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Australian businessman
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About Rudie Sypkes
- Rudie Sypkes (May 1950 – 8 February 2008) was an Australian businessman from Tasmania.
- Sypkes was the co-founder of the Chickenfeed retail chain.Sypkes was born in Tasmania to immigrant parents from the Netherlands.
- He began his business career by helping his father, Engel, found the Purity supermarket chain.
- Sypkes later founded, with his brother, Peter launched the Chickenfeed Bargain Stores, a chain of discount retail stores located throughout Tasmania.
- They sold the Chickenfeed chain in 2001 for an estimated $35 million Australian dollars.
- Sypkes often quietly contributed to philanthropic causes throughout Tasmania using his personal fortune.Sypkes revealed in July 2007 that he had been diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and donated A$600,000 towards research into respiratory disease.
- Sypkes died suddenly and unexpectedly at a hospital in Tasmania on 8 February 2008.
- He had been on a waiting list for a lung transplant for nine months.
- He was survived by his wife, Beth, and three children, Andrew, Sharon and Luke.
