Petter Stordalen & family
$1.32B
as of 10/04/24
About Petter Stordalen & family
Petter Stordalen and his three children own Scandinavia's largest hotel chain, Nordic Choice Hotels, which has 180 high-end hotels in five countries.
In 2018 he signed over almost all ownership, but none of the control, of the hotel chain to his kids; he has vowed to keep control until his death.
Stordalen got his start working at his father's grocery store at age 10, and later helped found one of Norway's largest commercial real estate firms.
He married model-turned-physician Gunhild Stordalen in a lavish $5 million affair officiated by Irish singer Bob Geldof in 2010.
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Citizenship
NorwaySource of wealth
HotelsResidence
Oslo, NorwayMarital status
MarriedBirth date
11/29/62 (age 61)Self-made
self-madePetter Stordalen & family’s fortune is worth
22K
troy ounces of gold
20K
median U.S. household
13K
median U.S. income
0.026%
U.S. credit card volume
0.005%
GDP of the United States
0.004%
United States debt
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Did you know?
A committed environmentalist, Stordalen chained himself to the U.K.'s Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in protest in 2002.
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