1. Petter Anker Stordalen Bjorvand was born on 29 November 1962 and is a Norwegian businessman.
22 Facts About Petter Stordalen
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Petter Stordalen has been a co-owner of SunClass Airlines since 2019.
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Petter Anker Stordalen Bjorvand was born in Porsgrunn on 29 November 1962, the son of Kari and Knut Anker Stordalen.
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Petter Stordalen was the architect of the conversion of the market area in downtown Trondheim and the re-launch of the Liertoppen shopping centre outside Oslo.
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Petter Stordalen was put in charge of the Bik Bok brand.
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The expansion lasted until 1996, when Petter Stordalen had a falling out with the largest shareholder, Stein Erik Hagen, and was asked to leave his position as CEO.
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Petter Stordalen bought Swedish hotel chain Home as well as Norwegian hotel company InterNor and took Choice Hotels Scandinavia public.
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At age 37, Petter Stordalen became a billionaire.
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In 2012, Petter Stordalen opened a hotel, Clarion Post Hotel, with 500 rooms and covered an area of 40,000 square metres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
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At the opening, 10,000 people were gathered to watch a light-and-fireworks display that included Petter Stordalen ascending from the top of the hotel playing the drums inside a 6-by-6-metre disco ball.
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In 2022, Petter Stordalen opened the 231-room, art-deco Somerro Hotel in Oslo, built from the 1930s office that previously belonged to Oslo Lysverker.
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In 2000, Petter Stordalen formed the company Home Invest, consisting of the properties previously owned by Choice Hotels Scandinavia.
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In 2004, Petter Stordalen's Home Invest sold 19 hotel properties to Capona with a settlement in shares.
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In 2007, Petter Stordalen's Home Invest acquired all the shares in Home Capital and delisted the company.
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Petter Stordalen's first purchase was a painting by the American artist Ross Bleckner.
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In January 2013, Petter Stordalen opened a new hotel called The Thief in the Tjuvholmen neighborhood in Oslo.
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Petter Stordalen owns some of Andy Warhol's interpretations of Norwegian artist Edvard Munch.
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Petter Stordalen supported the Bellona Foundation to free their expert Alexander Nikitin, who had been charged with treason for his contributions to a Bellona report on nuclear safety within the Russian Northern Fleet.
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Together with his wife, Gunhild Petter Stordalen, he founded the Petter Stordalen Foundation.
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The foundation supports the European Climate Foundation ; his wife Gunhild Anker Petter Stordalen serves on the organization's supervisory committee.
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Petter Stordalen began dating doctor and former model Gunhild Petter Stordalen in the mid-2000s.
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Petter Stordalen proposed on top of Aspen Mountain on New Year's Eve 2008, and they were married on 12 June 2010.