The Meijer Family – $7.3B
Based in Michigan, this really large private company is owned by the Meijer family and was established by Hendrik Meijer almost a century ago after he moved from the Netherlands to the U.S.. Five decades later, the business became one of the country’s largest supermarket chains and by the 1960s, its worth had reached billions. Today, Doug and Hank Meijer run the company and they steered the firm to massive success in the twentieth century. While they have since appointed others to oversee the company’s day-to-day affairs, this family business remains booming for the Meijer clan.
The Meijer Family – $7.3B
The Green Family – $7B
At the beginning of the 1970s, David Green used the money he had – $600 – to start his own company. Within two years, this transformed into the flagship empire of his family: a really large chain of arts and crafts stores called Hobby Lobby. Privately owning Hobby Lobby, Green and his family invested in different religious causes across the globe, though they often got into trouble due to these holdings. Most infamously, the company was caught smuggling various archeological items that were from looted digs in Israel and Iraq – and attempting to use these artifacts in a Bible museum. Hobby Lobby was forced to take the smuggled artifacts back and fined $3 million.
The Green Family – $7B