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  Hans Rausing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Professor Hans Rausing KBE (born in 1926), a Swedish businessman, is among the world's wealthiest people with a reported net worth of 8 billion US dollars (2004).
Rausing currently lives in Wadhurst, East Sussex, England on a 900 acre (3.6 km²) estate.
Rausing owns a residence in Barbados, and also in his homeland Sweden, where he often vacations.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hans_Rausing   (193 words)

  
 Wikipedia: Tetra Pak
It was founded in 1951 in Lund, Sweden by Ruben Rausing and Erik Wallenberg.
Rausing had been working on the design since 1943, and by 1950 had perfected techniques for making his cartons fully airtight, using a system of plastic coated paperboard.
Ruben Rausing's son Hans ran Tetra Pak from 1954 until 1985, taking the company from a seven-person concern to one of Sweden's largest corporations.
www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/t/te/tetra_pak.html   (177 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | How the richest man in Britain avoids tax
When Rausing originally bought the land for his palace, in 1975, he diverted its ownership to the same offshore company which was to own his farm across the border in Kent.
Rausing suggested to me that it would have been "immoral" for his farming business not to have taken the grants: "If you are running a commercial farm business you run it commercially.
But the sum of Hans Rausing's donations is nowhere the near the total which he might have paid in tax over his 20 years in England and which would have been distributed according to the wishes of the democratically elected government.
www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,,682232,00.html   (2958 words)

  
 Observer | Leader of the pack
Hans Rausing folds his 6ft 8in frame behind the wheel of the battered 1952 Citroën 2CV and beckons to his King Charles spaniel, Tess, who hops in beneath the bench seats.
Rausing, who until five years ago was co-owner with his brother of Tetra Pak, the phenomenally successful packaging company whose laminated drinks cartons are found around the globe, is renowned for shunning the trappings of his estimated $7.7 billion fortune.
Rausing's 40-year-old daughter Lisbet is the equivalent of a non-executive director and deputy chairman.
observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4234305-102271,00.html   (1844 words)

  
 The Observer | Focus | The generous millionaire who saved Granta
Rausing is the heir to the Tetra-Pak packaging phenomenon which her grandfather Ruben invented 53 years ago.
Hopes have been buoyed by Rausing's characteristically succinct statement on her purchase of the company for an undisclosed sum, in which she announced that she intended to keep the magazine's 'unrivalled' position as a showcase for new writing.
Rausing is a most unusual heiress; often spotted without a trace of make-up with her only jewellery a wedding ring, she is variously described as modest and demure.
observer.guardian.co.uk /focus/story/0,6903,1588139,00.html   (1211 words)

  
 Ruben Rausing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ruben Rausing (1895 - 1983) was the co-founder of the liquid food packaging company Tetra Pak.
The tetrahedron liquid packaging was patented on March 27, 1944; which later became Tetra Pak.
The company was inherited by his children Hans Rausing and Gad Rausing.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ruben_Rausing   (128 words)

  
 Hans Rausing - TheBestLinks.com - Sweden, United Kingdom, United States dollar, Tetra Pak, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Hans Rausing, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States dollar, Tetra Pak, Forbes...
Hans Rausing has been one of the 100 richest people, according to Forbes magazine in the world since 1995, when he sold his half of Tetra Laval, the company his father started, to his brother, for a reported $7 billion.
He was managing director of subsidiary Tetra Pak from 1954 till 1985 and chairman of the Board of directors till 1993.
www.thebestlinks.com /Hans_Rausing.html   (177 words)

  
 Tetra Pak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The company is part of the Tetra Laval group which also includes Sidel that specializes in PET bottles.
These initial cartons were tetrahedrons having 4 sides, leading to the company's name, which means "four" in Greek.
Ruben Rausing's son Hans Rausing ran Tetra Pak from 1954 until 1985, taking the company from a seven-person concern to one of Sweden's largest corporations.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tetra-Pak   (1011 words)

  
 Sunday Times Rich List: Top 10 by channel4.com/4money   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Food packaging supremos (and notable benefactors), Hans Rausing and family slip down a place to number three, totalling £4.95 billion due to their investment income.
Hans Rausing sold his half of the revolutionary Tetra Laval company (milk and juice packaging) to his brother in 1995 and has since invested in new ventures including Ecolean - a chalk-based, environmentally-friendly packaging material.
Combined, the sibling's stake of the Rausing fortune is valued at £2.575 billion.
www.channel4.com /4money/funnymoney/features/sunday_times_rich_list_200404_page2.html   (307 words)

