1. Anders Ruben Andersson was born in 1895 in Raa, a small fishing hamlet in the district of Raus outside of Helsingborg in the south of Sweden, to August and Mathilda Andersson.
10 Facts About Ruben Rausing
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Ruben Rausing's father ran a small but successful business as a master painter.
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Ruben Rausing went to Upper Secondary School in Helsingborg, graduating in 1915.
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When doing his military service, Rausing, at the time still called Ruben Andersson, was allegedly nicknamed rausingen by his fellow servicemen, meaning "the lad from Raus".
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At the time, non-carbonated drinks such as milk and juices were sold in heavy and cumbersome glass bottles and Ruben Rausing was determined to find a way of implementing the new, modern packaging technology, spending a lot of resources on developing new concepts.
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The new packaging system was not an immediate success and the company had difficulties throughout the 1950s, with Ruben Rausing continuing to spend large amounts on development.
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Ruben Rausing was made Doctor Honoris Causa in Medicine at Lund University in 1957, in Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics and Business Administration in 1959 and in Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology in 1977.
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Ruben Rausing was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.
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Ruben Rausing was married to Elisabeth and had three sons; Gad, Hans, and Sven Rausing.
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For tax reasons, Ruben Rausing left Sweden for Rome in 1969.