Jacques D'Amours Net Worth

Jacques D'Amours has an estimated net worth of $3.7 billion, according to Forbes Real-Time Billionaires, Jacques D'Amours profile (figures as of October 20, 2026). That is up from $1.8 billion in 2019.

Jacques D'Amours is a Canadian businessman and one of the cofounders of Alimentation Couche-Tard, the convenience store giant. He helped start the company in 1980 and was the youngest of its four cofounders. Forbes counts him as self-made. He is married with two children and lives in Montreal, Quebec, where Couche-Tard grew from a local chain into a global business. He has also served as a director of the company, helping guide it through decades of growth from a small group of stores into a worldwide chain.

During 34 years with the company, D'Amours held a long list of jobs. He worked as manager of technical services, vice president of sales and vice president of administration and operations. He retired from his executive role in 2014 but stayed on the board for years, before retiring from the board in 2023. He remains one of the company's biggest shareholders.

How Jacques D'Amours made his money

His fortune comes from his stake in Couche-Tard. As of 2024 he was the company's second largest shareholder, with 6.3% of its shares. That stake grew in value as the company expanded through a long series of acquisitions, buying up rival chains across North America and beyond.

One of those deals was the purchase of Minnesota based Holiday Stationstores for $1.6 billion in 2017. Forbes says Couche-Tard now has annual sales of $73 billion and more than 17,000 owned or franchised stores worldwide. Each new deal made the business bigger and helped push up the value of the shares D'Amours has held since the early days.

How Forbes has valued Jacques D'Amours

D'Amours has been a billionaire since 2005. Forbes put him at $1.8 billion in 2019 and $1.5 billion in 2020. Then his fortune began a long climb. He reached $2.1 billion in 2021, $2.5 billion in 2022 and $2.9 billion in 2023, as Couche-Tard's stock rose. Each step up tracked the company's growing profits and its steady stream of store purchases.

His estimate peaked at $3.9 billion in 2024, then slipped to $3.2 billion in 2025. On the 2026 World's Billionaires List, Forbes valued him at $3.7 billion, and its real-time tracker showed the same $3.7 billion as of October 20, 2026. Maclean's has ranked him the 33rd richest Canadian.