The couple had fought a public battle against drug addiction after meeting in a rehabilitation centre in the s. Million dollar idea: The Tetra Pak. Tetra Pak heir Rausing avoids jail. Image source, Rausing family. Packaging giant. Watch: How the Tetra Pak became a million dollar idea. Image source, Getty Images.
Family controversies. Related Topics. Sweden Inventions Obituaries. Published 4 August Published 1 August I once heard him say he could sell air or water. From to Hans held roles as chief executive and chairman of Tetra Pak, while Gad served initially as deputy managing director. Hans was responsible for Tetra Pak breaking into the Soviet Union, where it became the biggest foreign employer. Today bn patented Tetra Paks are sold each year. There the Rausings designed and built, with the architect John Outram , a terrazzo and steel one-storey building that he named the New House.
He also owned a acre wild boar farm in Tenterden, Kent. Both Hans and Gad eschewed gossip columns and parties. Because it was a private company controlled through a Liechtenstein foundation and a Dutch holding group, the firm could avoid publishing annual reports or accounts. For me it is a passion to try to develop and create industry in different ways. In Rausing received an honorary knighthood in recognition of his philanthropic services.
His Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project at the University of London supports research, training and archiving of disappearing languages. An illusory sense of being special and different, the assumption that one is interesting to other people only, or mainly, because of the money and subsequent feelings of isolation. In she published a memoir, Mayhem , focused on the story of her brother, who became a drug addict in his 20s, and his wife Eva , whom he met in an American rehab clinic, and who was found dead at their home in London in July She had died two months earlier from what the coroner called the effects of cocaine on a damaged heart.
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