Aldo Group International

Aldo Group International

Aldo Bensadoun founded Aldo Group International AG as the investment vehicle for wealth created by ALDO, the footwear and accessories retailer he launched in Montreal in 1972. The operating company remains privately held by the Bensadoun family, and the family office manages the proceeds of a business that operates nearly 3,000 stores across more than 100 countries, alongside wholesale and e-commerce channels. David Bensadoun, Aldo's son, serves as CEO of the retail operations, while the family office pursues a parallel investment mandate. The family office's strategy concentrates on two lanes: direct real estate holdings and venture-stage consumer investments. In real estate, the Bensadoun family has acquired commercial properties including a significant position in Montreal's Le Windsor building and retail-adjacent real assets in North America and Europe. The venture portfolio skews toward consumer brands and retail technology, with the office participating in seed and Series A rounds for companies that intersect with its operating expertise in global supply chains, wholesale distribution, and direct-to-consumer models. With dual headquarters in Zug and New York, the office maintains a transatlantic footprint consistent with the family's operating business presence. The Zug domicile reflects the Swiss holding structure common among European family offices. Team size is not publicly disclosed, but the office draws on the deep retail-operations bench from the ALDO company, giving it the ability to diligence consumer deals with operator-level rigor. The Bensadoun family also maintains significant philanthropic commitments through the ALDO Group's long-running charitable programs. A rare structural advantage separates Aldo Group International from pure financial family offices: it sits adjacent to a living, global operating company. The Bensadoun family can diligence consumer-brand investments using real SKU-level data, retail leases, and supply-chain relationships that pure financial investors cannot access. That operating adjacency allows the office to act as a strategic co-investor rather than a passive LP, particularly in footwear, accessories, and adjacent categories where the family's four decades of operational knowledge creates proprietary diligence capacity.