| John Van Lieshout | |
| Birth Place: | Netherlands |
| Nationality: | Australian |
| Occupation: | Property developer |
| Children: | 3 |
John Van Lieshout (born 1946) is an Australian billionaire, the founder and former owner of the Amart Furniture store chain.[1]
Born in the Netherlands in 1946,[2] Van Lieshout is one of 13 children of Karel Van Lieshout, a plasterer, and his wife, Anna, who emigrated to Australia in 1960, initially processed at Brisbane's Wacol Migrant Camp.[3]
Van Lieshout has a high school diploma.[1]
Van Lieshout is the founder and former owner of the Super A-Mart furniture store chain.[1] He sold Super A-Mart in 2006 for 500 million, and moved into property development.[4] Through his Unison Projects Group, he has acquired 600 housing blocks and 200 townhouses in the Brisbane area.[4]
Other members of the family have founded businesses, and the family is known in Australia as the "kings and queens of furniture", having founded chains including Empire Office Furniture, Super A-Mart, BW Coles, Chevron and the Woolstore.[3]
Van Lieshout is married with three children and lives in Brisbane, Queensland.[1]
In 2014, Queensland's Sunday Mail named Van Lieshout as the richest person in Queensland, by net worth.[5]
| Year | Financial Review Rich List | Forbes Australia's 50 Richest | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Net worth (A$) | Rank | |||
| 2016[6] | $970 million | ||||
| 2017[7] [8] [9] | $1.72 billion | ||||
| 2018[10] | $1.92 billion | ||||
| 2019[11] [12] | $2.51 billion | $1.40 billion | |||
| 2020[13] | $2.03 billion | ||||
| 2021[14] | $2.49 billion | ||||
| 2022 | $2.70 billion | ||||
| 2023[15] | $2.72 billion | ||||
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