Mijndert Pon (82) died

Posted on 21-07-2014 at 7:46 pm by sir_smokalot – 20 Comments”

Mijndert Pon, a descendant of the famous Pon-sex, which is the leading car importer of the Netherlands developed, at the age of 82 died. He was, until 1990, the last Pon which as ceo in the family business was active.

The history of the Pon group of companies will many of you be known: Ben Pon sr., as the son of Mijndert Pon, a representative of the second generation of the family business, was the first in 1947, the Beetle to the Netherlands and was responsible for the arrival of the Type 2.

His 3 sons built further on the Third-generation Pon: Wijnand (1944) is the benjamin, and with an estimated capital of 2 billion euros for the richest, Ben jr (1936) the middle, and Mijndert (1932) was the eldest of the usually in the media is very silent trio. After his retirement, Pon Holding, in 1990, laid Mijndert as brother Ben on the vine.

Where Am Pon a vineyard in California york, was looking for Mijndert (estimated power: 440 million euro), the further south, in Argentina. Bodegas Salentein was an homage to the eponymous estate in Nijkerk, and also Bodegas Callia came from Pon-hand. Mijndert seems in the land of huge pieces of land have been purchased.

As I said, prefer the brothers, usually, the anonymity towards the outside world, and so we don’t know more than that Mijndert to a complication to his health ” has died, according to a statement of Bodega Salentein. In The Telegraph appeared this weekend a newspaper obituary, in it is to read that Mijndert Pon in Amersfoort in a closed circle would be buried.

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