As a former employé at Bestseller and having contact to most of the family Povlsen several times, all i can say that they have my deepest respect. Completly down to earth and friendly. I know of more stories on this family, but out of respect i'll keep it to myself. Working at the headquarter of Bestseller was a great experience for me. The working spirit is just fantastic, and to have on your resume that you worked at Bestseller is a plus. I loved every moment at Bestseller.
Yes, Povlsen is going to rebuild Hadrians wall, call is "Danevirke" after the original wall in northern Germany, and declare Scotland the subject of "Danelaw" and part of the Kingdom of Denmark. Now the Scots get to be part of the EU again. Long live King Canu'ehhhm... Povlsen the Great! I can hear the rumble of angry voices already!
There was an amusing piece in a TV show following Police in the Highlands a couple of years ago. A couple of young cops pulled over an unassuming VW SUV for speeding through a village. Turned out the driver was Povlsen out and about on his own. He politely accepted the ticket and went on his way. No doubt a good story back at the station. Occurred to me you wouldn’t find a super rich American, Indian or Gulf state bigwig travelling without security or a chauffeur.
Denmark is such a small country with such few people, and still they have some of the really big names like Maersk, Carlsberg, Grundfos, Bestseller, and Lego.
Didn't hear of Povlsen, I have the same ambitions just like him. Create a fortune to apply towards philanthropic work. I had lost a wife due to cancer, and our ambition to start a family died with her. Since I have no children, my focus is on my nieces and nephew. And on saving homes from foreclosure for working, and middle class families. Not purchasing, paying off the mortgage and leaving the property to the families.
Very sorry for your loss. My own life has it's tragedies. My focus is on my 3 nieces and nephew as well. And my meaning in life is from my volunteer work from the heart. I heard someone prominent asked the question if he now felt happy from all his achievements in helping others. With tears in his eyes, he said he had found, not happiness, but something better, deeper: meaning.
I don't know him personally but if he has invested in Scotland then I can only admire and congratulate him. Like many before him, we need private individuals with philanthropic ideas to support dying rural communities. The UK and Scottish Governments have basically turned a blind eye to our rural economy and our traditional way of life. We should commend people like Anders. I admire his re-planting ethos unlike the previous Forestry Commission now Forest and land Scotland, who have systematically decimated Scotland's Forest cover and fauna. This quango has not been brought to task for the environmental impact and devastation its causing. Complete hipocracy of the Scottish governments climate change policy for us mere mortals.
Sometimes during nightshift, I have a lot of time doing nothing. Sounds great but can be deadly boring. Until I found this channel. Shifts just fly by now and I learn so much. This channel is absolutely brilliant !!
An extremely sad and tragic story..surely no walls can cushion anyone from pains heartbreaks and tragedies..Nonetheless, a couple full of grace and virtue,and business foresight and genius...God bless them and comfort them as their business empire keeps flourishing as their conservation ambitions
Deeply admire his business acumen and digital foresight and timing - but even more deeply inspired by the way he and his wife has handled such a personal tragedy. I have no problem with wealthy people as such but there's a hell of a difference between people showcasing decadence vs people actually infusing their business with environmental and philanthropic goals! From what I've heard he's a good bloke - and that's about it!
He's got a outstanding collection of Aston Martins. I spoke to a salesman at Tom Hartley who supplies them to him. He's had them custom made with bespoke features. He had the shooting brake model cost 1 million pounds, before options before it was sold to the public
yet he wants to be so green that he feels guilty making blue jeans. what a double talker he is. he should enjoy his cars and planes and stop pretending to be mr green
Being a Dane I do know of Povlsen. He is not super famous in Danmark, but in the business-community most know of him. Another very interesting Danish family is the Møller-Maersk who owns and operates the largest shipping company globally: MAERSK LINE. MAERSK is more than 100 years old, and is connected all over the would. One MAERSK company, MAERSK Tankers, transports the vast majority of fuel and energy for the US navy, airforce and army, by operating a global supply-organisation securing fuel/energy for the US DOD globally. One more…the owner of LEGO is also Danish: The Kirk family! And, and, and … :)
After all one of the Greatest Kings in Northern History was Danish King: Knud 2end (Canute, "The Great"), who ruled over Denmark, by then also a large part of the inhabitable part of Sweden, Norway, Northern part of Germany and most of England, except "The Danelaw" area! Now we are Buying it all back, also building a new 17 km Tunnel below the Water to former Danish Germany!
