Bent Jensen: is there a family office?

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The Danish billionaire Jensen is the owner and CEO of Linak, a linear actuator manufacturing company. His father and Bent founded the company and took over the running of the company in 1976. Forbes estimate Jansen’s net worth to be in the region of $1.2bn as of August 2022. In this article, we investigate if Bert Jensen owns a Scandinavian family office.

Jensen family operates family office through Linak

 As previously mentioned, Bert took over the family business Linak from his father who founded the company in 1907, originally focusing on producing pulleys, grinding mills, and forges. In 1984, Bert rebranded the company to Linak and diverted their focus to the manufacturing of linear actuators. The Jensen family office Linak has been family owned for over 100 years and Bert has implemented plans for it to remain in the family for years to come. The Danish family office has a workforce in the excess of 2,400 employees and has established production sites in Denmark, China, USA, Slovakia, and Thailand.

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