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LONDON (Reuters) – Hans Rausing, the billion-dollar Swedish industrialist who helped make Tetra Pak one of the world's largest food packaging companies, died at the age of 93, his family said. a statement.
Rausing, the son of Reuben Rausing, founder of Tetra Pak, died Friday at his home in Wadhurst Park in the south of England.
"Hans Rausing, industrialist and entrepreneur, died peacefully in his sleep at home … Friday, August 30", says the release of the family. "His wife Marit was at his side."
Rausing co-inherited half of his father's Tetra Laval box office in 1983 and sold his stake in his brother Gad in 1995 for about $ 7 billion.
In the 2011 Forbes World Ranking, Rausing was ranked 83rd with a fortune estimated at $ 10 billion.
He moved to England in 1982 and settled on the Wadhurst Park estate in East Sussex, where he was interested in sports and country living, the statement said.
In 2006, he was named Honorary Knight of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) for his philanthropic activities.
He is survived by his wife, daughters Lisbet and Sigrid, and his son Hans Kristian Rausing.
(Written by William Schomberg and Stephen Addison, edited by David Evans)
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