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  Harry Harkimo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Harry "Hjallis" Harkimo (born: 1953) is a Finnish businessman.
He is best-known as chairman of the board of the Helsinki-based ice-hockey team Jokerit, the developer of its home arena, Hartwall Areena (aka Hjallis-halli).
Harry Harkimo and Merikukka Forsius-Harkimo divorced after one year of marriage.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harry_Harkimo   (114 words)

  
 HS Sport 7.6.2000 - Harkimo eyeing Stockholm hockey team
Harry Harkimo, chairman of the board of the Helsinki ice hockey team Jokerit, hopes to expand his sports empire into Sweden.
Harkimo has also invested in a new arena that is going up in Hamburg, and there are reports that the Finnish sports mogul is looking for a German hockey team to be the arena's main star.
However, it also appears that Harkimo sees the growth potential of hockey as limited, and he has taken a greater interest in soccer, where the real money is seen to be.
www2.hs.fi /english/archive/news.asp?id=20000607xx5   (362 words)

  
 HS Business & Finance 8.11.2002 - Jokerit Group to build multipurpose arena in Stuttgart
Harry Harkimo, the Jokerit Group CEO, explains that his company has won the bidding contest for the building of the arena.
Harkimo believes the building of the Stuttgart arena will prove to be "a very good business move".
On his computer, Harkimo demonstrates the use of one of the fruits of this conceptualisation: a database containing all the phases of the construction process.
www2.hs.fi /english/archive/news.asp?id=20021108IE7   (751 words)

  
 Harry: harry nilsson
In Norway, the word "harry" is a derogatory term used for describing the Norwegian stereotype of a vulgar, unsophisticated person or something that is generally unclassy.
Harry H Corbett - not to be confused with the puppeteer, this actor was famous as Harold in the British sitcom Steptoe and Son
Harry Hotspur - nickname of Henry Percy, who appears in Henry IV, Part I (Shakespeare), and was a rebel, killed at the Battle of Shrewsbury 1403
en.straightworldbank.com /wiki/Harry   (2564 words)

  
 Keskustelut HS.fi (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Urheilun liikemies Harry Harkimo kirjoittaa 26.11.2006 Helsingin Sanomien Urheilusivujen ”Aikalisä” – palstalla, että Tanja Saarela on ollut kelvoton ministeri urheiluväen kannalta.
Harkimo ei tietenkään vaivaannu esittämään ensimmäistäkään faktaa herjaustensa perusteeksi.
Eli Harkimo voisi mennä hattu kourassa ministeri Pekkarisen luokse.
www.hs.fi.cob-web.org:8888 /keskustelu/message.jspa?messageID=857831   (731 words)

  
 Harry Harkimon - Haku - HS.fi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Harkimo on toinen varjoselvitysmiehistä, joille kunta on antanut valtuudet tutkia, kuinka Sipoo voisi itsenäisesti rahoittaa pääkaupunkiseudun laajenemisesta aiheutuvat kustannukset.
Todista luvuilla, prosenttimuutoksilla ja kehityskäyrillä, miten urheilun rahoitukselle on käynyt, Harry Harkimo, pyytää Tari Haahtila.
Liikemies Harry "Hjallis" Harkimon urheilujoukkue laajentuu nyt jo tenniksen puolelle.
www.hs.fi /haku/?haku=Harry+Harkimon   (230 words)

  
 Aftonbladet sport: Nya AIK-hockey
AIK:s nye storägare Harry Harkimo äger flera klubbar och arenor i Europa.
Sista världsomseglingen gjorde ”Hjallis” Harkimo 1990 och det var då han på Nya Zeeland av en ren tillfällighet träffade Kalervo Kummola, styrelseledamot i Jokerit.
Harry Harkimo gick in som ägare i Jokerit och några år senare stod Europas modernaste ishall klar, Hartwall Arena i Helsingfors.
www.aftonbladet.se /sport/0009/01/harkimo.html   (944 words)

  
 キーラ・コルピ研究所/Addicted to Kiira Korpi!(a fan blog) : Who's Mr. Harry ...
Kiira talked with Harry "Hjallis" Harkimo and Anna Sorainen on a MTV3 talkshow in March.
Just a detail, Harry Harkimo is the actual name and "Hjallis" is the nickname, but to everybody he is known as Hjallis Harkimo.
As for pronouncing, Harry and Harkimo are pronounced like they are written and Hjallis is pronounced something like "jallis" (the "h" fades away).
kiira.exblog.jp /3357974   (138 words)

