- Source of Wealth: Supermarkets
- Age: 81
- Marital Status: Single
- Full Name: Charles Clarence Butt
- Nationality: United States
- Date of Birth: February 3, 1938
- Occupation: Businessman
- Education: University of Pennsylvania Wharton School (BAASc)
- Children: None
American businessman and grocer, Charles Butt, and family has a net worth of $6.64 billion in July 2017, according to Bloomberg. Charles Butt best known for the HEB supermarket chain in Texas and northern Mexico. The Texas-born Charles Butt started working as a bag boy at the age of eight in his father’s supermarket. His grandmother Florence Butt, founded H.E. Butt Grocery in 1905 from a small house in Kerrville, Texas. Charles Butt graduated from University of Wharton School with a Bachelor of Arts / Science and earned a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. He took over the family’s H-E-B supermarket chain in 1971.The H-E-B grocery chain now boasts an annual sales of over $15 billion and has stores in Louisiana and Mexico with headquarter in San Antonio. The firm’s Central Market gourmet and organic line increasingly competes with Whole Foods. H-E-B donates 5% of pretax profits to charity. The HEB brand has expanded into several different varieties over the years, including the Central Market brand, a Whole Foods inspired supermarket chain featuring a wide variety of gourmet options, cooking classes.