KNOWING HOW TO WALK THE FINE LINE OF WEALTH AND FRUGALITY !!!! HE LEARNED A VALUEABLE LESSON EARLY ON !!!!! NOW ON AUTO PILOT AND DOING WELL!!! THANK YOU KINDLY FOR THE VIDEO AND INSIGHT !!! GATSBY
Respekt to him and his family but it was indeed his Father whom startede the business and Anders succesfully runs it now. Still humble and successful business developer from western Jutland, there are quite a few of these under radar wealthy people in that region of Denmark
One formative anecdote missing here is that when he was young he went on a business trip with his father to India local gangsters tried to kidnap him, but mistook him and grabbed another young family friend instead who was I believe later freed by India SWAT team this combined with another attempted kidnapping by a former disgruntled employee who had broken into their family home while they slept is supposedly the explanation why the whole family for many years not only took on private security but also became notoriously shy about coming out into the media and why so very few pictures exists of himself and the family - notice how almost all the pics of him in this video are press release photos from his recent later years. Also he is a nice humble guy who also actively cultivates this image and atleast used to regularly go to the canteen and stand in line with everyone else …
You didn’t mention they had another baby after the tragedy. Probably did not want to leave their surviving daughter as an only child after being one of four.
I've heard of the company, Bestseller. But I hadn't heard of the family that owns it. It sounds to me like they wish to be known more for their do-gooder deeds than for their business acumen. I do wonder why Scotland. There are so many other regions that could do with that kind of environmental investment than that.
Why Scotland. Easy. He is Danish. (And in case you forgot, the relations between Scotland and Denmark go back more than 1.000 years.). Not only Danish, but from Western Jutland - where I also grew up. The dialects have a lot of similarities -
They seems to love the landscape. Denmark is pretty flat. And in Scotland it has been quite easy in recent times to be able to buy up huge tracts of land from incompetent old monied families whose heirs have barely ever left London and have finally realised they aren’t prepared to manage them.
I live on NE Scotland, 20 years of that on the edge of the Cairngorms National park. Polvsen is doing this the right way, it is not up to Polvsen to change Scottish land ownership and reform it, that is the job of government. However, he has gone about things the right way and best way he can with being sympathetic to those in the local area. He will clearly be involved with Cairngorms connect and other rewilding groups. Paul Lister from the IMF business has done what Polvsen is doing already, except Paul wants to fence his property off and introduce predators, which is more controversial. Both these land owners have the right idea though and more people of wealth like them are required for change to happen. Parcelling land off to local land ownership may be worse, the first thing the locals will do is dump even more sheep and increase deer for shooting because this appears to be the only revenue avenue for them, this will cause untold damage and is partly the cause of the degredation. A lot of local groups can and do great environmental work, a woodland restoration group in the borders are a great example of that. But my experience of the Highlands is a very Victorian tweedy mindset and mentality, especially the game keeper shooting set. These are the people that Cairngorms Connect, Trees for life, Polvsen and Lister will be up against. These guys have made a living for generations serving large shooting estates in the Victorian land management style of keeping deer and grouse high and everything else down. Other Scottish eatates do a good job with land management like Glen Tannar, others have terrible land management with absent land owners.
Sooner or later, British inheritance taxes will take its toll on his property empire, but then again I would expect that he has it properly set up in a variety of trusts to escape those taxes.
Would it be weird to say that I live just around the corner of him, Denmark is a small country and majority of people in Denmark knows him. Almost everyone in Denmark respects him too!!
It is indeed amazing that the business model is based on having manufacturing in Asian countries where you pay a worker a few dollars per day resulting in a production cost of a T shirt to 50 cents which can be sold for 20-30 dollars in Povlsen' s shops. Same as H&M and others. If workers would be paid reasonable there would be no money for Scottish castles!!!
Then his business would have closed like so many others. Would that suit your self righteous virtue signalling better? His business closed & staff all unemployed? Would you prefer the estates still degraded & the community projects to never have begun?
There would be plenty of money for scottish castles, even if the poor asian workershould have a decent wage. The profit may drop from 48 dollars to 45 dollars, but I’m sure that Povlsen wouldn’t go hungry to bed. Even if it wouldn’t do any damage.
Danes call them windmills, not wind turbines, and see them as harbingers of the green energy revolution that will help transition us away from oligarch oil dependency.
