Kjeld Anker Ammentorp (10 November 1895 – 23 October 1975) was the founder of

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, one of the United Kingdom's largest

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businesses.

Career

Born in

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in Denmark, Kjeld Ammentorp moved to the United Kingdom in 1919.Ammentorp Genealogy
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by training, Ammentorp took advantage of the invention of self-agitating cement trucks in the 1920s. He built his first plant in 1930 at

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in London, bought cement mixers from Denmark and expanded his business into one of the largest in the United Kingdom. In 1952 he sold his company to Sam Stirling who had developed a similar business in Australia. Ammentorp remained on the board of the company until 1958 but retired to Denmark in 1961. He died in 1975 at

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and is buried in

.Kjeld Ammentorp at Ancestry.com
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Kjeld Ammentorp
at geni.com 1895 births 1975 deaths 20th-century Danish businesspeople Businesspeople from Copenhagen People from Frederiksberg Danish emigrants to England Danish company founders British businesspeople Danish civil engineers British civil engineers {{UK-business-bio-1890s-stub