Elisio Soares dos Santos, Portuguese Retail Mogul, Dies at 84
- Ran the biggest supermarket chain in Portugal and Poland
- He said his family won’t ever sell Jeronimo Martins SGPS
Source: Presidency of the Portuguese Republic
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Elisio Alexandre Soares dos Santos, who oversaw retailer Jeronimo Martins SGPS SA’s international expansion and was ranked as one of Portugal’s richest men, has died. He was 84.
Soares dos Santos died in Lisbon late on Friday after a long battle with cancer, said Sara Miranda, a spokeswoman for the family. “I don’t know how my day will be tomorrow,” he said, discussing his mortality in a television interview published on Feb. 25 by Portuguese news website Observador.