Fernando Roig Alfonso (born 25 June 1947) is a Spanish

billionaire A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least 1,000,000,000, one billion (1,000,000,000, i.e., a thousand million) units of a given currency, usually of a major currency such as the United States dollar, euro, or pound sterling. The ...

businessman, the owner and president of the Spanish football club

Villarreal CF Villarreal Club de Fútbol, S.A.D. ( ca-valencia, Vila-real Club de Futbol, S.A.D.), usually abbreviated to Villarreal CF or simply Villarreal, is a professional football club based in Villarreal, in the Castellón province of eastern Spain, ...

, and owner of 9% of the Spanish supermarket chain

Mercadona Mercadona (, ) is a Spanish supermarket chain. Mercadona has 1,636 stores in all the 17 Spanish regions, Ceuta, Melilla and in Portugal. Mercadona was ranked the 9th most reputable company in the world in 2009, by the Reputation Institute as liste ...

. As of October 2021, ''

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'' estimated his net worth at US$1.7 billion. His brother

Juan Roig Juan Roig Alfonso (born 8 October 1949) is a Spanish billionaire businessman, president of Mercadona, the Spanish supermarket chain. As of November 2021, his net worth was estimated at US$4.4 billion. Early life Juan Roig was born on 8 October ...

, is the CEO and majority shareholder, his wife

Hortensia Herrero Hortensia Herrero Chacón (born 20 May 1950) is a Spanish billionaire businesswoman, and owner of 28% of Mercadona, a Spanish supermarket chain. As of February 2021, ''Forbes'' estimates her net worth at US $2.6 billion. Early life She was born ...

owns 28% of the Spanish supermarket chain

. Roig is married, with two children, and lives in

Valencia Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is also the capital of the province of the same name. The wider urban area al ...

, Spain.

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