Gröna Lund is an amusement park in Stockholm, Sweden. Located on the seaward side of Djurgården Island, it is relatively small compared to other amusement parks, mainly because of its central location, which limits expansion. The 3.8 ha (9.4 acres) musement park has over 30 attractions and is a popular venue for concerts in the summer. It was founded in 1883 […]
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ABBA The Museum is a Swedish interactive exhibition about the pop band ABBA that opened in Stockholm, Sweden in May 2013. ABBA‘s collected works are showcased in a contemporary, interactive setting at Djurgården, Stockholm. ABBA The Museum is, despite its name, not a museum because it has no collections, does not conduct research and is for-profit. It is not a member of either Swedish ICOM or Riksförbundet Sveriges museer. Exhibits Exhibits […]
ILSD Sweden AB is a limited company that will conduct training, research, consultations in laser-assisted dentistry, production and sales of educational materials in laser-assisted dentistry, sales of dental products. Treatments Laser treatment: Periodontics Laser treatment: Endodontics Laser treatment: Surgery Laser treatment: Prosthodontics Laser treatment: Pediatric Laser treatment: Cariology/preparation Laser treatment: Implantology
Sweden Dental AB is a limited company that will conduct dental technical operations and operations compatible therewith. Products Fixed prosthetics Implant Detachable prosthetics
Folktandvården Stockholms län AB är ett av Europas ledande tandvårdsföretag. På våra 80 kliniker för allmäntandvård, medicinsk tandvård och specialisttandvård tar vi emot över en miljon patientbesök varje år. Vi är ett landstingsägt bolag och har cirka 2 000 medarbetare. Varje dag utför vi professionell tandvård med hög kvalitet. Genom förebyggande insatser minskar vi behovet […]
On behalf of the regional directors, there is a national collaboration group (RCC in collaboration), with the managers of the six regional cancer centers. SKR is a supporting party and is responsible for the chairmanship of the group. The collaboration group works to implement the intentions of the cancer strategy, among other things by creating […]
Aleris Clinical Physiology Hötorget (formerly Stockholm Heart Center) performs examinations of the heart, vessels and lungs. Please note that a referral is required to get to the clinic. Answers to the examination are given by the referring doctor. He can also assist with journal copies of examinations made with us. Aleris Clinical Physiology Hötorget is part of […]
Sophiahemmet is a private hospital at Norra Djurgården in Stockholm, Sweden. The private hospital for personal and professional care. Our more than hundred-year-old tradition is the basis for the development of modern healthcare in a warm and safe nursing environment.
Södersjukhuset (Sös) is one of the largest hospitals in Stockholm, Sweden. Södersjukhuset has the largest emergency department in Scandinavia. With more than 4,000 employees, Södersjukhuset is the third largest employer in Stockholm. The hospital has an underground complex measuring 4,500 square meters (48,500 square feet) called DEMC (Disaster Emergency Center), which was completed and inaugurated on 25 November 1994. In peacetime the complex […]
Saint Göran Hospital is a hospital in Stockholm, Sweden. It is located on Kungsholmen, a small island in the lake Mälaren in the city center. St. Göran is one of Sweden’s oldest hospitals. It was mentioned in letters from the 13th century. With Karolinska Hospital (Karolinska sjukhuset) it is Stockholms’s main hospital and a primary trauma center. Its name refers to Saint George (Sankt Göran in […]
The Karolinska University Hospital is a teaching hospital affiliated with Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, with two major sites in the municipalities of Solna and Huddinge. The hospital network is the second largest in Sweden, after Sahlgrenska University Hospital. The present day Karolinska University Hospital is the result of a 2004 merger between the former Huddinge University Hospital (Huddinge universitetssjukhus) in Huddinge, south of Stockholm, and the Karolinska Hospital […]
Riddarholmen Church is the church of a former medieval abbey in Stockholm, Sweden. The church serves as the final resting place of most Swedish monarchs. Riddarholmen Church is located on the island of Riddarholmen, close to the Royal Palace in Stockholm, Sweden. The congregation was dissolved in 1807 and today the church is used only for burial and commemorative purposes. Swedish […]
The Museum of Medieval Stockholm centrally located north of the Royal Palace, was constructed around old monuments excavated in an extensive archaeological dig (dubbed Riksgropen, “National/State Pit”) in the late 1970s. Part of Stockholm‘s city wall, dating from the early 16th century, was also found. In order to make the finds accessible to the general public, a planned subterranean garage had […]
The Nordic Museum is a museum located on Djurgården, an island in central Stockholm, Sweden, dedicated to the cultural history and ethnography of Sweden from the early modern period (in Swedish history, it is said to begin in 1520) to the contemporary period. The museum was founded in the late 19th century by Artur Hazelius, who also founded the open-air museum Skansen. For long part of the museum, the institutions were made independent […]
Fotografiska is a centre for contemporary photography in the Södermalm district of Stockholm, Sweden that opened on 21 May 2010. Fotografiska was founded by the brothers Jan and Per Broman. It is not a museum because it has no collections, does not conduct research and is for-profit. It is not a member of either Swedish ICOM or Riksförbundet Sveriges museer. Details Fotografiska has 5500 m2 of exhibition spaces, an […]
The Nobel Prize Museum is located in the former Stock Exchange Building (Börshuset) on the north side of the square Stortorget in Gamla Stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden. (The Swedish Academy and the Nobel Library are also in the same building.) The Nobel Prize Museum showcases information about the Nobel Prize and Nobel prizewinners, as well as information about the founder of the prize, Alfred Nobel (1833–1896). The museum’s permanent […]
