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Hendrik Meijer (December 28, 1883 – May 31, 1964) was a Dutch businessman who founded the supercenter chain Meijer in the United States. He is the great-grandfather of former Republican Michigan congressman Peter Meijer.
Industrial/Commercial Leader. Hendrick Meijer is the founder of the current Meijer super center retail chain serving five States in the Midwest. The Meijer retail chain has managed to grow in recent years while successfully competing against Walmart and other large national retailers.
By Michael F. Carmichael. July/August 2009. Meijer started 75 years ago, in the midst of the Depression, because Hendrik Meijer couldn’t find a tenant for the empty space he had next door to his barbershop. Meijer, a 50-year-old immigrant barber from the Netherlands, had his own shop in Greenville, a small town northeast of Grand ...
Hank Meijer is the grandson of the founder of the Meijer super center retailing chain and the co-CEO and co-chairman of the firm. He is also a writer and a historian who authored a biography of his grandfather and a biography of Senator Arthur Vandenberg.
7 de jun. de 2022 · Jun 7, 2022. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., June 7, 2022 / PRNewswire / -- Sixty years ago Hendrik and Fred Meijer opened a store in Grand Rapids called "Thrifty Acres" – and pioneered the American supercenter. While that innovative concept has grown into a retail phenomenon, Meijer remains a strong family company that is always committed to ...
9 de jul. de 2023 · NAMES-FACES. Steve VanderVeen: Hendrik Meijer gets his competitive advantage. Community Columnist. Hendrik Meijer’s story inspires us to never discount a factory worker or a barber’s...
15 de nov. de 2010 · Retail magnate Frederik Gerhard Hendrik Meijer is one such person; and in Fred Meijer: Stories of His Life his pleasantly old-fangled (but never out-of-fashion) beliefs and admirable deeds are celebrated by those who have known the man.
