page_title: Anders Holch Povlsen
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Anders Holch Povlsen / Early life
caption_attribution_description: Dansk: Constantinsborg ved Aarhus
context_page_description: Anders Holch Povlsen is a Danish billionaire who is the CEO and sole owner of the international clothes retailer chain Bestseller, a company founded by his parents, the largest shareholder in the British internet clothes retailer Asos.com, and second-largest in German internet clothes retailer Zalando. He is the largest individual private landowner in the UK.
  In 2018, Povlsen was the richest Dane according to Forbes.
context_section_description: Anders Holch Povlsen was born in 1972 to Troels Holch Povlsen and Merete Bech Povlsen. The family's first clothes store opened in 1975 in the small Danish town of Brande, with a population of 7,000. Other outlets soon followed. Anders was only 28 when his father made him the sole owner of Bestseller. The family also has an interest, along with two Danish partners, in Bestseller Fashion Group China, a company that designs its own collections for 5,000 stores in China.
caption: Constantinsborg Estate in Aarhus, Denmark
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