Bruce Halle
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| Born |
May 27, 1930 Springfield, Massachusetts, US |
| Residence | Paradise Valley, Arizona, US |
| Citizenship | American |
| Alma mater | Eastern Michigan University |
| Net worth | US$8.5 billion (August 2016) |
| Spouse(s) | Married |
| Children | 4 |
Bruce Halle (born May 27, 1930) is an American businessman and the founder and chairman of Discount Tire. He is the wealthiest person in Phoenix, Arizona.
Bruce Halle was born on May 27, 1930, in Springfield, Massachusetts. He graduated from Eastern Michigan University.
In 1960, he opened a tire store in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It later became known as Discount Tire, and grew to over 900 stores in 28 states by 2014.
As of 2014, he was the 248th richest person in the world, 87th richest in the US, and richest in Arizona, with an estimated wealth of US$6 billion.
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. 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.
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. The Bruce T. Halle Library on his alma mater campus is named for him.
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