Trygve Stangeland

Trygve Stangeland (13 November 1934 – 18 June 2011) was a Norwegian businessperson.

He was born in Sola, and founded the construction company Stangeland Gruppen in 1959.[1][2] The company had a turnover of NOK 1.5 billion in 2008,[3] and Stangeland himself has a fortune of NOK 402 million, about US$70 million.[4]

He resided in Tjelta.[1] His son Olav Stangeland is the director of Stangeland Gruppen's daughter company, T. Stangeland Maskin.[5]

On 17 June 2011 he was involved in a bicycle accident near the airport hotel at Stavanger Airport, Sola, and sustained a severe head trauma. The injury claimed his life; he died on Stavanger University Hospital in the afternoon the next day.[6][7]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Trygve Stangeland 70 år 13. november" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 22 October 2004.
  2. "Stangeland Gruppen" (in Norwegian). Stangeland Gruppen. Retrieved 29 November 2009.
  3. Gregersen, Ann-Mari (29 April 2009). "Satser hardt på HMS". Stavanger Aftenblad (in Norwegian).
  4. "Trygve Stangeland (1934) - Skattelister 2008" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 29 November 2009.
  5. Andersen, Anders (18 November 2005). "Olav Stangeland 50 år". Stavanger Aftenblad (in Norwegian).
  6. "Trygve Stangeland alvorlig skadd i sykkelulykke" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 17 June 2011.
  7. "Entreprenøren Trygve Stangeland er død" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 19 June 2011.