Stein Erik Hagen
Stein Erik Hagen (born July 22, 1956 in Oslo ) is a Norwegian entrepreneur. He is the CEO and major shareholder of the Norwegian conglomerate Orkla . He also holds large shares in Steen & Strøm , Jernia and Complete through his Canica family office . Hagen is one of the richest Norwegians. According to the Norwegian news magazine Kapital , his family's fortune is worth 24 billion Norwegian kroner . According to Forbes Magazine , the Hagen family owned the equivalent of $ 3.1 billion in 2009.
Life
Hagen studied at Kjøpmannsinsituttet (now part of the Norwegian School of Management BI ). In the 1970s, Hagen and his father founded the discount retail chain RIMI . In the 2000s he sold RIMI to the Swedish chain ICA and the Dutch chain Ahold . He invested most of the proceeds in Orkla. Hagen is said to have one of the largest sailing yachts in Europe; he used to own an island in the Caribbean. In the 2005 parliamentary elections he sponsored the Liberal Party of Norway (Venstre), and in 2006 right-wing parties as well. Hagen has lived in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland since 2009 . In early 2012, he announced that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. On October 2, 2015, he came out as bisexual.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stein Erik Hagen on forbes.com
- ↑ http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/zuerich/region/Zwei-Milliardaere-sind-nach-Zuerich-züge/story/28963113
- ^ Investor goes public with cancer diagnosis , Views and News from Norway, January 4, 2012
- ↑ http://www.nrk.no/kultur/stein-erik-hagen-star-frem-som-homofil-1.12582059
- ↑ http://instinctmagazine.com/post/norwegian-billionaire-comes-out-gay
- ↑ Bjørn Haugan: Hagen sier ekskonene visste at han var bifil. In: vg.no on October 2, 2015. Accessed on November 23, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hagen, Stein Erik |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 22, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oslo |