Rank #756
Michel Leclercq & family
Net worth $5.5B
Sporting goods · France
- Born
- May 27, 1939
- Age
- 87
- Source
- Sporting goods
- Residence
- Lille
- Citizenship
- France
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 4
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Michel Leclercq set up a small sporting goods store called Decathlon in 1976.
- It's now one of the world's largest athletic retailers with more than $16.5 billion in sales from more than 1,700 stores in 60 countries.
- Leclercq is cousin of Gerard Mulliez, the patriarch of the famed French retail dynasty behind Auchan department stores.
- Leclerq and his immediate family own approximately 40% of the company; the extended Mulliez family own about 40% as well.