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Bjarne Lerum
Bjarne Magnar Lerum (1941 – 12 October 2010) was a Norwegian businessperson and politician for the Progress Party. He was a son of Karl Lerum, and brother of Kåre Lerum and Gerd Kjellaug Berge. Together with Kåre Lerum he was the owner of the family company Lerum in Sogndal. After the brothers passed the company on to their children in 2005, he was a board member and technical director of the company. He is credited with improving the technical production and packaging of the company's products. He was also a member of Sogndal municipal council A municipal council is the legislative body of a municipality or local government area. Depending on the location and classification of the municipality it may be known as a city council, town council, town board, community council, rural coun ... for the Progress Party. He was married and had three children. He died in October 2010. He was one of the wealthiest people in Sogndal before he died. References 1941 births 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerd Kjellaug Berge
Gerd Kjellaug Berge, née Lerum (born 20 March 1943) is a Norwegian hotelier and national business council leader. She was born in Sogndal, as a sister of Kåre Lerum and Bjarne Lerum. She became director of a hotel in Selje in 1976, and co-owner with her husband Harald in 1983. She was president of the employers' association ''Norsk Hotell- og Restaurantforbund'' (a forerunner of the Norwegian Hospitality Association) from 1988 to 1990 and vice president of the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise from 2000 to 2004. Berge was chosen ''Årets nynorskbrukar'' (Nynorsk User of the Year) in 2001,Aina Rødal"Maria Parr er «Årets nynorskbrukar»" NRK 8 April 2010. and holds 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 silver. References 1943 bir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of Norway. Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is a dependency of Norway; it also lays claims to the Antarctic territories of Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land. The capital and largest city in Norway is Oslo. Norway has a total area of and had a population of 5,425,270 in January 2022. The country shares a long eastern border with Sweden at a length of . It is bordered by Finland and Russia to the northeast and the Skagerrak strait to the south, on the other side of which are Denmark and the United Kingdom. Norway has an extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea. The maritime influence dominates Norway's climate, with mild lowland temperatures on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Progress Party (Norway)
The Progress Party ( nb, Fremskrittspartiet; nn, Framstegspartiet; se, Ovddádusbellodat), commonly abbreviated as FrP, is a right-wing political party in Norway. The FrP has traditionally self-identified as classical-liberal and as a libertarian party but is generally positioned to the right of the Conservative Party, and is considered the most right-wing party to be represented in parliament. It is often described as moderately right-wing populist; this characterization has also been disputed in both academic and public discourse. By 2020, the party attained a growing national conservative faction. After the 2017 parliamentary election, it was Norway's third largest political party, with 26 representatives in the Storting. It was a partner in the government coalition led by the Conservative Party from 2013 to 2020. The Progress Party focuses on law and order, downsizing the bureaucracy and the public sector; the FrP self-identifies as an economic liberal party whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kåre Lerum
Kåre Norvald Lerum (born 4 December 1939) is a Norwegian businessperson and politician. He was born in Vik and took an education in Stavanger. He was hired as manager in 1976, and was later the chief executive officer, in Lerum in Sogndal, a family company he owned together with his brother Bjarne Lerum. He is also a brother of Gerd Kjellaug Berge. Lerum was succeeded as chief executive officer by Jan Petter Vadheim in 2004. The brothers passed the ownership of the company down to their children in 2005. , Lerum remained a member of the board of directors of Lerum. Lerum is still one of the wealthiest people in Sogndal. Lerum chaired the employers' organisation ''Konservesfabrikkenes Landsforening''. He was a member of Sogndal municipal council for six years and served as mayor from 1978 to 1982. He initially represented the Conservative Party but later joined the Progress Party in 2002. Lerum was decorated as a Knight, First Class, of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation
NRK, an abbreviation of the Norwegian ''Norsk Rikskringkasting AS'', generally expressed in English as the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, is the Norwegian government-owned radio and television public broadcasting company, and the largest media organisation in Norway. All other TV channels, broadcast from Norway, were banned between 1960 and 1981. NRK broadcasts three national TV channels and thirteen national radio channels on digital terrestrial television, digital terrestrial radio and subscription television. All NRK radio stations are streamed online at NRK.no, which also offers an extensive TV service. NRK is a founding member of the European Broadcasting Union. Financing Until the start of 2020, about 94% of NRK's funding came from a mandatory annual licence fee payable by anyone who owns or uses a TV or device capable of receiving TV broadcasts. The remainder came from commercial activities such as programme and DVD sales, spin-off products, and certain types o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lerum (company)
