Lars B. Andersen (born 1970), is a British of Norwegian descent businessman who founded
My Nametags, a school uniform name label manufacturing company. He served also as the master of
Company of Entrepreneurs from 2020 to 2021.
Career
He worked in finance and insurance in London.
Andersen set up
My Nametags in 2004, a company that makes iron-on and sticker name labels. The company received a
Queen's Award for International Trade in 2018.
He is currently the
chief executive of the company.
City of London
Andersen was the Master of the
Company of Entrepreneurs for the year 2020/21. He is Senior Warden of the
Worshipful Company of World Traders and organised a
Guinness World Record
''Guinness World Records'', known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as ''The Guinness Book of Records'' and in previous United States editions as ''The Guinness Book of World Records'', is a reference book published annually, listing world ...
for the company in 2018 - 'most nationalities in a simultaneous popular music sing-along'. Andersen is on the committee of the
Broad Street Ward Club.
He has been the City of London shrieval election agent for Alderman
Nicholas Lyons
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Biography
The younger son of Dr Leland Lyons, FBA, FRSL, Provost of Trinity College, ...
, Andrew Marsden, Alderwoman Dame
Susan Langley
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DBE and David Chalk.
Family
Andersen is a descendant of one of the signatories to the Norwegian Constitution in 1814,
Peder Jørgen Cloumann
Peder Jørgen Cloumann (14 April 1747 – 22 December 1817) was a Norwegian bailiff and politician.
Peder Jørgen Cloumann was born at Strandebarm in Hordaland, Norway where his father was the parish priest. He studied in the University of Cope ...
.
Civic appointments
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Liveryman of the
Worshipful Company of World Traders
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Freeman of the
Company of Entrepreneurs
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Freeman of the
Guild of Freemen of the City of London The Guild of Freemen of the City of London is an association of those who hold the Freedom of the City of London.
Membership of the Guild is open to all freemen, regardless of whether they are also members of a City livery company.
*
Freeman of the City of London
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.
References
External links
Company website
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1970 births
Living people
Businesspeople from Oslo
English manufacturing businesspeople
English businesspeople
British people of Norwegian descent