Louis Le Duff

$1.84B

as of 10/04/24

About 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 Dor?e bakery in Brittany with just $2,000.

Groupe Le Duff operates more than 1,000 bakery and restaurant locations, including La Madeleine French eateries chain in the U.S. and Del Arte in France.

His restaurants now feed 1 million customers every day across 100 countries.

Le Duff owned Bruegger's bagels chain until September 2017, when he sold it to Caribou Coffee Company.

Personal stats

Citizenship

France

Source of wealth

Bakeries

Residence

Paris, France

Marital status

Married

Birth date

08/01/46 (age 78)

Number of children

Self-made

self-made

Louis Le Duff’s fortune is worth

31K

troy ounces of gold

28K

median U.S. household

18K

median U.S. income

0.037%

U.S. credit card volume

0.007%

GDP of the United States

0.005%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

In the summer of 1970, when Le Duff studied at Columbia University in the City of New York, he worked night shifts at a French creperie on 3rd Street.