Chick-Fil-A-Erben Top Forbes' list of billionaires in Georgia again

ATLANTA – – The owners of these famous chicken sandwiches not only bring waffle fries and milkshake money -they serve billions. Forbes has published his annual list of the richest people in the world, and the richest Georgians are led by none other than the family behind Chick-Fil-A.

What we know:

Bubba Cathy, Dan Cathy and Trudy Cathy White tied to 213 on the global list and have a combined net assets of 11.4 billion US dollars. The trio, children of Chick-Fil-a founder S. Truett Cathy, leads the ever growing fast food empire, which now offers more than 3,200 restaurants all over the world.

However, the rise of the Kathy family to the finance manager comes with a rare slowdown of the meteoric sales growth of Chick-Fil-A. According to the recent franchise document of the company, which was published on Wednesday, the US system -wide sales in 2024 increased by only 5.4% -which corresponds to $ 22.7 billion. This is a decrease of 21.6 billion US dollars in 2023 and has been the lowest growth rate for the brand for at least 19 years.

In order to put this in the right light, Chick-Fil-A had dropped an average of 15.5% between 2020 and 2023 and has not dropped under double-digit numbers since 2013. A new 24-hour location in Dallas-Fort Worth (yes, still closed Sundays) could give these figures in 2025 a push.

Hot on the Chick-Fil-A Family Heels is a co-founder and owner of Atlanta Falcons, Arthur Blank, with an estimated 9 billion US dollars for his name in 329th place. Blank started the first home depot store with business partner Bernie Marcus in 1979 and now also monitors Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation.

The most third -party Georgian is Gary Rollins, chairman of Pest Control Giant Rollins Inc. He was classified in 487. Given the number of errors in the south, not very surprising.

Other large Georgia names that make the billionaire cut are:

John Brown (No. 369): Former CEO of the Medical Device Company Stryker, worth 8.2 billion US dollars.

Jim Kennedy (No. 512): Former Chairman of Cox Enterprises with a fortune of 6.6 billion US dollars.

Dan Kurzius (No. 634) and Ben chestnut (No. 717): Co-founder of Mailchimp, born in Atlanta, with a net assets of $ 5.6 billion or $ 5.1 billion.

It turns out that Georgia's billionaires include everything from sandwiches to software – and they are definitely not hurt for the intake sauce.

Big Picture View:

They are just a piece of the global billionaire buffet. The billionaire list of Forbes' 2025 from 2025 now contains a record-breaking 3,028 members who are worth a stunning 16.1 trillion US dollar. The average billionaire? With a cool 5.3 billion US dollars.

For the first time this year, each, three People are worth more than 200 billion US dollars. Elon Musk heads the package with 342 billion US dollars, thanks to the booming business at SpaceX and his AI company Xai. It follows by Mark Zuckerberg of Meta (216 billion USD) and the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos (USD 215 billion). LVMH -Luxus king Bernard Arnault fell to fifth place.

The United States stays on the billionaire list with 902, followed by China and India. The new faces this year include Bruce Springsteen, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jerry Seinfeld – and even the Moguls behind Cava, Zaxby's and Jersey Mike's. Yes, your sandwich attorney may have helped someone to join the Billiardaires Club.

Regardless of whether it is chicken or chipotle shells that drive the fortune, the billionaire boom is alive and good.

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