COMMENT: Have you heard of Anders Povlsen before - or have an opinion on his intense life story and business practices?
Being a Dane, of course :)
As a Dane, there is really no avoiding it unless you live under a rock.
Offcourse
As a former employé at Bestseller and having contact to most of the family Povlsen several times, all i can say that they have my deepest respect. Completly down to earth and friendly.
I know of more stories on this family, but out of respect i'll keep it to myself.
Working at the headquarter of Bestseller was a great experience for me. The working spirit is just fantastic, and to have on your resume that you worked at Bestseller is a plus.
I loved every moment at Bestseller.
Thanks for sharing your story - wow!
I knew about them after Easter Sunday bombin
The re-emergence of “Danelaw” in the UK.. 😂
Maybe it would be good for you😉, after all, a lot of you are Descendants from Skandinavia. Regards from Denmark.
Yes, Povlsen is going to rebuild Hadrians wall, call is "Danevirke" after the original wall in northern Germany, and declare Scotland the subject of "Danelaw" and part of the Kingdom of Denmark.
Now the Scots get to be part of the EU again.
Long live King Canu'ehhhm... Povlsen the Great!
I can hear the rumble of angry voices already!
There was an amusing piece in a TV show following Police in the Highlands a couple of years ago. A couple of young cops pulled over an unassuming VW SUV for speeding through a village. Turned out the driver was Povlsen out and about on his own. He politely accepted the ticket and went on his way. No doubt a good story back at the station. Occurred to me you wouldn’t find a super rich American, Indian or Gulf state bigwig travelling without security or a chauffeur.
Denmark is such a small country with such few people, and still they have some of the really big names like Maersk, Carlsberg, Grundfos, Bestseller, and Lego.
U forgot one of the most imporant ones. Novo Nordisk. 17th biggest company in the world.
And the biggest Novo Nordisk
Novo Nordisk's market value is bigger than 1 year of the entire Danish economy!
Novo Nordisk 🟦
DSV
If he's willing to put his money into making Scotland even more spectacular, well I take my hat off to him, top bloke.
Didn't hear of Povlsen, I have the same ambitions just like him. Create a fortune to apply towards philanthropic work. I had lost a wife due to cancer, and our ambition to start a family died with her. Since I have no children, my focus is on my nieces and nephew. And on saving homes from foreclosure for working, and middle class families. Not purchasing, paying off the mortgage and leaving the property to the families.
Very sorry for your loss. My own life has it's tragedies. My focus is on my 3 nieces and nephew as well. And my meaning in life is from my volunteer work from the heart. I heard someone prominent asked the question if he now felt happy from all his achievements in helping others. With tears in his eyes, he said he had found, not happiness, but something better, deeper: meaning.
He lost 3 kids in 2020 in Indian
Hahaa
Sri Lanka @@lennartjessen4864
Good people should have many kid’s.
To many lazy and weak people have to many kids.
Don’t give up on a family of your own. 🤲🏽
All of the money in the world cannot ease the pain of some loses...
I don't know him personally but if he has invested in Scotland then I can only admire and congratulate him. Like many before him, we need private individuals with philanthropic ideas to support dying rural communities. The UK and Scottish Governments have basically turned a blind eye to our rural economy and our traditional way of life. We should commend people like Anders. I admire his re-planting ethos unlike the previous Forestry Commission now Forest and land Scotland, who have systematically decimated Scotland's Forest cover and fauna. This quango has not been brought to task for the environmental impact and devastation its causing. Complete hipocracy of the Scottish governments climate change policy for us mere mortals.
Sometimes during nightshift, I have a lot of time doing nothing. Sounds great but can be deadly boring. Until I found this channel. Shifts just fly by now and I learn so much. This channel is absolutely brilliant !!
Thank you so much! Glad to hear you enjoy our work and can pass the time with us :)
An extremely sad and tragic story..surely no walls can cushion anyone from pains heartbreaks and tragedies..Nonetheless, a couple full of grace and virtue,and business foresight and genius...God bless them and comfort them as their business empire keeps flourishing as their conservation ambitions
Well said
I worked for him years back.. hardcore and skilled businessman.
He lost his children to a terror attack.
what really? which one?
ah looked it up nvm
Deeply admire his business acumen and digital foresight and timing - but even more deeply inspired by the way he and his wife has handled such a personal tragedy. I have no problem with wealthy people as such but there's a hell of a difference between people showcasing decadence vs people actually infusing their business with environmental and philanthropic goals! From what I've heard he's a good bloke - and that's about it!
