Peter Arne Ruzicka (born 16 April 1964) is a Norwegian businessman.
Ruzicka's father was Czech, migrated to Norway in 1951 and ultimately became professor of chemistry. Ruzicka earned
siv.øk. and
MBA
A Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a professional degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration; elective courses may allow further study in a particular a ...
degrees at
Oslo Business School. In 1990 he was hired in
Hakon Gruppen by
Stein Erik Hagen
Stein Erik Hagen (born 22 July 1956) is a Norwegian businessman. He is chairman of Orkla, where he is a major shareholder, and holds large stakes in Steen & Strøm, Jernia and Komplett through his family company Canica. According to ''Forbe ...
. He became director of markets in
RIMI
RIMI was a grocery store chain in Norway.
The discount supermarket is best known for its slogan, "Consistently low prices" (''Faste lave priser''). The supermarket business can trace itself back to 1977. It was founded as the discount grocery st ...
after nine months, and successively became CEO of RIMI and Hakon Gruppen. From 2000 to 2003 Ruzicka was the CEO of
Ahold in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. He then left the conglomerate together with Stein Erik Hagen. Instead, Ruzicka became CEO of
Jernia in 2003 and
Canica
{{Infobox company
, name = Canica AS
, logo = Canica logo.png
, type = Private
, foundation = 1985
, founder =
, location = Oslo, Norway
, key_people = Peter Arne Ruzicka (CEO)Stein Erik Hagen (Chairman)
, area_served = Norway
, indu ...
in 2006.
Since February 2014, Mr. Ruzicka has been president and CEO of Orkla.
References
1964 births
Living people
Norwegian businesspeople in retailing
BI Norwegian Business School alumni
Norwegian people of Czech descent
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