Ole Andreas Stang (30 May 1923 – 10 November 1998) was a Norwegian businessperson, who owned and led the company

Maarud Maarud AS is a Norway, Norwegian manufacturer of snack foods. Structure Their most well known product are various potato chips, branded as "Maarud Potetgull" (lit. 'potato gold'), but the company also produces other foods such as tortilla chips ...

from 1960 to 1983.

Personal life

He was a son of landowner and industrialist

Thomas Stang Thomas Stang (27 November 1897 – 5 January 1982) was a Norwegian forester and businessperson. He is known as founder of the company Maarud, and also as husband of actress Wenche Foss. Personal life He was born in Kristiania as a son of landow ...

. He was a paternal grandson of landowner Ole A. Stang and Emma Heiberg, grandnephew of ship-owner Jørgen Breder Stang, great-grandson of landowner Mads Wiel Stang and politician Axel Heiberg and nephew of Axel Heiberg Stang. His father married actress

Wenche Foss Eva Wenche Steenfeldt Stang (5 December 1917 – 28 March 2011), better known as Wenche Foss (), was a leading Norwegian actress of stage, screen and television. Personal life Wenche Foss was born to engineer Christian August Steenfeldt-Foss ( ...

in 1953. Stang was thus a half-brother of politician

Fabian Stang Richard Fabian Stang (born 19 August 1955) is a Norwegian lawyer and a politician for the Conservative Party.Sør-Odal Sør-Odal is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Odalen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Skarn ...

in 1960, which had been bought by his grandfather in 1911. He has been credited with saving the family business from economic failure, and refined it into the modern snack company

. Production facilities for

potato chips Potato chips (North American English and Australian English; often just chip) or crisp (British English and Hiberno-English) are thin slices of potato (or a thin deposit of potato paste) that has been deep frying, deep fried, baking, baked, ...

and dessert cheese were erected at the family farm. He sold the industrial part of the family business to Freia Marabou in 1983, and passed on the farm itself to his son Thomas Stang in 1985. He was decorated with the

King's Medal of Merit The King's Medal of Merit (Norwegian: ''Kongens fortjenstmedalje'') is a Norwegian award. It was instituted in 1908 to reward meritorious achievements in the fields of art, science, business, and public service. It is divided in two classes: gold ...

in 1997. He died of cancer in November 1998 and was buried at Ullern in Sør-Odal.

References

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