younger Issa has sold his 22.5% stake in Asda, the supermarket. Tax on the proceeds of that sale explains why Zuber appears below his older brother in this list.

1. Zuber Issa Zuber Issa (2025: £3.724bn, 2024: £2.725bn)

Retail: Petrol retailing The younger of the Issa brothers is pumping millions of pounds into the revival of the Duckhams oil brand. An iconic name in British motorsport for decades, Duckhams was long associated with Formula One legends including Nigel Mansell and Ayrton Senna. BP retired the brand more than 20 years ago. Issa built his fortune with his sibling Mohsin at their petrol retailing juggernaut EG Group. There are plans for a US stockmarket float valuing the business at up to £13bn. Zuber owns about a quarter of the shares. We value that stake at £2.5bn until the float takes place. The younger Issa has sold his 22.5% stake in Asda, the supermarket. Tax on the proceeds of that sale explains why Zuber appears below his older brother in this list. | UGC Photo: UGC

Gambling and property The Dones will always be best known for BetFred, the betting shop chain the brothers set up with money won on a successful wager on England to win the 1966 World Cup. But in recent years their insurance and business services group Peninsula has been thriving - paying out a £65m dividend last year. This takes the payments from this part of their Dones’ empire to £314m over the past seven years - three times as much as those from BetFred. Although BetFred has not published new accounts in time for this Rich List, we upgrade the value of the Dones’ business empire from £2bn to £2.25bn. A run of dividends, property worth at least £250m and other assets take the brothers to £765bn.

2. Fred, pictured, and Peter Done (2025: £3.015bn, 2024: £2.7bn)

Gambling and property The Dones will always be best known for BetFred, the betting shop chain the brothers set up with money won on a successful wager on England to win the 1966 World Cup. But in recent years their insurance and business services group Peninsula has been thriving - paying out a £65m dividend last year. This takes the payments from this part of their Dones’ empire to £314m over the past seven years - three times as much as those from BetFred. Although BetFred has not published new accounts in time for this Rich List, we upgrade the value of the Dones’ business empire from £2bn to £2.25bn. A run of dividends, property worth at least £250m and other assets take the brothers to £765bn. | submit

Source of wealth: Financial services A former car dealer who clocked there was more money to be made selling loans to finance vehicles than old bangers, Moser has become one of the kings of the UK’s lending industry. His Cheadle-based group Together provides loans to businesses, property developers, buy-to-let investors and customers who can struggle to find credit from mainstream providers. Underlying profits climbed by 23% to £200.9m in 2024. Moser owns all of Together and there has been talk of a sale valuing the business at as much as £2bn. In the current market a £1.7bn price looks fairer - £100 more than a year ago. Balances in Moser’s property company have also grown by £16.1m since last year’s Rich List. The low-profile lender has also done well from dividends and a deal with private equity in recent years.

3. Henry Moser and family (2025: £1.875bn, 2024: £1.759bn)

Source of wealth: Financial services A former car dealer who clocked there was more money to be made selling loans to finance vehicles than old bangers, Moser has become one of the kings of the UK’s lending industry. His Cheadle-based group Together provides loans to businesses, property developers, buy-to-let investors and customers who can struggle to find credit from mainstream providers. Underlying profits climbed by 23% to £200.9m in 2024. Moser owns all of Together and there has been talk of a sale valuing the business at as much as £2bn. In the current market a £1.7bn price looks fairer - £100 more than a year ago. Balances in Moser’s property company have also grown by £16.1m since last year’s Rich List. The low-profile lender has also done well from dividends and a deal with private equity in recent years. | UGC Photo: UGC

Source of wealth: Real estate development Whittaker’s TraffordCity project aims to transform a 500-acre site close to Manchester’s centre into a leading leisure and retail destination with a £400m water park, an ice arena, surf park and glamorous hotel. The Isle-of-Man based developer has long been delivering vast undertakings, such as Salford’s MediaCity and the Liverpool2 container port. Whittaker’s wealth is particularly difficult to track because his biggest companies are based offshore. However, two of the largest onshore entities – Peel L&P Investments Holdings and Peel Holdings (Land and Property) – have grown their assets by nearly £71m over the past year. A separate Whittaker company paid out a £153.9m dividend.

4. John Whittaker and family (2025: £1.848bn, 2024: £1.623bn)

Source of wealth: Real estate development Whittaker’s TraffordCity project aims to transform a 500-acre site close to Manchester’s centre into a leading leisure and retail destination with a £400m water park, an ice arena, surf park and glamorous hotel. The Isle-of-Man based developer has long been delivering vast undertakings, such as Salford’s MediaCity and the Liverpool2 container port. Whittaker’s wealth is particularly difficult to track because his biggest companies are based offshore. However, two of the largest onshore entities – Peel L&P Investments Holdings and Peel Holdings (Land and Property) – have grown their assets by nearly £71m over the past year. A separate Whittaker company paid out a £153.9m dividend. | Forbes

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