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It's Pöyry, not Poyry. Another formerly Finnish industrial family. I should do a diary one day about them, since I have seen some of these dynasties from the inside.

Pöyry PLC is now in the hands of institutional investors with net sales of € 620 million, but other parts of the empire are still in the family.

For more dynastical fun you have to look up Ahlström (now officially Ahlstrom), Ehrnrooth, Paulig, Fazer, Hartwall, Strömberg etc. Not too many Finnish names in there ;-).

But look at Finnish joint stock companies of 100 employees or less and you'll find 1000's of Finnish-named family companies. It is not especially tax-beneficial, it simply reflects recent Finnish entrepreneurial  history. 'You run a farm, you can run a company'

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Wed Aug 29th, 2007 at 05:08:52 PM EST
For more dynastical fun you have to look up Ahlström (now officially Ahlstrom), Ehrnrooth, Paulig, Fazer, Hartwall, Strömberg etc. Not too many Finnish names in there ;-).

Do you know the old leftist song "Laulu 20 perheestä" ("Song about the 20 families")? Its chorus lists the names of those families who supposedly owned Finland (in 1969, when the song was written).

You have a normal feeling for a moment, then it passes. --More--
by tzt (tztmail at gmail dot com) on Thu Aug 30th, 2007 at 11:31:29 AM EST
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