Lennart Johansson

industrialist, Swedish football administrator, president of UEFA (1990 - 2007)

In the history of enterprise, Lennart Johansson is one of the names that keeps returning.

The record lists Lennart Johansson as industrialist, Swedish football administrator, president of UEFA (1990 - 2007).

Lennart Johansson was born at Bromma city district in 1929. His recorded nationality is Sweden.

Post-war business was mass-market and increasingly multinational, managed by professionals rather than owners.

He worked as politician, sports executive and industrialist.

His recorded affiliations include Forbo Holding.

Business reputations are unusually sensitive to the decade in which they were made.

Recognition followed: Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2005), Order of Friendship (1999), Order of Merit, 1st class and Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 3rd class.

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

Lennart Johansson died in 2019, aged 90. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.

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