Paul Lederer is the former CEO of Primo Group, and Chairman and co-owner of
A-League
A-League Men (known as the Isuzu UTE A-League for sponsorship reasons) is the highest-level professional men's soccer league in Australia and New Zealand. At the top of the Australian league system, it is the country's premier men's competiti ...
club
Western Sydney Wanderers.
Business
Lederer started his professional career by joining his uncle's manufacturing business in his early twenties. In 1985, Andrew Lederer started Primo Smallgoods by buying the Mayfair ham factory in
Sydney
Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountain ...
and Paul Lederer became one of the first 38 new employees. Lederer inherited
Primo Smallgoods
Primo Foods (formerly Primo Smallgoods), is an Australian food and beverage company based in Chullora in Western Sydney, is the largest producer of ham, bacon and smallgoods in the Southern Hemisphere.
Primo was founded in 1985 by Hungaria ...
when his uncle died in 2004.
Between 2004 and 2015, Lederer served as CEO of Primo Smallgoods, until the company was sold in 2015 to
JBS for 1.45
billion.
Lederer now heads the
privately-owned
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in the respective listed markets, but rather the company's stock is ...
Lederer Group. Since 2015 the Lederer Group has built a commercial property portfolio and has interests in dairy manufacture and supply.
Western Sydney Wanderers FC
In May 2014 Lederer was part of a four-member consortium that bought the licence to operate the
Western Sydney Wanderers FC from 30 June 2014.
In 2018, Lederer was elected the new chairman of the
Australian Professional Football Club Association.
In 1986, Lederer's uncle, Andrew, was awarded the
Medal of the Order of Australia for service to soccer.
Personal life
Lederer is married to Eva Marie and they have two children.
Net worth
In 2014, the ''
Business Review Weekly'' (BRW) Rich List assessed Lederer's
net worth
Net worth is the value of all the non-financial and financial assets owned by an individual or institution minus the value of all its outstanding liabilities. Since financial assets minus outstanding liabilities equal net financial assets, net ...
as 635 million.
and in 2017 his net worth was assessed as 824 million.
In 2020, ''
The Australian Financial Review''
Rich List assessed Lederer's net worth as 1.36 billion;
and increased to 1.39 billion in 2021.
References
Living people
A-League Men executives
Year of birth missing (living people)
Hungarian emigrants to Australia
Australian business executives
Australian billionaires
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