Leading the field, Hans Rausing, inventor of the Tetra Pak, is believed to be worth some £5.4bn. He slips from sixth to seventh place this year.

At the other end of the list, there were four new print entrants, including Lord Gavron, chair of the Folio Society, whose sale of St Ives shares landed him £34m. David Instance joins Gavron at position 1,259, after he sold 49% of his pharmaceutical instruction print business. Both have a n estimated fortune of £60m.

Andrew Pindar and Terry Brady are at 1,446, worth an estimated £50m each, as owners of Pindar and Alito Color Group respectively.

In newspapers, Sir Ray Tindle heads the list at 362, with an estimated net worth of £225m.

John Madejski tops the publishers, placed at 214. He is believed to have added £174m from the sale of AutoTrader to his personal wealth, reported as £400m.

PrintWeek publisher Haymarket's chairman Lord Heseltine is the only established Rich List name in publishing on the rise. His £250m fortune is based entirely on his complete ownership of Haymarket, Britain's largest privately owned magazine publisher, having bought-out minority shareholders last year.

The complete entrants for the print and packaging industry on the 2008 list follow:

Printing
1259= David Instance and family £60m
1259= Lord Gavron £60m
1446= Andrew Pindar and family £50m
1446= Terry Brady £50m

Packaging
7 (6) Hans Rausing and family £5,400m
131 (103) Michael Cornish and family £637m
224 (191) Sir Michael Smurfit and family £398m
616= (490=) Abdul Alimahomed and family £125m
1572= Mark Dujardin and family £48m

Newspapers
362= (319=) Sir Ray Tindle £225m
701= (285) Freddie Johnston and family £115m
854= (572=) Douglas Graham and family £95m

Publishing
214= (195=) John Madejski £400m
325= (351=) Lord Heseltine and family £250m
444= (386=) Louise MacBain £187m
480= (421=) The Earl of Stockton and the Macmillan family £172m
969= (834=) Peter Kindersley and family £80m
1049= Tony and Maureen Wheeler £75m
1093= (896=) Antony Crosthwaite-Eyre and family £74m
1197= Peter Savill £65m
1598= Peter Usborne £47m
1621= Guy Parr £45m
1621= Paul Anderson £45m