Joy Alukkas

$4.4B
as of 07/05/24

About Joy Alukkas

Son of a jewelry store owner and school dropout, Joy Alukkas went to the Middle East to open the family's first overseas store in 1987 in Abu Dhabi.

He broke off to launch his own Joyalukkas brand, which now has 100 outlets spread across India and 60 overseas.

His other interests include a money exchange outfit, malls and real estate.

Alukkas' son John Paul is managing director of the international jewelry business.

Alukkas decided to postpone the public listing of the jewelry business citing a tepid IPO market.

Personal stats

Citizenship

India

Source of wealth

Jewelry

Residence

Cochin, India

Marital status

Married

Birth date

09/04/56 (age 67)

Number of children

3

Self-made

inherited and growing

Joy Alukkas’s fortune is worth

73K

troy ounces of gold

68K

median U.S. household

44K

median U.S. income

0.088%

U.S. credit card volume

0.018%

GDP of the United States

0.013%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

Joy Alukkas's wife Jolly Joy heads the Joyalukkas Foundation.

Net worth over time

Real-time ranking

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