Rudie Sypkes

Rudie Sypkes (22 May 1950 – 8 February 2008) was an Australian businessman from Tasmania. Sypkes was the co-founder of the Chickenfeed retail chain.

Biography Sypkes was born in Tasmania to immigrant parents from the Netherlands.

Sypkes revealed in July 2007 that he had been diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and donated towards research into respiratory disease. Sypkes died suddenly and unexpectedly at a hospital in Tasmania on 8 February 2008. He had been on a waiting list for a lung transplant for nine months. He was survived by his wife and three children.