ustralian billionaire Anthony Pratt has been hurled into the spotlight after U.S. press reports alleged that former President Donald Trump spilled secrets about U.S. nuclear subs to the businessman.that Trump discussed the potentially sensitive information with Pratt—who’s a member of his Mar-a-Lago Club—shortly after leaving office. The report alleges that the businessman then went on to share that information with several others, following the revelations at Trump’s private club.
He’s chairman of both Visy and Pratt Industries, two massive paper and packaging companies. Visy, the basis of the family fortune, was built over many decades by Pratt’s father Richard Pratt, who died in 2009. Since then, Pratt’s been in charge and the company has become Australia’s second-biggest private company.
Pratt Industries is the group’s U.S. corrugated packaging company, with about $12 billion of assets. Anthony has been central to the group’s growth in the U.S. since moving there in the 1990s in order to expand the family’s global operations. They began buying box plants and built a paper recycling mill before inking a waste paper recycling deal with the City of New York. Pratt Industries has grown to become the fifth largest corrugated packaging company in the U.S.