| With charitable donations approaching £30m in the past year alone, the Rausing family are the country's fourth biggest benefactors. Only Tom Hunter (qv) has given away significantly more. "You become rich at the moment you put the money to good use," says Sigrid Rausing, 42, youngest daughter of Hans Rausing, the Swedish-born, Sussex-based industrialist. The family's fortune is derived from Tetra Pak (later Tetra Laval), which revolutionised the packaging of products such as milk and juices. Hans, 78, moved to Britain in the early 1980s and sold his 50% stake in the company to his late brother Gad for about £4.4 billion in 1995. Since then he has invested in new ventures such as Ecolean, an environmentally friendly packaging material made from chalk, a Swedish crystal company and a Ukrainian ketchup maker. The Sigrid Rausing Trust is the most prominent of the family's philanthropic vehicles. It gave £9.8m last year to human rights, women's issues and social and environmental causes in the UK and worldwide. Hans Rausing's own charitable trusts also make large donations. These included a £1.5m gift to a Swedish university medical faculty last year to research the treatment of brain tumours. His elder daughter, Lisbet, 43, is vice-president of the conservation charity Fauna & Flora International, to which she is giving more than £2m over four years. Despite the string of investments and charitable work, the family's investment income will have increased this year. Forbes magazine estimates the rise at about £150m and we raise the Rausings' total value accordingly.
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2003: £4,800m
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