Glenn Cotterill’s long relationship with Foodstuffs began with his father who worked for the company for 25 years.
Now it is Cotterill who is nicknamed “The Grocer” after building up his supermarket empire from the purchase of the Te Puke New World in 1992.
Two years later he shifted to Whakatane Pak’n Save and in February 2002 bought the Tauranga Pak’n Save, which he operated for 10 years.
In 2013 he bought the huge Lincoln Rd Pak’nSave in the West Auckland suburb of Henderson.
The supermarket is one of the country’s largest, amassing Cotterill a fortune. Cotterill’s own property interests include a $6.6m Herne Bay home, which he shares with Auckland socialite Sally Ridge.
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2018: $65 million