Simon Arora


Simon Arora is a British billionaire businessman, CEO of the retail chain B & M.

Early life

Simon Arora was born in November 1969. He studied law at Cambridge University.

Career

Arora worked as an analyst for McKinsey, 3i and Barclays.
In 1995, he went into business with his younger brother Bobby Arora, importing homewares from Asia and supplying them to UK retail chains, before buying B & M in 2004, which was then a struggling grocery chain based in Blackpool.
Jointly with his brothers Bobby and Robin, they have a net worth of £2.3 billion.
In 2017, Simon and Bobby Arora cashed in £215m of shares and reduced their stake in B&M by a quarter, three years after taking it public.

Personal life

He is married to Shalni Arora, who has a Natural Sciences degree from Cambridge University, and was a co-founder of bio-tech business DxS. They have two daughters.
Arora owns three of the flats at 3-10 Grosvenor Crescent, a Grade II* listed terrace in London's Belgravia district, where he unsuccessfully opposed a legal dispute about concierge services in 2017.