Nathan Kirsh

Net worth over time

Biography

• The bulk of Nathan "Natie" Kirsh's fortune comes from U.S.-based Jetro Holdings, which owns restaurant supply stores Jetro Cash and Carry and Restaurant Depot.
• Kirsh owns 70% of the company, which supplies wholesale goods to bodegas, small stores and restaurants in the United States.
• Kirsh made his first fortune in his native Swaziland, where he launched a corn milling business in 1958.
• He expanded into wholesale food distribution in apartheid South Africa, and then into supermarkets and commercial property development.
• Kirsh owns one of London's tallest skyscrapers, Tower 42, which is home to more than 50 international companies.
• Kirsh's charitable efforts focus on Swaziland, where he has supplied more than 12,000 people with starter capital for small businesses.

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