Trygve Stangeland
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Trygve Stangeland (13 November 1934 – 18 June 2011) was a Norwegian businessperson.
He was born in Sola Municipality, and founded the construction company Stangeland Gruppen in 1959.[1][2] The company had a turnover of 1.5 billion kr in 2008,[3] and Stangeland himself has a fortune of NOK 402 million, about US$70 million.[4]
He resided in Tjelta.[1] His son Olav Stangeland is the director of Stangeland Gruppen's daughter company, T. Stangeland Maskin.[5]
On 17 June 2011 he was involved in a bicycle accident near the airport hotel at Stavanger Airport, Sola, and sustained a severe head trauma. The injury claimed his life; he died on Stavanger University Hospital in the afternoon the next day.[6][7]
