PORTRAIT. Who is Frits van Eerd, CEO of Jumbo?: “It must progress, but also remain fun and cozy”

This morning the Dutch Fiscal Intelligence and Investigation Service (FIOD) and the police raided Frits van Eerd’s villa. Over the past 20 years, Van Eerd (57) has expanded a small family business into a chain of almost 700 Jumbo department stores. Portrait of the man who once scored a hit with a carnival cracker as ‘Fritske’. He has already won victories in his bright yellow racing car, but compared to his supermarkets, those successes are small.

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