Louis Le Duff

Louis Le Duff got his start when he opened a combined restaurant-bakery in a Quebec ski resort while studying abroad for his MBA.In 1976, he took the concept back to France and opened the first Brioche Dorée bakery in Brittany with just $2,000.His restaurants now feed 1 million customers every day across 100 countries.Groupe Le Duff's $2.1 billion in sales comes from more than 1,650 bakery and restaurant locations, including chains La Madeleine French eateries.Le Duff owned Bruegger's bagels chain until September 2017, when he sold it to Caribou Coffee Company.