Bruce Halle

Bruce Halle
Born May 27, 1930 (age 84)
Springfield, Massachusetts
Residence Paradise Valley, Arizona[1]
Citizenship USA
Education B.A. Eastern Michigan University[1]
Net worth Increase US$5.8 billion (March 2015)[1]
Spouse(s) married[1]
Children four[1]

Bruce Halle (born May 27, 1930) is the founder and Chairman of Discount Tire.[2][3]

Early life

Bruce Halle was born in May 27, 1930 Springfield, Massachusetts.[2] He graduated from Eastern Michigan University.[2][3]

Career

In 1960, he opened a tire store in Ann Arbor, Michigan.[2] It later became known as Discount Tire, and grew to over 900 stores in 28 states by 2014.[2]

As of 2014, he was the 248th richest person in the world, 87th richest in the United States, and richest in Arizona, with an estimated wealth of US$6 billion.[4]

Philanthropy

Through the Bruce T. Halle Family Foundation, he has made charitable donations to the Diane Halle Center for Family Justice at Arizona State University and to the Children First Academy, the nation's largest school for homeless children.[2] He has also made donations to the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society, the American Liver Foundation, the American Red Cross, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Childhelp, the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, and the Muscular Dystrophy Association.[3]

In Arizona, he supports the Arizona Boys and Girls Clubs, the Arizona Opera League, the Phoenix Symphony, the Scottsdale Symphony, the Crisis Nursery, the Arizona Kidney Foundation, Phoenix Children’s Hospital. He was the first to pledge charter membership of the Children's Urban Survival Program in Phoenix.[3] The Bruce T. Halle Library on his alma mater campus is named for him.

He has a collection of 400 unique lithographs from the earliest days of tire advertisements.[2][5] The Diane and Bruce Halle Collection is a private collection of 20th- and 21st-century art from Latin America based in Scottsdale, Arizona.[6]

Personal life

He is married with four children, and he lives in Paradise Valley, Arizona.[2][7]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Forbes: The World's Billionaires: "Bruce Halle" March 2015
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Forbes profile
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Eastern Michigan University biography
  4. ↑ http://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/
  5. ↑ Edwin Lurgy, 'Bruce Halle On His Passion For Antique Tire Art', in Forbes, Sep 22, 2011
  6. ↑ Aspen Ideas Festival
  7. ↑ Dawson Fearnow, 'Valley’s Richest Revealed', in Desert Living Today, March 10, 2011