{{Short description|Danish businessman (1895–1975)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use British English|date=April 2018}} {{Infobox person | name = Kjeld Ammentorp | birth_place = Frederiksberg in Denmark | birth_date = 10 November 1895 | death_date = 23 October 1975 | death_place = Gentofte | education = | occupation = Founder of RMC Group | alma_mater = | notable_works = }}
'''Kjeld Anker Ammentorp''' (10 November 1895 – 23 October 1975) was the founder of RMC Group, one of the United Kingdom's largest concrete businesses.
==Career== Born in Frederiksberg in Denmark, Kjeld Ammentorp moved to the United Kingdom in 1919.<ref name=kjeld>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ammentorp.org/genealogy/ps01/ps01_050.htm |title=Ammentorp Genealogy |access-date=19 July 2009 |archive-date=3 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110903230902/http://www.ammentorp.org/genealogy/ps01/ps01_050.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> A civil engineer by training, Ammentorp took advantage of the invention of self-agitating cement trucks in the 1920s.<ref name=kjeld/> He built his first plant in 1930 at Bedfont in London, bought cement mixers from Denmark and expanded his business into one of the largest in the United Kingdom.<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/2895898/Ready-mixed-fortunes.html Ready Mixed Fortunes] Daily Telegraph, 28 September 2004</ref>
In 1952 he sold his company to Sam Stirling who had developed a similar business in Australia.<ref name=kjeld/> Ammentorp remained on the board of the company until 1958 but retired to Denmark in 1961.<ref name=kjeld/>
He died in 1975 at Gentofte and is buried in Frederiksberg.<ref>[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~eschricht/esch/d0004/g0000004.html#I6904 Kjeld Ammentorp at Ancestry.com]</ref>
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==External links== * [https://www.geni.com/people/Kjeld-Oluf-Ammentorp/6000000013115760213 Kjeld Ammentorp] at geni.com
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