Shapira family

Operators of the supermarket chain, Giant Eagle, which serves the Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland and Indiana regions, with over 410 locations. In 1968, Saul Shapira became president of the company, which was founded in 1931 by five families.
After 35 years with Giant Eagle and having expanded the chain across Pittsburgh and into neighbouring states, Saul Shapira retired in 1980. He left his son, David Shapira, grandson co-founder, Joseph Goldstein, to take over the company. David’s brothers, Daniel and Ralph Shapira, became lawyers. Their sister, Edith, opened her own psychiatric practice.
David Shapira’s daughter, Laura Karet Shapira, succeeded her father and became CEO of Giant Eagle in 2012. She had previously held marketing executive positions at Sara Lee before joining Giant Eagle as Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer. Laura Karet Shapira was honoured by Progressive Grocer magazine’s Top Women in Grocery in 2010. David Shapira remains Chairman of Giant Eagle, which ranks as one of America’s largest private companies by Forbes, and which earns a yearly revenue of over $8 billion.