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Björgólfur Thor
Björgólfur Thor Björgólfsson (born 19 March 1967), known as Björgólfur Thor, also known internationally as Thor Bjorgolfsson, and colloquially in Iceland as Bjöggi, is an Icelandic businessman and entrepreneur. He is also chairman and founder of Novator Partners. Björgólfur Thor has built and invested in a number of larger companies and smaller startups, including Actavis, a pharmaceutical company; WOM Play - mobile telecoms challenger brands in Chile, Colombia and Poland; and Zwift - an online platform for indoor cycling. Other companies invested in by Björgólfur Thor and Novator include Deliveroo, Monzo, Stripe, Cazoo, Xantis Pharma, Klang, and Lockwood Publishing. Björgólfur Thor was the first Icelander to join ''Forbes'' magazine's list of the world's richest people in 2005. He has been declared as "Iceland's first billionaire"; and was ranked as the 249th-richest person in the world by Forbes magazine in 2007 - up from 350th the previous year - with a net wort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reykjavík
Reykjavík is the Capital city, capital and largest city in Iceland. It is located in southwestern Iceland on the southern shore of Faxaflói, the Faxaflói Bay. With a latitude of 64°08′ N, the city is List of northernmost items, the world's northernmost capital of a sovereign state. Reykjavík has a population of around 139,000 as of 2025. The surrounding Capital Region (Iceland), Capital Region has a population of around 249,000, constituting around 64% of the country's population. Reykjavík is believed to be the location of the first permanent settlement in Iceland, which, according to , was established by Ingólfr Arnarson, Ingólfur Arnarson in 874 Anno Domini, AD. Until the 18th century, there was no urban development in the city location. The city was officially founded in 1786 as a trading town and grew steadily over the following decades, as it transformed into a regional and later Country, national centre of commerce, population, and governmental activities. Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnús Þorsteinsson
Magnús Þorsteinsson is a businessman and was chairman of now defunct Avion Group. He was a high-profile investor and entrepreneur with interests in aviation and financial services. Beverage businessman in Saint Petersburg Magnús began his investments in St. Petersburg together with Björgólfur Guðmundsson and Björgólfur Thor Björgólfsson. The Icelandic businessmen, together with Russian partners, founded a bottling company ''Baltic Bottling Plant'' in Saint Petersburg in June 1993 which was sold to Pepsi for 4 billion Danish krone, DKK in 1997. The three businessmen were among the first clients of the attorney Jeffrey Galmond in Saint Petersburg. They moved to brewing and founded a brewing company ''Bravo International'' OOO in August 1996 which became ''Bravo International'' JSC in December 1997.. Another copy: . An automatic translation: :ru:Нерсесов, Юрий Аркадьевич, Нерсесов, Юрий (23 January 2003)Жертвы иудейской во ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inception
''Inception'' is a 2010 science fiction action heist film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, who also produced it with Emma Thomas, his wife. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a professional thief who steals information by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets. He is offered a chance to have his criminal history erased as payment for the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious. The ensemble cast includes Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Elliot Page, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, Dileep Rao, and Michael Caine. After the 2002 completion of ''Insomnia'', Nolan presented to Warner Bros. a written 80-page treatment for a horror film envisioning "dream stealers," based on lucid dreaming. Deciding he needed more experience before tackling a production of this magnitude and complexity, Nolan shelved the project and instead worked on 2005's ''Batman Begins'', 2006's '' The Prestige'', and 2008's ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DNEG
The DNEG Group, or DNEG (formerly known as Double Negative and stylized as D N E G), is a British-Indian visual effects, computer animation and stereo conversion studio that was founded in 1998 in London, and rebranded as DNEG in 2014 after a merger with Indian visual effects company Prime Focus. The company has won eight Academy Awards for its work on the films ''Inception'', '' Interstellar'', '' Ex Machina'', ''Blade Runner 2049'', '' First Man'', '' Tenet'' and ''Dune''. In addition, DNEG has also won BAFTA awards for ''Inception'', ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2'', ''Interstellar'', ''Blade Runner 2049'', ''Tenet'', ''Dune'' and ''Black Mirror''s " Metalhead", and Visual Effects Society awards for its work on films such as ''The Dark Knight Rises'', ''Sherlock Holmes'', ''Inception'', ''Interstellar'', ''Dunkirk'', ''Blade Runner 2049'', '' Altered Carbon'', ''First Man'', ''Chernobyl'', '' Last Night In Soho'', '' Foundation'' and ''Dune''. It has als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fréttablaðið
