SEVERAL people with north Hampshire links feature in the latest Rich List produced by The Sunday Times.

Entrepreneur Rafi Razzak - who heads the award-winning computer company Centerprise International - features for the fourth consecutive year.

In the 2004 table, printed this week, he was placed equal 777th, with his computer company valued at £60million.

Although turnover was down to £90million in 2003, Mr Razzak, 55, views Centerprise's performance as a success story in an industry which has seen many companies go the wall.

Speaking in a recent exclusive interview, he told The Gazette: "The last two years have been tough in the IT industry, in particular, and the general economy.

"The future is bright because we are able to see through this tough environment for Centerprise to achieve its goals and ambitions.

"It's not only about turnover, it's about how you feel - and we're here to stay."

Centerprise was founded in 1983 by Mr Razzak, a former IBM engineer, with £100,000 of savings and money raised from family and friends.

It is based on the Hampshire International Business Park, in Chineham, and this year is set to open a new facility in Wales.

The company entered the Basingstoke Business Awards for the first time and this March was a runner-up in The Gazette-sponsored Business in the Community 2003 category.

Elsewhere in the Rich List, the Duke of Westminster, 52, lost his first place to Russian entrepreneur Roman Abramovich, who bought Chelsea Football Club last year.

The Duke, who heads the Grosvenor Group, which developed Festival Place, came second with £5billion. He was first in 2003 with £4.9billion.

The Earl of Portsmouth, 49, who owns a 3,000-acre estate at Farleigh Wallop on the outskirts of Basingstoke, is in equal 384th place, with a wealth estimated at £100million.

Lord Sainsbury, 63, of Preston Candover, and family, ranked 16th with £1.7billion, the first year they have been outside the top 10. In 2003, the supermarket family was 10th with £1.5billion.