He's got a outstanding collection of Aston Martins. I spoke to a salesman at Tom Hartley who supplies them to him. He's had them custom made with bespoke features.
He had the shooting brake model cost 1 million pounds, before options before it was sold to the public
yet he wants to be so green that he feels guilty making blue jeans. what a double talker he is. he should enjoy his cars and planes and stop pretending to be mr green
Being a Dane I do know of Povlsen. He is not super famous in Danmark, but in the business-community most know of him.
Another very interesting Danish family is the Møller-Maersk who owns and operates the largest shipping company globally: MAERSK LINE. MAERSK is more than 100 years old, and is connected all over the would. One MAERSK company, MAERSK Tankers, transports the vast majority of fuel and energy for the US navy, airforce and army, by operating a global supply-organisation securing fuel/energy for the US DOD globally.
One more…the owner of LEGO is also Danish: The Kirk family!
And, and, and … :)
and, and sadly also individuals who like to brag, hopefully not too many
This man is a true hero and a great human being 🙏💪🇩🇰💙
Interesting. I never heard of him. It's tragic to lose three children. 😔
* He lost two.
they lost 3 children. On March 11, 2023, Anne and Anders Holch Povlsen became the parents of two shapely twin girls
In 2020 they became parents to twin girls ,and in 2021 they got a son!
They lost 3 of 4 children, then later got twins and a son. So they have 3 daughters and a son again now, like they did before..
After all one of the Greatest Kings in Northern History was Danish King: Knud 2end (Canute, "The Great"), who ruled over Denmark, by then also a large part of the inhabitable part of Sweden, Norway, Northern part of Germany and most of England, except "The Danelaw" area! Now we are Buying it all back, also building a new 17 km Tunnel below the Water to former Danish Germany!
KNOWING HOW TO WALK THE FINE LINE OF WEALTH AND FRUGALITY !!!! HE LEARNED A VALUEABLE LESSON EARLY ON !!!!! NOW ON AUTO PILOT AND DOING WELL!!! THANK YOU KINDLY FOR THE VIDEO AND INSIGHT !!! GATSBY
Respekt to him and his family but it was indeed his Father whom startede the business and Anders succesfully runs it now.
Still humble and successful business developer from western Jutland, there are quite a few of these under radar wealthy people in that region of Denmark
They usually want to democratise the decision making but not the "paying for it" aspect, which rarely ends well for them.
And guess what, the family is deeply likeable, as well. There is such a thing as decent money.
have never heard of him but what a cool person he is indeed wow wow awesome person keep it up sir
The reason Kevin Magnussen was shown, is because Anders Poulsen financed his way into F1
Danish Invasion of UK ?? How positively Medieval!!
😂
No swords this time, danes nowadays are civilized and great at a god bargain.
Well done Povlsen - 🇩🇰
Yes i have heard of povlsen, im from denmark like him. He are doing the right, but are also a hard man to work under.
Trump "We should buy Greenland"
Meanwhile
Povlsen buys England.
😂
You mean Scotland?
the biggest danish land owner since king canute!
One formative anecdote missing here is that when he was young he went on a business trip with his father to India local gangsters tried to kidnap him, but mistook him and grabbed another young family friend instead who was I believe later freed by India SWAT team this combined with another attempted kidnapping by a former disgruntled employee who had broken into their family home while they slept is supposedly the explanation why the whole family for many years not only took on private security but also became notoriously shy about coming out into the media and why so very few pictures exists of himself and the family - notice how almost all the pics of him in this video are press release photos from his recent later years. Also he is a nice humble guy who also actively cultivates this image and atleast used to regularly go to the canteen and stand in line with everyone else …
Perhaps his plan is to reestablish the Danelagen.
You didn’t mention they had another baby after the tragedy. Probably did not want to leave their surviving daughter as an only child after being one of four.
They have 7 kids in total. They lost 3 and had twin girls and a boy after.
I've heard of the company, Bestseller. But I hadn't heard of the family that owns it.
It sounds to me like they wish to be known more for their do-gooder deeds than for their business acumen.
I do wonder why Scotland. There are so many other regions that could do with that kind of environmental investment than that.
