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

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businessman, the owner and president of the Spanish football club

Villarreal Villarreal (officially, in ) is a city and municipality in the province of Castellón which is part of the Valencian Community in the east of Spain. The town is located at 42 m above sea level, 7 km to the south of the province's capital ( ...

, owner and president of Spanish ceramic company Pamesa and owner of 9% of the Spanish supermarket chain

Mercadona Mercadona (, ) is a Spanish supermarket chain, with 1,618 stores across Spain and 61 in Portugal (as of 04/2025). The company was founded by Francisco Roig Ballester and his wife, Trinidad Alfonso Mocholi in 1977. Mercadona began as a small but ...

. 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 the Spanish supermarket chain Mercadona and Valencia Basket. As of November 2024, his net worth was estimated at US$6 billion. Early life Juan Roig was ...

, is the CEO and majority shareholder, his wife Hortensia Herrero owns 28% of the Spanish supermarket chain

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

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, Spain.

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