Paul Lederer is the former CEO of Primo Group, and co-owner of

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club

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Business

Lederer started his professional career by joining his uncle's manufacturing business in his early twenties. In 1985, Andrew Lederer started Primo Smallgoods by buying the Mayfair ham factory in

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and Paul Lederer became one of the first 38 new employees. Lederer inherited

Primo Smallgoods Primo Foods (formerly Primo Smallgoods) is an Australian food and beverage company based in Chullora in Western Sydney. They are the largest producer of ham, bacon and smallgoods in the Southern Hemisphere. Primo was founded in 1985 by Hunga ...

when his uncle died in 2004. Between 2004 and 2015, Lederer served as CEO of Primo Smallgoods, until the company was sold in 2015 to JBS for 1.45

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. Lederer now heads the

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Lederer Group. Since 2015 the Lederer Group has built a commercial property portfolio and has interests in dairy manufacture and supply.

Western Sydney Wanderers FC

In May 2014 Lederer was part of a four-member consortium that bought the licence to operate the

Western Sydney Wanderers FC Western Sydney Wanderers Football Club (colloquially known as Western Sydney, Wanderers, or simply as WSW) is an Australian professional association football, association football club based in the Western Sydney region of Sydney, New South W ...

from 30 June 2014. In 2018, Lederer was elected the new chairman of the Australian Professional Football Club Association, serving later as a regular board member then leaving the board entirely in late 2023. Lederer was the Chairman of the Wanderers until 2024 when he stepped down to be replaced by Jefferson Cheng. In 1986, Lederer's uncle, Andrew, was awarded the

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for service to soccer.

Personal life

Lederer is married to Eva Marie and they have two children.

Net worth

In 2014, the ''

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'' (BRW) Rich List assessed Lederer's

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as 635 million. , ''

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'' Rich List, which replaced the ''BRW'' List, assessed Lederer's net worth as 1.94 billion.

References

Living people A-League Men executives Year of birth missing (living people) Hungarian emigrants to Australia Australian business executives Australian billionaires {{Australia-footy-bio-stub