''Fréttablaðið'' () was a free Icelandic newspaper. It was distributed five days per week. At its peak, it was the most read newspaper in Iceland. History and profile ''Fréttablaðið'' was established in 2001. It was originally owned primarily by the media group '' 365''. The paper was published six days per week, Monday — Saturday until September 2003, when its frequency was switched to daily. As of 2019, it was published six days per week again, and as of 2020, it was published five days per week. It is entirely funded by advertising. ''Fréttablaðið'' has been described as siding politically with the Social Democratic Alliance (Samfylkingin) and for favouring Icelandic membership of the European Union. However, some of its editors have sided with the conservative Independence Party (Sjálfstæðisflokkurinn), and its former editor-in-chief and regular columnist is Independence Party's former leader and Prime Minister Þorsteinn Pálsson. In the period of 2001–20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank AG (, ) is a Germany, German multinational Investment banking, investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, and dual-listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange. Deutsche Bank was founded in 1870 in Berlin. From 1929 to 1937, following its merger with Disconto-Gesellschaft, it was known as ''Deutsche Bank und Disconto-Gesellschaft'' or DeDi-Bank. Other transformative acquisitions have included those of Mendelssohn & Co. in 1938, Morgan, Grenfell & Company, Morgan Grenfell in 1990, Bankers Trust in 1998, and Deutsche Postbank in 2010. As of 2018, the bank's network spanned 58 countries with a large presence in Europe, the Americas, and Asia. It is a component of the DAX stock market index and is often referred to as the List of banks in Germany, largest German banking institution, with Deutsche Bank holding the majority stake in DWS Group for combined assets of 2.2 trillion euros, rivaling even Spa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008–2011 Icelandic Financial Crisis
The Icelandic financial crisis was a major financial crisis, economic and political event in Iceland between 2008 and 2010. It involved the default (finance), default of all three of the country's major privately owned commercial banks in late 2008, following problems in refinancing their current liability, short-term debt and a bank run, run on deposits in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Relative to the size of its economy, Iceland's systemic banking collapse was the largest of any country in economic history. The crisis led to a severe recession and the 2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests. In the years preceding the crisis, three Icelandic banks, Kaupthing Bank, Kaupthing, Landsbanki and Glitnir (bank), Glitnir, multiplied in size. This expansion was driven by ready access to credit in international financial markets, in particular money markets. As the 2008 financial crisis unfolded, investors perceived the Icelandic banks to be increasingly risky. Trust in the ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Straumur
ALMC hf., formerly Straumur Investment Bank hf. (), is a regional investment bank headquartered in Reykjavík, Iceland. Founded in 1986 as ''Hlutabréfasjóðurinn'' and rebranded as Straumur in 2004, the bank initially survived the financial turmoil in late 2008 but was nationalised by The Financial Supervisory Authority of Iceland (FME) on 9 March 2009. Straumur was the last of Iceland's four biggest banks to remain independent during the 2008–2011 Icelandic financial crisis. In the summer of 2010, the bank had been rebranded as ALMC and owned by its creditors. The majority of ALMC's owners are international investors and financial institutions and independent from any state involvement. Before the collapse of the Icelandic banking system in late 2008 the company was mainly owned by Björgólfur Guðmundsson and his son Björgólfur Thor Björgólfsson. The latter was also the chairman of the board until the bank was temporarily closed by regulators in March 2009. At one poi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landsbanki
Landsbanki (, ), also commonly known as Landsbankinn (, ) was one of the largest Icelandic commercial banks; it failed as part of the 2008–2011 Icelandic financial crisis when its subsidiary sparked the Icesave dispute. On October 7, 2008, the Icelandic Financial Supervisory Authority took control of Landsbanki and created a new bank for all the domestic operations called Nýi Landsbanki (New Landsbanki) and the bank continued to operate under the same name.The Financial Supervisory Authority - Iceland, ''News: Based on New Legislation, the Icelandic Financial Supervisory Authority (IFSA) Proceeds to take Control of L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Consul (representative)
A consul is an official representative of a government who resides in a foreign country to assist and protect citizens of the consul's country, and to promote and facilitate commercial and diplomatic relations between the two countries. A consul is generally part of a government's diplomatic corps or Diplomatic service, foreign service, and thus enjoys certain privileges and protections in the host state, albeit without full diplomatic immunity. Unlike an ambassador, who serves as the single representative of one government to another, a state may appoint several consuls in a foreign nation, typically in major cities; consuls are usually tasked with providing assistance in bureaucratic issues to both citizens of their own country traveling or living abroad and to the citizens of the country in which the consul resides who wish to travel to or trade with the consul's country. Origin and history Antecedent: the classical Greek ''proxenos'' In classical Greece, some of the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heineken
Heineken Lager Beer (), or simply Heineken (), is a Dutch pale lager beer with 5% alcohol by volume produced by the Dutch brewing company Heineken N.V. Heineken beer is sold in a green bottle with a red star. History On 15 February 1864, Gerard Adriaan Heineken (1841–1893) bought De Hooiberg (The Haystack) brewery on the Nieuwezijds Achterburgwal canal in Amsterdam, a popular working class brand founded in 1592. In 1873 after hiring a Dr. Elion (student of French chemist Louis Pasteur) to develop Heineken a yeast for Bavarian bottom fermentation, the HBM (Heineken's Bierbrouwerij Maatschappij) was established, and the first Heineken brand beer was brewed. In 1875 Heineken won the Medaille D'Or at the International Maritime Exposition in Paris and it began to be shipped there regularly, after which Heineken sales topped 64,000 hectolitres (1.7 million U.S. gallons), making them the biggest beer exporter to France. In Heineken's early years, the beer won four awards: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
