Metro

"Jan Stenbeck inherited a traditional steel and forestry company and transformed it into a modern corporate group in media and telecommunications (Tele 2, ivz, Metro) during the last decades of the 20th century. This required great visions, a lot of creativity and real ruthlessness. Jan Stenbeck was a leader who inspired fiery devotion and admiration in some, and a deep antipathy in others."

"In Munich, Stavros Kostantinidis schedules appointments for the Austrian concrete block. An influential lawyer, not least because of his wife. Saskia Greipl-Kostantinidis is the daughter of the deceased, long-standing president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Munich and Upper Bavaria. Erich Greipl was part of the management of Metro, later he sat on its supervisory board as well as on the controlling committee of Kaufhof. When the Greipl-Kostantinidis family invites, such as to the wife’s 50th birthday, the Munich kissing-kissing society appears. But above all, people of weight and importance come, from the president of the state parliament, Ilse Aigner, to the Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder. René was occasionally invited to dinner by the Prime Minister, then he dined with Söder at the table, an ex-Signa manager recounts."

"[5](private://read/01jrsfvkjy84rkprtbz9amfvj8/#rw-ref-note-477346-006497775-5). *Metro*, December 1986; also in B Jesson, *To Build a Nation,* Auckland: Penguin, 2005, p. 190."

"[6](private://read/01jrsfvkjy84rkprtbz9amfvj8/#rw-ref-note-477273-050103421-6). See also Tom Hyde, ‘How They Sold Telecom’, *Metro*, September 1991; Sheppard, *Broken Circle,* p. 207."