Odd Reitan
Norwegian businessman
Odd Reitan (born 11 September 1951) is a Norwegian billionaire businessman. He was born in Trondheim.2
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Born Sep 11, 1951.1
About
He is co-owner and CEO of the Reitan AS.
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Companies
Early life and education
Reitan is the son of "single-store grocers", Ole Reitan and Margit Aarhaug.
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Career
Occupation: entrepreneur, chief executive officer, director.7
- Date not recordedFounded REMA 10003
- Date not recordedChief executive, Reitan AS4
- Date not recordedChairperson, Reitan AS5
- Date not recordedChair, Reitan Convenience6
Reitan established his first shop in Trondheim in 1972, in cooperation with his father. In 1979 he established the grocery chain store REMA 1000, which came to be a great success. By 1990 every village in Norway with more than 10,000 inhabitants had a Rema 1000 shop. During the 1990s the chain expanded in Denmark, Sweden, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia.
Reitan played keyboard in the music group Four Jets in the 1960s.
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Personal life
In 1972, he married Marit Arntsen (born 1952). They have the two sons, Ole Robert Reitan (born 1971), and Magnus Reitan. Reitan is the grandfather of golfer Kristoffer Reitan.
In June 2018, he married Hilde Undlien in Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim. They had been in a relationship since 2012. He resides in Trondheim.
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Philanthropy
In 2013 he awarded Norwegian kroner 2 million to Anlov Mathiesen (chief editor of =Oslo), saying that Mathiesen's work contributes to "increased self-respect for the vendors of the street magazines."
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Sources
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- 1WikidataOdd Reitan on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaOdd Reitan on Wikipedia
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- 11WikidataOdd Reitan: IMDb, on Wikidata
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- 13WikidataReitan Convenience, Chair
- 14WikidataREMA 1000, Founder
- 15Wikimedia CommonsOdd Reitan photo by Reitangruppen AS, CC BY-SA 3.0