Trond Lykke (3 February 1946 – 17 November 2020) was a Norwegian merchant.

Career

Lykke was born in

Trondheim Trondheim ( , , ; sma, Tråante), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2020, it had a population of 205,332, was the third most populous municipality in Norway, and ...

, a grandson of merchant and prime minister Ivar Lykke. He was manager of the family merchandise I. K. Lykke from 1978 to 2005 (when his son took over), and chairman of the board from 1985. In 1981 he established the

retail chain A chain store or retail chain is a retail outlet in which several locations share a brand, central management and standardized business practices. They have come to dominate the retail and dining markets and many service categories, in many pa ...

Bunnpris Bunnpris is a Norway, Norwegian retail chain with 216 grocery stores in 2011 in Norway, primarily in Sør-Trøndelag, Møre og Romsdal and Oslo, but also many in Northern Norway. The stores are managed by I. K. Lykke run by the fifth generation L ...

. Lykke was adopted into the

Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters ( da, Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab, DKNVS) is a Norwegian learned society based in Trondheim. It was founded in 1760 and is Norway's oldest scientific and scholarly institution. The s ...

in 1998. From 2005 he was Danish

consul Consul (abbrev. ''cos.''; Latin plural ''consules'') was the title of one of the two chief magistrates of the Roman Republic, and subsequently also an important title under the Roman Empire. The title was used in other European city-states throug ...

in Trondheim. He died on 17 November 2020.

References

1946 births 2020 deaths People from Trondheim Norwegian merchants Norwegian businesspeople in retailing {{Norway-business-bio-stub