Hank & Doug Meijer – Billionaire

Together Hank and Doug Meijer run Michigan-based grocery chain Meijer. The brothers are co-chairman of the company and Hank is also CEO. They took control of the family-owned company in 1990 when their father, Frederik stepped down. The company was founded in 1934 by their father along with their grandfather, Hendrik, a Dutch immigrant. The first store was called North Side Grocery. A few years later, the name was changed to Meijer’s Grocery. Hendrik and Frederik opened Thrifty Acres in 1962, one of the first stores in the country to offer one-stop shopping: Customers could buy groceries, clothing, and toys all in the same store. Frederik ran the company from 1964 to 1990. Meijer operates more than 230 stores throughout the Midwest. In June 2015 it opened its first stores in Wisconsin and plans to expand to Cleveland in 2018.

Hanni Toosbuy Kasprzak Net Worth: Hanni Toosbuy Kasprzak is a Danish businesswoman who has a net worth of $2.7 billion. Hanni Toosbuy Kasprzak rose to riches both as owner and chairman of a $1.3 billion (sales) Danish shoe manufacturer, Ecco, which was founded by her late father back in 1963. The brand, which celebrated its 50th anniversary last year, is now present in more than 90 countries and has more than 1,000 stores. Toosbuy became involved in the family business right after her graduation, and she got the chance to learn every single aspect of operation of the company shifting from one department into another. It was in 1997, after a stint in Germany, that she got back to Denmark to take over control as chairman. In addition to taking the helm of Ecco, Toosbuy also serves as vice chairman of Sydbank, the fourth largest bank in Denmark. Her husband, Dieter Kasprzak, was a chief designer at several leading shoe factories before joining Ecco. In 2004, following his father-in-law’s death, he got appointed as President, a position he still holds.