HOLLAND -- The success of Hendrik Meijer was a result of trial and a lot of errors, said Hank Meijer, his grandson and the CEO and co-chairman of the Walker-based chain of discount grocery and ...
Meijer Inc., one of the earliest pioneers of the supercenter format, was born 75 years ago because Hendrik Meijer's barber shop business was slowing down — and because neither A&P nor Kroger was ...
When your last name is Meijer, there's no such thing as a quick trip to the grocery store. It's something Hank and Doug Meijer learned at a young age by watching their father and retail magnate Fred ...
Amidst the Great Depression in 1934, Hendrik Meijer, a local barber in Greenville, Mich., took a chance and opened Meijer’s Grocery with his wife, Gezina, and their children, 18-year-old Johanna and ...