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Kyösti Kakkonen

Finnish businessman

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ6452990 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kyösti Kakkonen (born December 7, 1956, in Kiihtelysvaara) is a Finnish businessman and millionaire. He is the co-founder and chief executive officer of the Finnish discount retail chain Tokmanni. Kakkonen is also an art collector.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Kyösti Kakkonen” as finnish businessman. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1956—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1956-12-07. The account is most persuasive where Kyösti, Kakkonen and Finnish can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as finnish businessman. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6452990. VIAF identifies the subject as 313404743. The Library of Congress control number is no2015158607. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1956.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kyösti Kakkonen” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.