Christophe Bonduelle
BornDecember 14, 1959
Renescure, Nord-Pas-de-Calais (now Hauts-de-France), France
NationalityFrench
Alma materEDHEC Business School
SpouseIsabelle Simon
Children4
Parent(s)Félix Bonduelle
Bernadette Lemesre

Christophe Bonduelle (born December 14, 1959) is a French heir and businessman. He serves as the chairman and chief executive officer of Bonduelle.

Early life

Christophe Bonduelle was born on December 14, 1959, in Renescure, France.[1][2] His father, Félix Bonduelle, was a Commercial Director of Bonduelle.[1] His mother was Bernadette Lemesre.[3] He has two brothers, Benoit and Marc, and two sisters, Veronique and Charlotte.[3] Louis Bonduelle-Dalle, his paternal great-great-grandfather, co-founded Bonduelle with Louis Lesaffre-Roussel in 1853.[4]

Bonduelle graduated from the EDHEC Business School in 1982.[5]

Career

Bonduelle started his business career Map Conseils, followed by the Imprimerie Hemmerlé.[2]

Bonduelle joined the family business, Bonduelle, in 1985.[1] He was the manager of its factory in Beauvais.[1] He later opened branches in Spain and Portugal.[1] He has served as its chairman since 2001 and as its chief executive officer since 2005.[2][6][7] He established the Louis Bonduelle Foundation to promote the consumption of vegetables in 2005.[2] Five years later, in 2010, he opened a new factory in Brazil.[2]

Bonduelle has served on the board of directors of the Association Nationale des Industries Alimentaires (ANIA) since 2005.[8] He was the 2011 recipient of the "Chaptal 2011 de l'industrie" award from the Société d'Encouragement pour l'Industrie Nationale.[2]

In 2009, he had an estimated wealth of Euro 261 million.[2]

Personal life

Bonduelle is married to Isabelle Simon.[2] They have four children.[1][2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Alexandre Lenoir, La saga d'une gros se légume, L'Express, July 13, 2007
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Christophe Bonduelle, Libre Service Actualités, May 18, 2011
  3. 1 2 Christophe Bonduelle, GeneaNet
  4. ↑ 160 ans, mais toujours aussi jeune: Christophe Bonduelle – Bonduelle Archived 2015-05-26 at the Wayback Machine, EY
  5. ↑ Les barons de la bourse: Christophe Bonduelle, Zone Bourse
  6. ↑ Christophe Bonduelle, Bloomberg Business
  7. ↑ "Bonduelle: Board of Directors". Archived from the original on 2015-05-25. Retrieved 2015-05-29.
  8. ↑ "Association Nationale des Industries Alimentaires: Board of Directors". Archived from the original on 2015-06-28. Retrieved 2015-05-30.


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