Stein Erik Hagen

Stein Erik Hagen ( born July 22, 1956) is a Norwegian businessman. He is the CEO and major shareholder of the Norwegian conglomerate Orkla. In addition, he holds over his family office Canica large shares in the company Steen & Strøm, Jernia and complete. Hagen is one of the most Norwegians. According to the Norwegian news magazine capital the property of his family is worth 24 billion Norwegian kroner. According to Forbes Magazine, the Hagen family had in 2009 converted 3.1 billion U.S. dollars.

Life

Hagen studied at Kjøpmannsinsituttet ( now part of the Norwegian School of Management BI). In the 1970s, Hagen founded along with his father, the discount retail chain RIMI. In 2000 he years he sold RIMI to the Swedish chain ICA and the Dutch chain Ahold. The largest portion of the proceeds he invested in Orkla. Hagen should have one of the largest sailing yachts in Europe; formerly belonged to him also an island in the Caribbean. In the parliamentary elections in 2005, he sponsored the Liberal Party of Norway ( Venstre ). In 2006, in addition to this also right-wing parties. Hagen lives since 2009 in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland. In early 2012 he announced that in his prostate cancer was diagnosed.