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South Shields clothes company J Barbour made a £10.1 million profit on £74.5m sales in 2009.

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With £43m assets, it is worth £100m. Its famous jackets were invented in 1909. Barbour, 71, gave up teaching to take over the reins in the early 1970s when her husband died.

The Sunday Times Rich List added £10m for other assets and past dividends to Barbour and her family net worth. She currently has a net worth of $1.54 billion.


Earnings & Financial Data

Date

Category

Description

Amount

2018

Earning Turned Donation

Grants given by Dame Margaret's Barbour Foundation mainly to North East charities and projects

$16,750,000

2013

Earning Turned Donation

Grants awarded by the Barbour Foundation to charities and cultural projects

$14,100,000

2013

Earning Turned Donation

Total amount of donations of The Barbour Foundation as one the company's trustees

$930,320

2013

Earning Turned Donation

Total amount of donations of The Barbour Foundation as one the company's trustees

$2,660,000

2011

Asset

Net assets of the South Shields clothes company J Barbour

$57,540,000