  
 The fairytale castle and the offshore money web - [Sunday Herald]
The “real” or beneficial owner of Corrour Estate is understood to be Lisbet Rausing, the eldest of three children of Hans Rausing, the Swedish industrialist who made his fortune from drinks cartons.
Hans Rausing has lived in the UK for 20 years while enjoying non-domicile tax status.
The directors are Dr Joseph L Koerner and Philip M Prettejohn, a financial adviser to the Rausing family and senior partner of Rawlinson and Hunter International, an international firm of chartered accountants with a network of offices from Switzerland to the Caribbean.
www.sundayherald.com /37227   (1101 words)

  
 isntapundit : A Blog by a Brilliant, Uneducated Snob   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Rausing is fabulously wealthy, which earns him the Guardian's natural ire and enmity; the articles detail all his dirty (and highly effective) tax-avoidance tricks.
Inside the palace, Rausing walks on marble floors, warmed in winter by underfloor heating, taking his leisure in the gold-fitted Jacuzzi or in the indoor pool or among the tropical plants in the conservatory hothouse, served throughout the year by his housekeeper, his secretary, his chauffeur and his part-time cook.
When [Rausing] set up his farm in Kent, on 1,800 acres of arable land, he was anxious to try to reduce the number of workers.
isntapundit.com /?date=20020415   (1998 words)

  
 Hans Rausing: bio and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Hans Rausing (born in 1926), EHandler: no quick summary.
He made his wealth from his co-inheritance of Tetra Laval[For more info, click on this link], EHandler: no quick summary.
Rausing currently lives in East Sussex East Sussex quick summary:
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/ha/hans_rausing.htm   (622 words)

  
 GNN - Government News Network
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Professor Hans Anders Rausing to be an honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE) in recognition of his philanthropic services.
The Hans and Marit Rausing Charitable Trust was established as a grant-making trust in 2002.
The Marit and Hans Rausing Charitable Foundation was established as a grant-making trust in 1996.
www.gnn.gov.uk /Content/Detail.asp?ReleaseID=192773&NewsAreaID=2   (297 words)

  
 Reporter 14/11/01:: Report of the General Board on the title of the Professorship of History and Philosophy of Science
Dr Rausing has also requested that the presently untitled Professorship of History and Philosophy of Science, held since 1 October 2001 by Professor P. Lipton, be renamed the Hans Rausing Professorship of History and Philosophy of Science in honour of her father, Dr Hans Rausing who is himself a most generous benefactor to the University.
That the Professorship of History and Philosophy of Science, established by Grace 2 of 5 June 1996, be retitled the Hans Rausing Professorship of History and Philosophy of Science in perpetuity.
That regulations for the Rausing Fund for History and Philosophy of Science, as set out in the Schedule to this Report, be approved.
www.admin.cam.ac.uk /reporter/2001-02/weekly/5863/21.html   (624 words)

  
 Skåne - € 2,14 million donation to cancer research
The Brittish foundation The Märit and Hans Rausing Caritable Foundation has donated € 2,14 million to a group of researchers at the faculty of Medicine in Lund.
The group is in charge of the BRIGGT (BRain Immuno Gene Tumour Therapy) research project, which aims at finding new methods for the treatment of malignant brain tumours.
A laboratory for experimental neuro-oncology was opened in Lund in 1978 and since 1980 the department collaborated with the dept for Tumour Immunology as well as with a large number of institutions within different faculties of Lund University as well as internationally.
www.skane.com /cmarter/cmarter.asp?doc=894   (213 words)

  
 Hans Rausing, The World's Richest People - Forbes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Hans Rausing, The World's Richest People - Forbes.com
Sold his share in packaging giant Tetra Laval, the company founded by his father Ruben in 1944, to brother Gad for an estimated $7 billion in 1995.
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www.forbes.com /lists/2006/10/SEAW.html   (175 words)

  
 February 2002 decisions
The tax avoidance obsessions of the richest man in Britain, Hans Rausing, were the subject of an investigative article in the Guardian (U.K.), “Playing the system”, by Nick Davies, 11/4/02.
Hans Rausing, 76, earned one of the largest cash fortunes in history six years ago [in 1996] when he sold his interest in 50%of Tetra Pak, the Swedish company which makes the ubiquitous milk cartons.
Rausing told us he had never been interested in tax questions.
canterbury.cyberplace.org.nz /community/CAFCA/cafca02/feb02.html   (4544 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The duke, who owns huge parcels of land in central London and elsewhere, is worth $9.2 billion, according to the survey.
Hans Rausing, the Swedish-born packaging billionaire, was third in the list with a fortune valued at $9.1 billion, followed by British retailer Philip Green with $6.6 billion.
According to the survey, the combined wealth of Britain's richest 1,000 people has risen from $286.78 billion in 2003 to $372.45 billion this year, a record 30 percent increase.
www.katu.com /printstory.asp?ID=66432   (187 words)

  
 Hans Rausing - Fortune - Billionaire list   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Hans Rausing (born in 1926) is a businessman from Sweeden.
His wealth comes from the co-inheritance of his father Ruben Rausing's company Tetra Pak (later called Tetra Laval).
Hans Rausing served as the managing director in Tetra Laval for 35 years until he sold his block of shares to his brother Gad in 1996 for approximately 7 billion dollars.
jane.turtlemeat.com /hans-rausing.php   (111 words)