Lerum is a Norwegian company, which produces food and drinks. , the company was considered to be Norway's top manufacturer of fruit drinks, and manufactured many supermarket store brands. History It was founded in 1907 by Nils Hansson Lerum and his wife Kari Hansdotter Ørbech as a small store in Sørheim, Luster. Since many in the rural community paid with raspberries, they started production of juice in a small factory in 1909. By 1918, the factory was producing tens of thousands of liters of juice and kilograms of jam. In 1919, production was moved to Sogndal. Coincident with this move, a company was formed as A/S NH Lerums Saftfabrikk. Lerum, which still is family-owned, now consists of two subdivisions, Lerum Konserves and Lerum Fabrikker. Lerum had an arrangement which ended in 1998 to produce Pepsi products, thereafter opting to produce their own products. In 2006, Lerum joined other drink manufacturers who were adding sugar-free alternatives, in their case opting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sogndal
Sogndal is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located on the northern shore of the Sognefjorden in the traditional district of Sogn. The village of Hermansverk is the administrative center of Sogndal municipality. Other villages include Kaupanger, Kjørnes, Fimreite, Nornes, and Fjærland. Sogndal Airport, Haukåsen is located southwest of Kaupanger. The Norwegian dialect spoken in Sogndal is called '' sognamål''. In 1917, a farmer in Sogndal (Kato Linde) plowed up the Eggja stone, a gravestone with runic inscriptions important for the history of the Old Norse language. The municipality is the 84th largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Sogndal is the 96th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 12,097. The municipality's population density is and its population has increased by 10.8% over the previous 10-year period. General information Sogndal was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskaps ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sogn Avis
''Sogn Avis'' is a Norwegian newspaper, published in Leikanger in Sogndal Municipality in Vestland county. It was named ''Sogns Avis'' from 1926 to 1972 and ''Sogningen/Sogns Avis'' from 1972 to 1993. It started on 21 August 1926 in Vikøyri, a small settlement that had lost the newspaper ''Sogningen'' in 1925. Its first editor was Thormod Liljedahl. After less than a year it was bought by bookprinter Ingvald Husabø, who was acting editor in 1927. Then, as new editor Ivar Tveit was hired, and from August 1927 ''Sogns Avis'' was the organ for the Norwegian Agrarian Association and the Agrarian Party in the region Sogn. It was stopped in 1941 during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, but resumed from 3 July 1945. In 1947 it was moved from Vikøyri to Sogndal, a regional centre that had lost its newspaper '' Sogns Tidende''. ''Sogns Avis'' was put on hold from November 1945 to 21 August 1959, when Ingvald Husabø became personally involved as acting editor again. Husabø mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aftenposten
( in the masthead; ; Norwegian for "The Evening Post") is Norway's largest printed newspaper by circulation. It is based in Oslo. It sold 211,769 copies in 2015 (172,029 printed copies according to University of Bergen) and estimated 1.2 million readers. It converted from broadsheet to compact format in March 2005. ''Aftenposten''s online edition is at Aftenposten.no. It is considered a newspaper of record for Norway. ''Aftenposten'' is a private company wholly owned by the public company Schibsted ASA. Norway's second largest newspaper, ''VG'', is also owned by Schibsted. Norwegian owners held a 42% of the shares in Schibsted at the end of 2015. The paper has around 740 employees. Trine Eilertsen was appointed editor-in-chief in 2020. History and profile ''Aftenposten'' was founded by Christian Schibsted on 14 May 1860 under the name ''Christiania Adresseblad''. The following year, it was renamed ''Aftenposten''. Since 1885, the paper has printed two daily editions. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipal Council (Norway)
A municipal council is the legislative body of a municipality or local government area. Depending on the location and classification of the municipality it may be known as a city council, town council, town board, community council, rural council, village council, or board of aldermen. Australia Because of the differences in legislation between the states, the exact definition of a city council varies. However, it is generally only those local government areas which have been specifically granted city status (usually on a basis of population) that are entitled to refer to themselves as cities. The official title is "Corporation of the City of ______" or similar. Some of the urban areas of Australia are governed mostly by a single entity (see Brisbane and other Queensland cities), while others may be controlled by a multitude of much smaller city councils. Also, some significant urban areas can be under the jurisdiction of otherwise rural local governments. Periodic re-ali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1941 Births
Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January–August – 10,072 men, women and children with mental and physical disabilities are asphyxiated with carbon monoxide in a gas chamber, at Hadamar Euthanasia Centre in Germany, in the first phase of mass killings under the Action T4 program here. * January 1 – Thailand's Prime Minister Plaek Phibunsongkhram decrees January 1 as the official start of the Thai solar calendar new year (thus the previous year that began April 1 had only 9 months). * January 3 – A decree (''Normalschrifterlass'') promulgated in Germany by Martin Bormann, on behalf of Adolf Hitler, requires replacement of blackletter typefaces by Antiqua (typeface class), Antiqua. * January 4 – The short subject ''Elmer's Pet Rabbit'' is released, marking the second appearance of Bugs Bunny, and also the first to have his name on a title card. * January 5 – WWII: Battle of Bardia in Libya: Australian an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2010 Deaths
This is a list of deaths of notable people, organised by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked here. 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 See also * Lists of deaths by day * Deaths by year {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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