Add It Up - Days of wine and dollars
Estimated combined wealth in 2005 of Anne Cox Chambers and Barbara Cox Anthony, the daughters of James M. Cox, who founded Atlanta-based Cox Enterprises ... $25 billion
The sisters’ rank in the Forbes magazine list of 400 richest Americans ... 12
Percentage by which sisters’ fortune has grown since 1996 ... 212
Percentage by which median American household income has grown from 1996 to 2004 ... 26
Cases of wine donated by Anne Cox Chambers from her private vineyard in Provence, France, to last month’s Swan Coach House Flea Market, which benefits the visual arts in Atlanta ... 3
Estimated value of each case ... $150
Free bottles of wine handed out by vinters in southern France last summer to highlight that country’s oversupply of wine ... 400,000
Price per person of a five-day wine trip through Provence and Rhone next May, organized by French Wine Explorers ... $4,895
Number of Georgians Anne Cox Chambers could send on such a trip ... 2,553,626
Sources: Agence France Presse, Forbes, Fortune, Swan Coach House, U.S. Census