  
 Jokerit AntiFanClub   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Kiekkoprofessori Hjallis Harkimo tiesi syyn Suomen hopeahäviöön: Joukkue ei ollut tarpeaksi nälkäinen.
Minulle kerrottiin, että sillä on hyvä omistaja, Harry Harkimo, joka on pelaajille läheinen ja pyrkii tekemään kaiken mahdollisen pelaajien eteen.
Se on koskettanut, ja laittaa pohtimaan entistä enemmän, mihin Harry Harkimon omistamassa ja johtamassa jääkiekkoseurassa on menty ja mihin mennään.
members.tripod.com /antijokerit/sitaatit.html   (1589 words)

  
 Aftonbladet sport: Pengakampen om AIK
Det var i början av 90-talet som Harkimo gick in och köpte Jokerit som då var ett bottenlag i finska ligan.
Förhandlingarna mellan AIK, Harkimo och Anschutz har pågått hela natten.
Pamparnas kamp om AIK i natt Finske miljonären Harkimo tar upp fajten med Anschutz.
www.aftonbladet.se /sport/0006/30/aik.html   (521 words)

  
 EFP: FC Jokerit
The club's new president is Harry Harkimo, who has also run the ice hockey club with the same name since 1992.
Rautiainen is a very ambitious man; his area marking system is very demanding for his equally matched squad, which lack a real star.
Der Verein wird neuerdings durch Harry Harkimo präsidiert, der seit 1992 dem gleichnamigen Eishockey-Klub vorsteht.
www.intertoto-cup.com /uic_1999/teams/fin_jokerit.html   (389 words)

  
 uefa.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
When in March this year, Finnish top-flight side FC Jokerit decided to cut their losses and disband after five seasons in the Veikkausliiga, it was a time of uncertainty for all connected with the club.
Having consistently made heavy losses, the Vantaa-based team's owner Harry Harkimo was keen to concentrate on his other business interests, but during the winter break he did an excellent job of finding buyers for the club's assets, with the first team and associated paraphernalia sold en masse to HJK Helsinki.
With the first-team players having found new clubs or signed contracts to play with HJK or new club HJK Academy, you would have thought all the problems would have been solved.
www.uefa.com /News/Kind=32/newsId=168634.html   (564 words)

  
 But there's still a puck, right?
 Built six years ago by Harry Harkimo, Jokerit's chairman and head of a European financial and arena design company, Hartwall will be the jumpoff point for Toronto's three-game Scandinavian exhibition series, known as the National Hockey League Challenge.
 "This is a great opportunity for the fans and the players," Harkimo said.
The savvy Harkimo got the land for the rink at a cheap price because of the rocky terrain and saved on heating and cooling costs by installing the second rink below.
www.canoe.ca /Slam030916/nhl_tor3-sun.html   (340 words)

  
 FIM Horse Show Information - FIM Horse Show continues at Hartwall Areena   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
And what is especially good for horses, photographers and television is the lightning, said Event Director Tom Gordin.
Also Harry Harkimo from Hartwall Areena was pleased.
The show is 99 percent ideal for us, exept for the one percent, horse muck, Harkimo smiled.
www.hihs.info /content/view/43/4/lang,en   (125 words)

  
 ESPNsoccernet - Europe - Finnish champions to buy city rivals
The deal ends the foray into football by Finnish sports mogul Harry Harkimo, whose high-spending ways had turned Jokerit into a force in the country's SM-liiga ice hockey league.
HJK said in a statement that once approval for the move was received from league officials Jokerit - who finished 10th in the Veikkausliiga last season - would be renamed HJK Academy.
Jokerit were formed in 1999 when Harkimo bought Helsinki side PK-35.
soccernet.espn.go.com /news/story?id=293291&cc=3436   (326 words)

  
 uefa.com - Football Europe - News & Features - News Specific   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The official decisions concerning these matters will be made later today when the board of the Finnish league meets.
Jokerit were formed in 1999 when Harry Harkimo, the chairman of one of Finland's biggest ice hockey clubs also called Jokerit, bought the football club PK-35, who had won promotion to Veikkausliiga a year earlier and finished third in their first season in top flight.
The newly renamed Jokerit won the Finnish Cup in their very first season in 1999 and finished fourth in the league.
www.uefa.com /FootballEurope/news/Kind=2/newsId=151504.html   (328 words)

