Josef Sachs

Photo of Sachs, taken 1900-1920.

Josef Ernst Sachs was a Swedish businessman and one of the two founders of the Nordiska Kompaniet department store in Stockholm.

Born on January 4, 1872 in Stockholm, he became a student there in 1890. Devoteing himself to commercial exercises abroad, upon his return he worked with his father and later became president of the Josef Leja department store in 1902.[1] He would later serve as president of Nordiska Kompaniet from 1902–37, Deputy Chairman of the Board 1933-44, then chairman of the firm until his death in 1949.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Various (1916). Nordisk familjebok (in Swedish). Retrieved July 5, 2914. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  2. ↑ Historian of the Digitalt Museum (2013). "Josef Sachs, 1872-1949, köpman, VD i No...". digitaltmuseum.se (in Swedish). Retrieved July 5, 2014.
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