Nigel Austin
$1.25B
as of 07/05/24
About Nigel Austin
Nigel Austin is the founder and majority owner of the Cotton On clothing and stationery group. Its brands include Cotton On, Supre, Factorie and Typo.
His company has grown rapidly in the past few years, expanding to 1,500 stores in 22 countries with estimated 2023 revenue of around $1.4 billion.
About half of these stores are in Australia, while the other half are spread across countries such as Singapore, South Africa and the U.S.
Founded in 1991, Austin started selling acid-washed denim jackets from the trunk of his car in his hometown southwest of Melbourne.
Now it sells inexpensive fashion basics, including T-shirts, leggings, sweatpants, shoes and underwear, as well as quirky stationery.
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AustraliaSource of wealth
RetailResidence
Melbourne, AustraliaMarital status
MarriedBirth date
09/25/70 (age 53)Number of children
6Self-made
self-madeNigel Austin’s fortune is worth
21K
troy ounces of gold
19K
median U.S. household
13K
median U.S. income
0.025%
U.S. credit card volume
0.005%
GDP of the United States
0.004%
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Did you know?
Austin's late father, Grant Austin, ran a publicly traded clothing wholesale and import business called the Austin Group, where Austin would spend school holidays working.
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