"In August, the company valued itself at $20.62 a share.
The company valued the transaction at $1.7 billion including debt.
The only American company valued higher is Exxon Mobil, with a market capitalization of $278.64 billion.
That was in addition to an unidentified "retirement gift" that the company valued at $2,200.
It is a FTSE-100 company, valued at £4.3bn – making Ashley's 64% stake worth £2.8bn.
Uber now operates around the world, with the company valued at more than £50bn.
However, the accounts also show the Scottish company valued the aircraft at just £269,000.
Europe's next unicorn [a startup company valued at $1bn plus] could stem from the collaborative economy".
The combined company, valued at around euro25 billion ($31 billion), will be the world's largest operator of toll-roads.
And an investment in the preference shares of Facebook by a Russian company valued it at $10 billion.
At the end of last year, the company valued its newspaper assets at $293.6 million, no doubt a generous figure.
