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American billionaire businessman

Leonard Norman Stern (born March 28, 1938) is an American billionaire businessman, and philanthropist. He is the chairman and CEO of the privately owned Hartz Group based in New York City. The company's real estate portfolio was owned and operated under its Hartz Mountain Industries subsidiary company, of which he is also chairman and CEO.

Stern was born to a Jewish family, the son of Hilda (née Lowenthal) and Max Stern. By 1984, Hartz Mountain Corporation (HMC) controlled 75% to 90% of the U. S. market for most U. S. pet supply goods Its pet supply business was estimated to be worth $400 million and was earning $40 million in annual profits. In the mid 1980s Leonard Stern bought the alternative New York City weekly alternative newspaper The Village Voice eventually sold to New Times Media.

According to the unsigned cover article, "Dynasty In Distress" in the February 9, 2004 issue of Business Week, Stern was "intensely engaged" as a board member of Rite Aid in the mid to late '90s when the drugstore chain admitted to overstating net income by $1 billion over two years.

He was the founder in 1986 and is chairman of Homes for the Homeless. According to its website, it serves over 630 homeless families and over 1,200 homeless children each day at five separate sites across New York City. Stern collected Cycladic antiquities in the 1980s–now under custodianship of the Hellenic Ancient Culture Institute, lending objects to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and to the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens.