Net Worth: $970 million (June 2008)

Age: 36 years old

Marital status: Divorced, has a daughter

Last year: $321 million

Industry: Trade, food products production, restaurant business

In March and April of 2008 Korrespondent jointly with TV channel ICTV worked on a special project “Made in Ukraine”, which talked about the most successful national brands and people behind them. Fozzy Group, under the direction of Vladimir Kostelman, was among them. But the PR agency that works for Kostelman, made a strange condition for the journalists. It was allowed to talk about Kostelman, but it was not allowed to show him. If it were a radio station, this condition would be gladly accepted, but in that case, the project managers refused from Kostelman. 

Why this businessman is afraid of showing his face”? Is it modesty? Out of the question. This quality will not allow to triple the capital within one year and successfully develop a business, which includes the widest retail network in the country: Silpo supermarkets, Fora stores, network of pharmacies Be healthy, internet-store Gonza, Nezhin canning factory and Malinskiy meat processing plant, poultry factory “Varto”, communal service “Eko Service Ukraine” and at least two restaurants in the nation’s capital. In other words, it is not the modesty that makes Kostelman.