Rabbe Grönblom

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Rabbe Grönblom (born 1950) is a well known businessman from Vaasa, Finland. His first company—a pizzeria—was called Pizzeria No 1 and it was founded in 1976 in the center of Vaasa. Nowadays he is known as the "Pizza-emperor" (Pizzakeisari in Finnish), because he is the founder of a well known pizza franchise chain called Kotipizza. The chain is said to be the biggest one in the Nordic countries. He is also the founder of a shipping company called RG Line, a hotel chain called Omenahotelli and another pizza chain called Golden Rax Pizzabuffet. Most of his companies are subsidiaries of Grönblom International LTD, where Rabbe Grönblom acts as director. Golden Rax Pizzabuffet however is nowadays a part of Finland's largest hotel & restaurant company Restel Oy Ltd, where Rabbe Grönblom sits on the board. He is also on the board of the Finnish tyre company Nokian Renkaat (since 2003).