Name
Daniela Herz
Daniela Herz
Hamburg, Germany
Germany
coffee
$3,300,000,000
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#667 Billionaires 2019
Daniela Herz-Schnoeckel is the only daughter of coffee magnate Max Herz and his wife, Ingeburg. (Max died in 1965; Ingeburg, in 2015.)In 2003, she and brother Guenter sold their combined 40% interest in the family holding company, maxingvest ag, for an estimated $5 billion.maxingvest owns the coffee/consumer goods and services retailer Tchibo and a stake in listed skin-care company Beiersdorf, whose brands include Nivea.Daniela and Guenter make private equity investments through Mayfair SE, which, in 2006, acquired shipping classification company Germanischer Lloyd.GL later merged with Det Norske Veritas (DNV) of Norway and in 2017, Mayfair sold its 36.5% stake to DNV GL for an undisclosed sum.
Max Herz came up the idea of opening stores where coffee could be both sipped and sold over the counter -- a forerunner to Starbucks.Mayfair owns 45% of Vapiano Group, a franchiser of self-serve Italian food restaurants that had its IPO in 2017.
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