Background
Bernheim, Emile was born on October 18, 1886 in Mulhouse, France. Son of Julien and Marie (Meyer) Bernheim.
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Emile Bernheim, Retail business executive. Decorated Commander de l'ordre de Leopold, Officier de la Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur'Honneur, Grand Officier de l'Ordre Couronne, Commandeur de l'Ordre du Merite Commercial (France), Commander de l'Ordre de la Rose Blanche (Finland), Commander de l'Ordre du Merite italien; named to Hall of Fame in Distribution Boston Conference on Distribution.
Career
Foreign more than half a century he was the president of the store A l"innovation in Brussels, which he founded in 1897 in Brussels. Soon other stores followed in Liege (1899), Verviers (1900), Ghent (1900) and Antwerp (1906). Besides being an entrepreneur he took several initiatives to support the arts and sciences.
He founded the Bernheim Foundation, the Belgian Vocation Foundation and the Centre Emile Bernheim (Continuing Education of the Bar) at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
He died at the age of 99.
Achievements
Membership
Member special mission to study commercial education in the United States, 1927. Board directors Brussels U. Center for Business Administration. General director Belgian Ministry of Food Supplies, 1919-1920, leader Belgian delegate Rye Conference, 1944.
Vice president Hopital Francais Reine Elizabeth. Honorary vice president Les Enfants de la Patrie. Board directors Belgian Industry Universities Foundation Business Administration With Belgian Army.
1914-1918; Member International Chamber of Commerce (board directors, member Belgian national committee), International Distribution Commission (honorary chairman), International Association Department Stores (president), Association des Grandes Enterprises de Distribution de Belgique (past president), National Belge de l'Organisation Science (vice president), Caisse de Compensation pour Allocations Familiales des Grands Magasins de Belgique (president), Caisse National Belge Magasins de Belge d'Assurance (board directors), International Federation Distbrs. (president), International Academy Management, National Retail Merchants. Association (board directors).
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Married Suzanne Yvonne Chabot, October 17, 1923.
