Alfred Kordelin

Finnish businessman (1868–1917)

Alfred Kordelin built a career in business at a period when the rules of commerce were themselves changing.

The record lists Alfred Kordelin as Finnish businessman (1868–1917).

Alfred Kordelin was born at Rauma in 1868. His recorded nationality is Grand Duchy of Finland.

Industrialisation changed the scale of everything: factories, railways, joint-stock capital and the first modern corporations.

He worked as entrepreneur and businessperson.

His recorded holdings include N. Bauerin Sukka- ja Trikootehdas.

Enterprises outlive their founders or they do not, and that is the whole test.

That the business was built from Grand Duchy of Finland shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.

Alfred Kordelin died in 1917, aged 49. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.

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