The Stockholm City Hall is the building of the Municipal Council for the City of Stockholm in Sweden. It stands on the eastern tip of Kungsholmen island, next to Riddarfjärden’s northern shore and facing the islands of Riddarholmen and Södermalm. It houses offices and conference rooms as well as ceremonial halls, and the luxury restaurant Stadshuskällaren. It is the venue of the Nobel Prize banquet and is one of Stockholm’s major tourist attractions. […]
Djurgården is an island in central Stockholm, Sweden. Djurgården is home to historical buildings and monuments, museums, galleries, the amusement park Gröna Lund, the open-air museum Skansen, the small residential area Djurgårdsstaden, yacht harbours, and extensive stretches of forest and meadows. It is one of the Stockholmers’ favorite recreation areas and tourist destinations alike, attracting over 10 million visitors per year, […]
Stockholm Palace or the Royal Palace is the official residence and major royal palace of the Swedish monarch (the actual residence of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia is at Drottningholm Palace). Stockholm Palace is on Stadsholmen, in Gamla stan in the capital, Stockholm. It neighbours the Riksdag building. The offices of the King, the other members of the Swedish Royal Family, and the Royal Court of Sweden are here. The palace is used for representative purposes […]
Skansen is the first open-air museum and zoo in Sweden and is located on the island Djurgården in Stockholm, Sweden. It was opened on 11 October 1891 by Artur Hazelius (1833–1901) to show the way of life in the different parts of Sweden before the industrial era. The name Skansen has also been used as a noun to refer to other open-air museums and collections of historic structures, particularly […]
The Vasa Museum is a maritime museum in Stockholm, Sweden. Located on the island of Djurgården, the museum displays the only almost fully intact 17th century ship that has ever been salvaged, the 64-gun warship Vasa that sank on her maiden voyage in 1628. History From the beginning of 1961 to 1983, Vasa was housed in a temporary structure called Wasavarvet (“The Vasa Shipyard”) where she was […]
The School of Dance and Circus is a Swedish institution offering higher education in the fields of dance education, folk dance, dance, dance therapy, historical dance, choreography and contemporary circus. Circus programme Attendance at the circus school is awarded on the basis of live auditions held in Stockholm, with tests of physical strength, flexibility, endurance, and theatrical skill. In addition, each applicant is required to give a demonstration of […]
The International School of the Stockholm Region is a school in Stockholm, Sweden. It is located on Bohusgatan in Skanstull on the island of Södermalm. The school offers the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, and is an IB World School and a UN School. The school was founded in 1999 by Stockholm Municipality as IB School South (IB skolan Syd in Swedish), and was renamed in 2012 to its […]
Sankta Birgittas folkhögskola is a folk high school located across the road from Kungsträdgården in central Stockholm with a branch in Södertälje. It is run by the Foundation for Sweden’s Catholic Folk High Schools (sw. Stiftelsen Sveriges Katolska folkhögskola) which also runs Sankta Elisabets folkhögskola in Gothenburg and Sankta Marias folkhögskola in Malmö. Education General education course The school offers a 3-year general education course and […]
Södra Latin, officially Södra Latins gymnasium, (“Southern Latin” in Swedish) is an upper secondary school (“gymnasieskola“), situated in Södermalm, Stockholm. The current school building was inaugurated in 1891. Education In modern times, Södra Latin is known for its high-level schooling in the arts. Between 1976 and 1978 the establishment successively replaced the music department of Statens normalskola in Östermalm, becoming consummate in […]
Stockholm International School (SIS) provides an international education in English to around 700 students aged 3–18 in the heart of Sweden’s capital. Offering the International Primary Curriculum and International Baccalaureate Middle Years and Diploma Programmes, the school year runs mid-August to mid-June and has a minimal instructional period of 178 days, divided into two semesters. It is situated next to St. […]
Östra Real (officially Östra Reals gymnasium) is an upper secondary school in Östermalm, Stockholm, Sweden. The school can trace its ancestry to the 1600s, and has changed name several times throughout its existence. Its current building was completed in 1910, and it has remained there ever since. Extracurricular activities Östra Real has an established tradition with many active student organisations, and is […]
Internationella Engelska Gymnasiet Södermalm, also known as the International English Gymnasium Södermalm, is a secondary school located in Södermalm, Sweden. The institute offers four Swedish national programmes and the International Baccalaureate (IB) programme, which qualify students for university studies in Sweden or abroad. Most courses (except Swedish, Civics A, Law and Modern Languages) are taught in English language. Most of the teachers are […]
Enskilda Gymnasiet (EG) is an independent secondary school from the 10th-12th grade and school from the 7th-9th grade, founded in 1913. Enskilda Gymnasiet is located at Tegnérlunden 5 [sv] near Tegnérlunden, in central Stockholm, Sweden. Based on standardised national tests, the school usually ranks amongst the highest in Sweden. The school has about 500 students in total. For upper secondary school students, Enskilda Gymnasiet offers the Social […]
Poppius journalistskola is Scandinavia’s oldest journalism school. The school was founded in 1947 in Stockholm by the journalist and editor Set Poppius who had a long working life of experience in the field of journalism. The school was founded during a period when the earlier volunteer system had stopped working and before state funded journalism schools started in the […]
Norra Real is an upper-secondary school, located on Roslagsgatan 1 in Stockholm, