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| Born | 11 September 1951 Trondheim, Norway |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Known for | Founder, CEO and co-owner of Reitan AS |
| Spouses | Marit Arntsen (m. 1972)Hilde Undlien (m. 2018) |
| Children | 2 sons: Ole Robert Reitan Magnus Reitan |
| Website | www |
Odd Reitan (born 11 September 1951) is a Norwegian billionaire businessman. He was born in Trondheim. He is co-owner and CEO of the Reitan AS. [1]
Reitan is the son of "single-store grocers", [2] Ole Reitan and Margit Aarhaug. [1]
Reitan established his first shop in Trondheim in 1972, in cooperation with his father. In 1979 he established the grocery chain store REMA 1000, which came to be a great success. By 1990 every village in Norway with more than 10,000 inhabitants had a Rema 1000 shop. During the 1990s the chain expanded in Denmark, Sweden, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia. [3]
Reitan played keyboard in the music group Four Jets in the 1960s. [3]
He and his 2012 book, Hvis jeg var president ("If I was president"), was the subject of an editorial in Klassekampen . [4] The editorial highlighted his idea of him governing Norway without being elected by popular vote. [4] His idea is that he could be appointed by Norway's king. The editorial described these ideas as "undemocratic dirt". [4]
In 2013 he awarded Norwegian kroner 2 million to Anlov Mathiesen (chief editor of =Oslo), saying that Mathiesen's work contributes to "increased self-respect for the vendors of the street magazines." [5]
In 1972, he married Marit Arntsen (born 1952). [3] They have the two sons, Ole Robert Reitan (born 1971), [6] and Magnus Reitan . [1]
In June 2018, he married Hilde Undlien in Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim. [7] They had been in a relationship since 2012. [7] He resides in Trondheim. [2]
REITAN AS, formerly known as Reitangruppen, is a Norwegian conglomerate comprising three business areas: Reitan Retail, Reitan Eiendom and Reitan Kapital.
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