NRI PROFILE
Career
Bicky Chakraborty owns 18 hotels
and it is given a brand as the ‘Elite
Hotels’. He is doing well in the Hotel
industry in Sweden and is one of the
famous hotel kings in Sweden
This brand takes care of 25 English
pubs and it is growing well in Sweden
with a turn over of over $250 million.
He partly owns two hotels named
Riche and Sturehof in Stockholm.
These restaurants are quite classy
and they do well.
While he was studying he rented out
the Dorm Domus, these were empty
places at the student dormitories.
These places were given as hotels at
discounted prices for all the people
staying in Stockholm.
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Later on, he took over the properties
and they became a part of his hotel
empire. Besides, he purchased the
rundown city hotel and worked on
rehabilitating it.
Personal Life
Chakraborty is from Kolkata, he moved
to Sweden in 1966 to study Sociology
at the University of Stockholm. Besides
work, he is a Sports Enthusiast.
Chakraborty married Ylva Lindberg,
the sister of Princess Marianne
Bernadotte. He has a daughter who
is settled in North Carolina and she
loves Sports just like her dad. She is
a sports sponsorer and sponsored for
the Swedish Davis Cup and Federation
Cup teams in tennis.
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