- Category:
- Richest Business › Richest Billionaires
- Net Worth:
- $8.6 Billion
What is Niels Peter Louis-Hansen's Net Worth?
Niels Peter Louis-Hansen is the deputy chairman and the largest shareholder of Coloplast who has a net worth of $8.6 billion. Louis-Hansen currently owns a 21% stake of the Danish health care company, which is a provider of medical devices and services in the fields of colostomy, continence and urology. His late father, Aage Louis-Hansen, built up the business back in 1957, and then in 1983, he decided to take it public. The shares of the public company did well in 2012, making his fortune grow.
Owning the most of the shares of the company that produces colostomy bags, catheters, medical implant and dressings for wounds, Louis-Hansen became on of the riches people in his country. As of March 2013, Forbes ranked him as the 613th billionaire in the world and the 4th richest person in Denmark. In addition to Coloplast, Louis-Hansen also manages a foundation, which funds cultural and scientific initiatives and is named after his late parents. As for his private life, he is married and has one child.
