At 85, Philippe Foriel-Destezet apparently enjoys the summits. After living in London and Belgium, the founder of Interecco (renamed Ecco) has just settled in the upscale ski resort of Gstaad, in the canton of Bern, formerly frequented by Johnny Hallyday. Although he no longer has executive functions in temporary work, Philippe Foriel-Destezet retains, through his holding Akila, a stake of some 5.5% in the Adecco group, reveals the Swiss business magazine With. This presents, as every year, the 300 richest in Switzerland. The fortune of this Lyonnais, married and father of four children, is estimated between two and three billion Swiss francs (1.9 to 2.8 billion euros).
Fishing for tricolor haves was not particularly successful this year, With was only able to find two new cases. In addition to Philippe Foriel-Destezet, it is the Bahadourian family, based in Geneva, and who would enjoy a fortune of between 930 million and 1.4 billion euros. It all started in the 1930s in Lyon when Djebraïl Bahadourian “opened a small 40 square meter grocery store in the Guillotière district”, the magazine says. The idea: to allow migrant communities from the Middle East to find food products from their countries. At the end of 2019, the Bahadourian family bought the delivery company of frozen products Toupargel. In addition, it acquired several properties in Geneva for a total of 78 million euros.
Patrick Drahi would have lost a billion
Would the famous tax packages no longer attract large French taxpayers? However, they remain very attractive: rich foreigners do not pay a tax calculated on their income and/or their fortunes, but on the basis of their… expenses. That is to say on the rental value of the accommodation they occupy. Under the title “The return to the land of the French rich? », Illustrated by a photo by Emmanuel Macron, With notes that the disappearance of the wealth tax (ISF) has effectively led to a drop in the number of tax expatriates. For the first time, the balance would even be positive: while 163 taxpayers liable for the ISF went abroad, at the same time, 240 were returning to France. However, no wealthy has abandoned Switzerland.
The 2020 winners list 44 French people among the 300 richest in Switzerland. They accumulate a fortune estimated at 96 billion euros. The number one remains the Wertheimer family, domiciled in Geneva, at the head of Chanel, with a woolen stocking of between 23 and 24 billion. The Wertheimers are head and shoulders ahead of the Castel family (number one in wine in France, number two in beer in Africa), which must be satisfied with 12 and 13 billion. Patrick Drahi comes in third, 9.3 to 10.2 billion. At the head of the telecoms giant Altice, he officially lives in the mountains, at an altitude of 1,600 meters, in Zermatt, in the canton of Valais. According to the economic magazine, Patrick Drahi would have succeeded in limiting the breakage this year losing, despite the crisis, only a small billion. Covid also makes people happy. The Hoffmann and Oeri families, which own the pharmaceutical group Roche, have raked in an additional 2 billion Swiss francs thanks to the tests. Their fortune would now amount to 30 billion.
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