Juan Roig
Juan Roig Alfonso is a Spanish billionaire businessman, president of Mercadona, the Spanish supermarket chain.
- The richest grocer in Spain, Juan Roig is president and majority owner of supermarket giant Mercadona.
- Roig, his brother Fernando and wife Hortensia Herrero, also billionaires, bought the chain in 1981 from the Roigs’ father when it had just 8 stores.
- By 2006, Mercadona had opened its 1,000th store; it now has more than 1,600 locations.
- Mercadona’s 79,000 employees receive a 25% share of the company’s pretax profits.
