Ron Burkle

Ron Burkle

Chairman at SOHO HOUSE & CO INC.

Net worth: 63 M $ as of 2024-03-30

70 year
Consumer Services
Retail Trade
Finance

Profile

Ronald Burkle entered in food sector when he was very young. At 13 years old, he worked part-time in Stater Brothers supermarket in Pomona. He was accepted at faculty of dental medicine, but he quickly gave up. He came back to work in supermarket and gradually moved up the ranks.

In 1981, the holding decided to sell the supermarket. Ron profited by the chance. With Berkshire Hathaway’s support, Burkle and his father made an offer to purchase. This was considered too low, and causes of his dismissal. “My father had worked there for most of his life. I thought the chance to own a business is presented once in a life and I had missed mine”.

In 1986, he founded The Yucaipa Company, called as small town of Southern California where he lived. This is a private equity, which in the follow years made lot of mergers and acquisitions for a value of $30 billion.

In 1997, the company merged with Food&Drug Smith Centers. Few months later, Fred Meyer Inc., a north-western US retailer merged with Burkle group. Together the two companies own 265 stores in 11 States.

Less than a year later, the giant Kroger, already the first supermarket chain in the United States proposed to purchase Smith-Fred Meyer for $13.5 billion. In 1999, when the merger is operational, the new company counts 2 200 stores in 31 States. Benefit for Yucaica: $1.8 billion.

Ron Burkle is on the board of Yahoo, Occidental Petroleum Corporation and Kaufman & Broad Home. Yucaipa holds 70% of stake in McDonald’s. Ron holds share in Pittsburgh Penguins, team of National Hockey League. He has also invested in the Puff Daddy’s production company. In April 2010, he joined the Weinstein brothers in order to propose to purchase Miramax studio from Walt Disney for $600 million.

He is known as staunch Democrat, he supported Hillary Clinton in her presidential campaign and he is Bill Clinton’s friend.

He is ranked by Forbes as 347th richest man in the world, with $3.2 billion.

Known holdings in public companies

CompanyDateNumber of sharesValuationValuation date
2023-12-30 10,871,215 ( 7.68% ) 62 M $ 2024-03-30
2023-12-30 200,000 ( 0.37% ) 1 M $ 2024-03-30

Ron Burkle active positions

CompaniesPositionStart
SOHO HOUSE & CO INC. Chairman 2011-12-31
LBI Entertainment, LLC Director/Board Member -
YC Holdings LLC Director/Board Member -
University of California, Los Angeles Corporate Officer/Principal -
Founder 2014-12-31
Director/Board Member -
Director/Board Member 2012-02-06
Poultry Tenant Ltd. Chairman -
The Ned (United Kingdom) Chairman -
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Connections

100 +

1st degree connections

52

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Linked companies

Listed companies6
KB HOME

Consumer Durables

OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION

Energy Minerals

KAUFMAN & BROAD SA

Consumer Durables

EIMSKIPAFÉLAG ÍSLANDS HF.

Transportation

AMERICOLD REALTY TRUST, INC.

Finance

SOHO HOUSE & CO INC.

Commercial Services

Private companies44

Distribution Services

Retail Trade

Retail Trade

Retail Trade

Retail Trade

Finance

Retail Trade

Technology Services

Distribution Services

Consumer Services

YC Holdings LLC

Consumer Non-Durables

Retail Trade

Consumer Services

Consumer Services

Commercial Services

Consumer Non-Durables

Consumer Services

Consumer Services

Commercial Services

The Yucaipa Equity Partners LP

Consumer Durables

Commercial Services

Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy

Consumer Services

Transportation

Consumer Services

Consumer Durables

Finance

Music Centers, Inc.

Consumer Services

Consumer Services

Finance

Transportation

Consumer Services

Poultry Tenant Ltd.

Finance

The Ned (United Kingdom)

Fred Meyer, Inc Foundation

Food4less Foundation

Hevolution Foundation

Consumer Services

Consumer Services

LBI Entertainment, LLC

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