Rabbe Grönblom, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Finnish entrepreneur, businessman
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Place of Birth: Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
About Rabbe Grönblom
- Rabbe Anders Grönblom (May 3, 1950 in Helsinki, Finland – June 29, 2015) was a Finnish-Swedish businessman who started a successful pizza business in Vaasa, Finland.
- His first company—a pizzeria—was called O sole mio and it was founded in 1976 in the center of Vaasa.
- From there he expanded to a pizza franchise chain first called Pizzeria N:o 1.
- He was known as the "Pizza-emperor" (Pizzakeisari in Finnish), because he was the founder of a well known pizza franchise chain called Kotipizza which was the new name of Pizzeria N:o 1 which expanded fast outside of Vaasa.
- The chain is said to be the biggest one in the Nordic countries.
- He was also the founder of a shipping company called RG Line, a hotel chain called Omenahotelli and another pizza chain called Golden Rax Pizzabuffet.
- Most of his companies are subsidiaries of Grönblom International LTD, where Rabbe Grönblom acted as director.
- Golden Rax Pizzabuffet however is nowadays a part of Finland's largest hotel & restaurant company Restel Oy Ltd, where Rabbe Grönblom sat on the board.
- He was also on the board of the Finnish tyre company Nokian Renkaat (since 2003).
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