  
 INTERNATIONAL ICE HOCKEY FEDERATION | HEADLINES
After TPS Turku’s triumph in the inaugural season, no one had forecast the absence of the Finnish clubs from the EHL final tournament.
Harry Harkimo, President of Jokerit Helsinki, - we really feel like this will be the right year to achieve something important.
In the past we have won the European Cup twice, now the time to conquer the EHL has arrived>.
www.iihf.com /news/press1998.htm   (690 words)

  
 Newcastle Vipers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The club were founded August 2002 after a season without a professional Ice Hockey team in Newcastle.
Previously, the city was represented by the Newcastle Jesters who were founded in 1999 by Finnish businessman Harry Harkimo who purchased the franchise from the Ice Hockey Superleague.
The franchise had previously been owned by John Hall who had owned the club as part of his ambitious 'Newcastle Sporting Club' project and known as the Newcastle Cobras and later the Newcastle Riverkings.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Newcastle_Vipers   (262 words)

  
 Ice Hockey: Newcastle's new start
Newcastle, who had been administered by the Superleague since Sir John Hall's sporting club pulled out in June 1998, have signed a deal with Harry Harkimo, owner of
Harkimo will run the Riverkings in conjunction with the Superleague with a view to fully taking over next season.
Newcastle do, however, still look weak in personnel as they face Nottingham Panthers, the holders, in tonight's Benson & Hedges Cup encounter.
www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1999/08/31/soice31.html   (218 words)

  
 Easy Soccer :: View topic - Bayern Leverkusen going MLS?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
AEG hätte damit gleichzeitig seine Position auf dem deutschen Hallen-Markt gestärkt, auf den auch der finnische Reeder Harry Harkimo (Color Line Arena Hamburg) drängt.
A few more seats and a variable roof drauf - would be finished one meeting-resounds, which could cover that range in the German west, for which the Cologne arena (18,000 places) too small and the arena AufSchalke (60,000) is too large.
AEG would have strengthened at the same time with it its position on the German resounding market, on which also the Finnish shipowner Harry Harkimo (Color LINE arena Hamburg) pushes.
www.easysoccer.net /t81351p1-bayern-leverkusen-going-mls.htm   (1802 words)

  
 INTERNATIONAL ICE HOCKEY FEDERATION | HEADLINES
Markku Hurme tallied the game winner with 5:07 to go in the game and Tuomainen added an empty netter for IFK.
The owner of Jokerit, Harry Harkimo, was extremely disappointed about the loss: "Tonight’s weak goaltending (goalie Markus Ketter was pulled out after the first period after allowing 3 goals on 11 shots) and the late injury of our center Otakar Janecky are the biggest reasons for our defeat".
The second Finnish team who advanced to the Semi-final Round is Ilves Tampere who suffered for a long part of the game against a very active EV Zug.
www.iihf.com /news/press0699.htm   (1515 words)

  
 Yacht Racing
When it came back up, I wasn't on board anymore.
It took me 10 seconds to puIl myself back." Harry Harkimo, Finland Twenty-five competitors reach the starting line for the second BOC Around Alone Race -- 27,000 miles solo around the world.
The calm August day soon dissolves into a battle with the world's most grueling element: the sea.
www.marinevideos.com /yachtracing.htm   (1348 words)

  
 Hockey's Future: The #1 Online Prospects Magazine - Covering the WHL, QMJHL, AHL, OHL, College, The NHL Entry Draft, ...
Would you like to remain longer in Switzerland - if necessary, even if you need to obtain Swiss citizenship?
Or could you be lured to the German Hockey League at some point, particularly, since Finnish investor Harry Harkimo plans on installing a DEL team in your native Hamburg.
RB: I'd have to give up German citizenship to get the Swiss citizenship.
hockeysfuture.com /article.php?sid=4511   (1779 words)

  
 German Elite League Hockey * English coverage of Germany's DEL Deutsche Eishockey Liga
Munich’s ownership, the Anschutz Entertainment Group, which also controls the fate of the LA Kings and DEL rival Berlin Eisbären, decided it had seen enough of the Bavarian capital after three successful seasons.
They joined forces with Finnish businessman Harry Harkimo and moved the Barons to Hamburg where a newly-built 14,000-seat state-of-the art arena will serve as their new homestead - not before mid-November, though, as the venue is still under construction.
Now called the Hamburg Freezers, the team faces the big burden of starting out the season with twelve straight road games.
baseportal.de /baseportal/fjohne/template&db=news&Id==114   (1669 words)

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