Niels Peter Louis-Hansen
Humlebaek, Denmark
Denmark
medical devices
$6,300,000,000
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#325 Billionaires 2019
Niels Peter Louis-Hansen is the deputy chairman of Coloplast, a large Danish healthcare company.The company provides medical devices and services in the fields of colostomy, continence and urology; products include colostomy bags and catheters.Hansen owns one-fifth of the public company and is its largest shareholder.His late father, Aage Louis-Hansen, founded the business in 1957 and took it public in 1983.He also holds a stake in fellow medical care device company Ambu, based right outside of Copenhagen.
Louis-Hansen is the largest shareholder in a Danish blood testing company called ViroGates, which had its IPO in 2018. Louis-Hansen also manages a foundation, named after his late parents, that funds cultural and scientific initiatives, and which owns 11% of Coloplast.
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