Trygve Stangeland (13 November 1934 – 18 June 2011) was a Norwegian businessperson.
He was born in
Sola
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, and founded the construction company
Stangeland Gruppen in 1959.
The company had a turnover of in 2008, and Stangeland himself has a fortune of NOK 402 million, about .
He resided in
Tjelta.
[ His son ]Olav Stangeland
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is the director of Stangeland Gruppen's daughter company, T. Stangeland Maskin.
On 17 June 2011 he was involved in a bicycle accident near the airport hotel at Stavanger Airport, Sola
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, and sustained a severe head trauma. The injury claimed his life; he died on Stavanger University Hospital
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in the afternoon the next day.
References
1934 births
2011 deaths
People from Sola, Norway
Norwegian company founders
Road incident deaths in Norway
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