Josef Boquoi

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Josef (also Joseph) H. Boquoi (* 1934 ) is a German euro billionaire and founder of Bofrost , the world's largest direct seller of frozen food. On the list of the 500 richest Germans in 2013, he was ranked 116th with an estimated private fortune of 1.2 billion euros.

Life

Josef Boquoi graduated from business school and completed a business apprenticeship in Hamburg . His father Jean ran a small coffee and grain roastery in Issum ; 1957 son Joseph took over the business. In 1966 he founded a direct sales company for frozen goods. His company Bofrost (abbreviation for Boquoi-frost) started with self-made ice cream. In the 1970s, he used the franchising business form, which was not very well known in Germany , in order to be able to grow faster. The group subsequently expanded into 13 European countries, grew to over 6,000 employees in Germany alone and generated sales of 1.3 billion euros. In 2013, Josef Boquoi gave up the management of the bofrost * Family Foundation.

At the end of 2001 Boquoi also joined the Frankfurt holding company WCM. He held between 5 and 10 percent of the Düsseldorf bakery Kamps AG and a seat on its supervisory board until he was replaced in 2002 after the takeover by the Italian pasta manufacturer Luca Barilla .

In March 2013 Boquoi was awarded the contract for 5,300 apartments for the Gelsenkirchen-based Vivawest group for 168.1 million euros; the largest shareholder in Vivawest is the RAG Foundation . At that time, the former state finance minister Helmut Linssen was responsible for finances on the RAG-Stiftung's board of directors.

Boquoi is married for the third time, in official résumés two daughters and a son from the first marriage are named. The information is contradictory: from 2008 onwards, son Jean Michael Boquoi (* 1958 ) led the way with the stepbrother from the food newspaper and in an employee blog. Thomas Stoffmehl (* 1971 ) the strategically and operationally active advisory board of the family foundation, whereby Stoffmehl has since left the company.

Boquoi lives with his family in Pont (Geldern) and is the owner of Winnenthal Castle . Despite his advanced age, he still takes part in tennis tournaments and feels committed to the sport as a patron .

Controversy

Due to the planned acquisition of 2,500 hectares of public forest ( state forest from land ownership) in the northern Eifel for Boquois Family Foundation came in 2009 to local protests. The SPD opposition and CDU party friends accused Finance Minister Helmut Linssen of doing a "service of friendship" to his longtime hunting companion Boquoi. The sale came off anyway.

Boquoi also clashed with the works council during his active entrepreneurship. Even the European Court of Justice had to act in 2001 to decide a contentious point between the works council and management.

In 2011 Boquoi sued against being included in the list of the richest Germans in Manager-Magazin; however, the District Court of Munich I dismissed the action.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karsten Langer: "We got it from keeping" . November 10, 2003.
  2. ↑ Josef H. Boquoi: "We got it from keeping" - manager magazin. In: manager magazin. Retrieved June 20, 2016 .
  3. ↑ bofrost: bofrost * group of companies - data and facts. July 1, 2016, accessed on September 14, 2016 (German).
  4. ↑ The new Boquoi. In: Lebensmittelzeitung.net. Retrieved June 20, 2016 .
  5. ↑ a b [1] . August 30, 2013.
  6. ^ EQS Group AG, Munich, Germany: Kamps AG english - dgap.de. Retrieved March 5, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Josef H. Boquoi - The Patriarch. In: Frostmann. October 16, 2012, accessed June 20, 2016 .
  8. ↑ The new Boquoi. In: Lebensmittelzeitung.net. Retrieved June 20, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Thomas Stoffmehl now on the advisory board. In: Lebensmittelzeitung.net. Retrieved June 20, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Antje Höning: The Frozen King from the Lower Rhine report in daily Rheinische Post of 17 June 2017. Retrieved on June 18, 2017
  11. ^ TC BW-Issum eV - Project tennis hall. In: www.tcissum.de. Retrieved June 20, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Jürgen Stock: Dispute over forest sale to Bofrost , RP online, March 2, 2009
  13. ↑ NABU continues to fight against the sale of national forests in the Eifel, Agra-Europe online archive, April 6, 2009
  14. ↑ Former Finance Minister Linssen in need of explanation , Der Spiegel, May 29, 2015
  15. ↑ CURIA - documents. In: curia.europa.eu. Retrieved June 20, 2016 .
  16. ↑ Boquoi does not want a rich list , RP online, April 7, 2011
  17. ↑ Wealth of the Bofrost founder. Scheffeln and be silent , taz, June 13, 2011
  18. ^ Judgment: Bofrost founder loses - legitimate interest in his assets , Augsburger Allgemeine, April 8, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Boquoi, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boquoi, Josef H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 1934