Stein Erik Hagen (born 22 July 1956) is a Norwegian businessman. He is chairman of

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, 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

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24 billion, making him the second richest person in Norway.

Biography

Hagen is educated at ''Kjøpmannsinsituttet'' (now part of the

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). He founded the

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discount store chain along with his father in the 1970s, and retained ownership until the 2000s, when he sold to Swedish ICA and

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. 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

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in the 2005 Norwegian election and to the

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and Progress Party in 2006.

Private life

Stein Erik Hagen has three children from his first marriage, and a son from a later relationship. In 2004 he married

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, the couple announced in 2012 that they were separating. In October 2015, Hagen

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on the Norwegian-Swedish

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''. Later the same day he added that he was bisexual, and that his ex-wives and family have known about his sexuality for many years.

References

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