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The billionaire brothers who built an empire from a Bury petrol station and have just bought ASDA for £6.8bn

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Bury town centre, the seeds of a billion pound empire were sown. When brothers Mohsin and Zuber Issa purchased the run-down garage in Brandlesholme Road back in 2001, there was little to distinguish it from so many others up and down the country.But its new owners possessed big dreams and a vision.Nearly 20 years on, the Issa brothers are worth more than £3bn and have just bought Asda for £6.8bn.The deal with US shopping giant Walmart puts Asda back into British ownership for the first time in more than 20 years.Yet despite the brothers' vast wealth, the story of their remarkable rise to being one of the UK's richest families is not particularly well-known.Born to an Indian mother and father, who moved to Britain with little to their name.

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