Barend van der vorm biography of williams
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The secretive family of Dutch billionaires who used to control Ray-Ban got as much as $4 billion richer this summer, and no one knows how they'll spend the money
A secretive family of Dutch billionaires will end with as much as an extra $4 billion in their family trust after having sold Ray-Ban owner GrandVision to another eyewear company this summer.
The Van der Vorms built the majority of their $ billion fortune off a cruise line that Willem Van der Vorms sold to Carnival for $ million in , according to The New York Times.
In July, The Van der Vorms sold GrandVision to Franco-Italian eyewear empire EssilorLuxottica for billion euros ($ billion), Bloomberg reported at the time.
At the time, the family owned 77% of GrandVision and profited as much as $4 billion from the sale.
The profits from the sale will be put into HAL, the publicly traded trust controlled by the Van der Vorms, according to Bloomberg.
As for where the money will go, there's currently little clarity: Th