Why Scotland. Easy. He is Danish. (And in case you forgot, the relations between Scotland and Denmark go back more than 1.000 years.). Not only Danish, but from Western Jutland - where I also grew up. The dialects have a lot of similarities -
They seems to love the landscape. Denmark is pretty flat. And in Scotland it has been quite easy in recent times to be able to buy up huge tracts of land from incompetent old monied families whose heirs have barely ever left London and have finally realised they aren’t prepared to manage them.
Because Scotland is the greatest country in the world. And the best kept secret, whoops I think I've just let the cat out the bag.
He just loves Scotland, he does a lot of hunting there 🙂
My suggestion would be that he would make the same kind of investment into restoring lost danish nature
I live on NE Scotland, 20 years of that on the edge of the Cairngorms National park. Polvsen is doing this the right way, it is not up to Polvsen to change Scottish land ownership and reform it, that is the job of government. However, he has gone about things the right way and best way he can with being sympathetic to those in the local area. He will clearly be involved with Cairngorms connect and other rewilding groups. Paul Lister from the IMF business has done what Polvsen is doing already, except Paul wants to fence his property off and introduce predators, which is more controversial. Both these land owners have the right idea though and more people of wealth like them are required for change to happen. Parcelling land off to local land ownership may be worse, the first thing the locals will do is dump even more sheep and increase deer for shooting because this appears to be the only revenue avenue for them, this will cause untold damage and is partly the cause of the degredation. A lot of local groups can and do great environmental work, a woodland restoration group in the borders are a great example of that. But my experience of the Highlands is a very Victorian tweedy mindset and mentality, especially the game keeper shooting set. These are the people that Cairngorms Connect, Trees for life, Polvsen and Lister will be up against. These guys have made a living for generations serving large shooting estates in the Victorian land management style of keeping deer and grouse high and everything else down. Other Scottish eatates do a good job with land management like Glen Tannar, others have terrible land management with absent land owners.
Sooner or later, British inheritance taxes will take its toll on his property empire, but then again I would expect that he has it properly set up in a variety of trusts to escape those taxes.
Most of the land is woodland, you don't pay taxes on woodland I believe.
He's the 312th richest in the world. Unlikely to run out of money soonish.
he is a legend.. strong legend
One day my story Will be told
can you make a video about Swedens Stefan Persson the heir to H&M
I'm Danish and know well Povlsen, only the Royal House in England 🏴 owns more land than him.
The Vikings are back in UK
Actually they never left. 😉
Would it be weird to say that I live just around the corner of him, Denmark is a small country and majority of people in Denmark knows him. Almost everyone in Denmark respects him too!!
Amazing!
It is indeed amazing that the business model is based on having manufacturing in Asian countries where you pay a worker a few dollars per day resulting in a production cost of a T shirt to 50 cents which can be sold for 20-30 dollars in Povlsen' s shops. Same as H&M and others. If workers would be paid reasonable there would be no money for Scottish castles!!!
Then his business would have closed like so many others. Would that suit your self righteous virtue signalling better? His business closed & staff all unemployed? Would you prefer the estates still degraded & the community projects to never have begun?
There would be plenty of money for scottish castles, even if the poor asian workershould have a decent wage. The profit may drop from 48 dollars to 45 dollars, but I’m sure that Povlsen wouldn’t go hungry to bed. Even if it wouldn’t do any damage.
Povlsen in fact has an ethical approach to working condition and environment altogether - you cannot box Bestseller with H&M in this regard
Neo feudalism with a green twist.
Would it be fair to say that Anders is totally against wind turbines on his newly acquired land.
I for one sincerely hope so 🤞🤞🤞
Danes call them windmills, not wind turbines, and see them as harbingers of the green energy revolution that will help transition us away from oligarch oil dependency.
Wind turbines wings has to be changed out every 10 year or so they are made out of pure poison to make them that strong
As a fellow Dane of course I know of Anders. Didn't know he was a supposed climate lunatic.
Don't be fooled: he is the Bill Gates of Denmark
my story will be told with three words: He lived here
went soo well... until u called it soccer...
Actually a UK word
@@ylette Do you mean English? United Kingdom is not a language.
@@kaspernielsen9149The english word soccer originated from the UK.
Maybe Denmak is blessed somehow by the reall owner God merry Xmas
God who...?
Im from Brande🤩🤩
The name is not povelsen its Paulsen
No Chinese brands competition in the 90s? Only selling clothes?
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