Ole A. Stang took an economist education in the United States. He took over the family property Maarud in
Sør-Odal Municipality in 1960, which had been bought by his grandfather in 1911. He has been credited with saving the family business from economic failure, and refined it into the modern snack company
Maarud. Production facilities for
potato chips and
dessert cheese were erected at the family farm. He sold the industrial part of the family business to
Freia Marabou in 1983, and passed on the farm itself to his son Thomas Stang in 1985. He was decorated with the
King's Medal of Merit in 1997. He died of cancer in November 1998 ==References==