Graeme Hart
Graeme Richard Hart is a New Zealand billionaire businessman and the country’s wealthiest person. He prefers to stay out of the general media and makes few public appearances.
- New Zealand’s perennial richest person, Graeme Hart amassed a packaging empire using leveraged buyouts.
- Hart’s holdings make everyday products like milk cartons, water bottles, paper and aluminum foil.
- Since 2013, his Rank Group has been selling off subsidiaries in an apparent move to pay down its debts.
- In March 2015 his Reynolds Group Holdings, best known for its aluminum foil Reynolds Wrap, closed the $4.1 billion sale of its subsidiary SIG.
- SIG is the maker of cartons for beverage brands including V8, Ocean Spray, Dole, and others.
