Theodor Paul Albrecht, generally known as Theo Albrecht (born March 28, 1922), is a German entrepreneur, who in 2007 was ranked by Forbes magazine as the 20th richest person in the world, with a net worth of $17.5 billion. He owns the Trader Joe's specialty grocery store chain and was CEO of Aldi. He and his brother Karl Albrecht owned the Aldi discount supermarket chain. In 1971, Theo was kidnapped for 17 days. Wikipedia
After World War II Theo and his older brother, Karl, transformed their mother's corner grocery store into discount supermarket giant Aldi, which now has more than 7,000 stores and 45 billion in sales. www.forbes.com/lists/2006/10/787P.html
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