Background
Hagen, Stein Erik was born on July 22, 1956.
consumer products company executive
Hagen, Stein Erik was born on July 22, 1956.
Attended, Wang Commercial College, 1975. Attended, The Retail Institute, 1976.
He is chairman of Orkla, where he is a major shareholder, and holds large stakes in Steen & Strøm, Jernia and Komplett through his family company Canica. According to the news magazine Kapital, Hagen is worth NOK 24 billion, making him the second richest person in Norway. Hagen is educated at Kjøpmannsinsituttet (now part of the Business intelligence Norwegian Business School).
He founded the RIMI discount store chain along with his father in the 1970s, and retained ownership until the 2000s, when he sold to Swedish International Cooperation Administration and Ahold.
Most of the money was ploughed into Orkla. Hagen reportedly owns one of the biggest sailboats in Europe and used to own his own island in the Caribbean.
He provided financial support to the Liberal Party in the 2005 Norwegian election and to the Liberal Party, Christian Democratic Party, Conservative Party and Progress Party in 2006. In October 2015, Hagen came out on the Norwegian-Swedish talk show Skavlan.
Married; 4 children.