  
 BBC News | UK | Rich getting richer and younger
The British-based Swedish industrialist Hans Rausing has toppled Lord Sainsbury, of the family supermarket company, from the top of the Sunday Times Rich List.
Mr Rausing's father Ruben patented the box-shaped beverage container 30 years ago, making his company Tetra Pak into one of the world's largest paper-packaging businesses.
Hans Rausing, who came second in last year's list, sold his stake in the company, now called Tetra Laval, to his Swiss-based brother Gad in 1995.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/uk/315837.stm   (740 words)

  
 Hans Rausing Returns to the Packaging Industry
EUROPE, Jan. 29 -/E-Wire/-- Hans Rausing, formerly chief executive officer and chairman of the Tetra Pak and Tetra Laval group, is becoming a principal investor in the EcoLean group.
Ake Rosen, the company's founder, will concentrate on the continuing research work in close cooperation with Hans Rausing and the company's customers.
In addition a supervisory board has been formed consisting of Hans Rausing (chairman), Tuve Johannesson, Ove Mattson, Jacob Palmstierna, Lisbet Rausing and Ake Rosen.
www.ewire.com /display.cfm/Wire_ID/9   (487 words)

  
 Centre for Mathematical Sciences   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Patron of the Foundation, Professor Hans Rausing, has a personal fascination with mathematics, and a particular interest in the study of the universe and theoretical cosmology.
The benefaction is warmly welcomed by Professor David Crighton, Head of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, "We are immensely grateful to the Marit and Hans Rausing Charitable Foundation for this very generous donation.
Professor Hans Rausing was born in Sweden in 1926 but has lived in England with his wife, Marit, for 17 years.
www.cms.cam.ac.uk /pr.2.html   (394 words)

  
 European Business Forum: From milk bottles to MBAs: EBF talks to Professor Hans Rausing, retired president of ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
From milk bottles to MBAs: EBF talks to Professor Hans Rausing, retired president of TetraPak.(View from the top)
The new MBA course was principally funded by donations from Swedish industrialist Hans Rausing, retired president of TetraPak, the world's largest liquid packaging company.
Rausing, now visiting Professor in Malardalens Hogskola and honorary Professor in Dubna, delivered the...
highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:133330996&refid=ink_tptd_mag   (213 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | England | Southern Counties | Rausing stays UK's second richest
Food packaging tycoon Hans Rausing is the second richest man in the UK, according to the annual Sunday Times Rich List.
The list, published on Sunday, shows Mr Rausing, who lives in Wadhurst in East Sussex, having a personal fortune of £4.8bn.
Mr Rausing, 77, made his fortune from the Tetra Laval milk carton, patented by his father Ruben in the 1960s and which allows milk to be kept fresh without refrigeration.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/england/southern_counties/2980355.stm   (305 words)

  
 ZoomInfo Web Summary: Hans Rausing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Academic director and Hans Rausing Assistant Professor of Economics, Center for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR), 2000-present
Hans Rausing Assistant Professorship award funded from the Kurt and Olga Charitable Trust funds, since 1998 Papers published in refereed journals
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www.zoominfo.com /directory/Rausing_Hans_443680056.htm   (81 words)

  
 Packaging Magazine - News - Materials - 26 January 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Hans Rausing, former CEO and chairman of Tetra Pak and Tetra Laval, is investing in the EcoLean group.
He will be a member of the board along with chairman Tuve Johannesson, Åke Rosén and Luc Hollman.
EcoLean has a presence in eastern Europe and China and is aiming at other markets around the world.
www.dotpackaging.com /news/materials/01_01_26.shtml   (242 words)

  
 Whitby - plankton on the streets, Cretehawser - concrete tug in Ezine 84   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Tetra Pak is owned by the Rausing family - in the Rich Report (UK) 2003 in the Mail on Sunday newspaper last weekend, Dr Hans Rausing, milk carton magnate (who sold his 50% interest in Tetra Pak to his brother, Gad in 1995) occupied the number one position with a fortune of £6.3 billion.
In 7th position on the list is Kirsten Rausing with £1.8 billion - she inherited most of her fortune when her father Gad Rausing died in 2000.
His UK investment company Alta Advisers escapes paying tax because all the profits are donated to the family charity - the Marit and Hans Rausing Charitable Foundation.
www.mg002b3988.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /ezine84.htm   (4212 words)

  
 Jewish Care
Billionaire Swedish industrialist, Professor Hans Rausing and his wife will be the guests of honour at an exclusive soirée to raise funds for Jewish Care’s Holocaust Survivors’ Centre.
Professor Rausing was approached by 83-year-old Auschwitz survivor, Freddie Knoller, founder and chairman of Friends of The Holocaust Survivors’ Centre.
This is their inaugural event and takes place on November 10 to coincide with Kristallnacht — the night of breaking glass — when the Nazis plundered synagogues, Jewish shops and homes.
www.jewishcare.org /news?disp_feature=j4dTjH   (1005 words)

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