Hans Rausing, is a Swedish businessman based in the United Kingdom. He made his fortune from his co-inheritance of Tetra Pak, a company founded by his father Ruben Rausing and currently the largest food packaging company in the world. In the Forbes world fortune ranking, Rausing was placed at number 83 with an estimated fortune of $US10 billion in 2011.According to Forbes, Hans Rausing was the second richest Swedish billionaire in 2013
Background
Rausing, Hans Anders was born March 25, 1926 in Goteborg, Sweden. Son of Ruben Anders and Elisabeth (Varenius) Rausing. He made his fortune from his co-inheritance of Tetra Pak, a company founded by his father Ruben Rausing and currently the largest food packaging company in the world. In the Forbes world fortune ranking, Rausing was placed at number 83 with an estimated fortune of $US10 billion in 2011. As of March 2013, Forbes reported his net worth as $11B. As of 17 May 2013, Bloomberg Billionaires Index estimated Rausing's net worth to be $13.3 billion.
Education
Bachelor, University Lund, 1948; Doctor in Economic (honorary), University Lund, 1987; Doctor in Tech. (honorary), Royal Institute, Stockholm, 1985.
Career
In 1954, at the age of 28, Rausing was appointed Managing Director of Tetra Pak, while his brother Gad became Deputy Managing Director. Rausing retained this post until 1985, when he took over as Chairman of the Board. Rausing left Tetra Pak in 1993 and sold his 50% share of the company to Gad in 1995 in what was at the time called the largest private buyout ever in Europe.
Much of the enormous success of Tetra Pak in the 1970s and 1980s has been credited to the leadership of Hans and Gad Rausing, who literally took the company from a six-person family business to a global multi-national corporation. Over the course of his business career, Rausing became a specialist in Russian affairs and has made many private investments in both Russia and Ukraine. He was responsible for the Russian market within Tetra Pak, and negotiated the first Tetra Pak machine export to the then Soviet Union in 1959, eventually making Tetra Pak the largest foreign employer in Russia.
Achievements
Religion
Church Sweden
Politics
Hans Anders Rausing - Workaholic number one in Sweden.
He was able to turn the family business into a global corporation.
He earns a lot of money! He forgot what politics means
Membership
Royal Academy Sci.
Sweden (honorary)
Personality
Hans Rausing and his wife Märit Rausing have two daughters, Lisbet and Sigrid, and one son, Hans Kristian Rausing.
Rausing has been a resident of the UK since 1982. He currently when? lives in Wadhurst, East Sussex