Thomas Johan Blehr (8 February 1924 – 2 May 2022) was a Norwegian businessman.
Blehr was born in
Oslo
Oslo ( or ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of 1,064,235 in 2022 ...
on 8 February 1924. He graduated from the
Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
The Norwegian School of Economics () or NHH is a business school situated in Bergen, Norway. It was founded in 1936 as Norway's first business school and is the leading teaching and research institution in Norway for the fields of management and ...
in 1947, and was hired in the paint company
Alf Bjercke. He eventually became CEO,
but following the merger in 1972, he was the
CFO of
Jotun from 1972 to 1991. Blehr chaired the National Paint & Coatings Association—his
employers' association
An employers' organization or employers' association is a collective organization of manufacturers, retailers, or other employers of wage labor. Employers' organizations seek to coordinate the behavior of their member companies in matters of mutua ...
—and was a member of the board of the
Federation of Norwegian Industries
The Federation of Norwegian Industries () is an employers' organisation in Norway
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as well as several companies. He was involved in
Rotary, as a Paul Harris Fellow.
[
Blehr died on 2 May 2022, at the age of 98.]
References
1924 births
2022 deaths
Businesspeople from Oslo
Norwegian School of Economics alumni
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