G Willi Food International

G Willi Food International

G Willi Food International Ltd. was founded in 1994 by brothers Zvi and Joseph Williger and listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange in 1997. The operating business is a leading importer and distributor of kosher food products in Israel, supplying roughly 1,500 retail points across the country. The wealth originates from this cash-generative distribution engine, which gave the founding family the liquidity to build a parallel investment structure. The family's investment posture is bifurcated. The public vehicle distributes food; the private capital sits in G. Willi-Food Investments Ltd., a holding company majority-controlled by the Williger brothers. Through this structure — and via another entity, Willi-Food Investments — the family deploys capital predominantly into U.S. commercial real estate. Confirmed holdings have included retail-anchored shopping centers in Florida and Georgia, signaling a direct, buy-and-lease strategy for hard assets generating dollar-denominated cash flow. The firm has also taken minority stakes in publicly traded food companies, such as its long-held position in German seafood processor, followed by Swiss-Irish food conglomerate Aryzta. G Willi Food's scale as an operating company is modest — annual revenues typically range between $30M and $50M — but the family's net worth, tied largely to its real estate book, has been estimated by Israeli financial daily Globes at over NIS 200 million (per Globes, 2022). Zvi Williger serves as CEO of the public food entity, while Joseph Williger holds the chairmanship. In December 2022, the company completed a restructuring that merged its two publicly-traded food subsidiaries, consolidating the listed vehicle under a single operational structure (per the firm's official communications, December 2022). There are no disclosed philanthropic vehicles or club affiliations. G Willi Food International is structurally distinct because it is a publicly listed operating company that functions, in parallel, as a family office. The Willigers' investment in U.S. real estate is not done inside the listed entity — it is conducted through a separate, privately-held holding company that collects dividends from the food business and recycles them into hard assets. This architecture gives the family permanent capital for real estate acquisitions while maintaining the liquidity and transparency of a public listing for the food operation, a dual-structure rare in Israeli family-controlled groups.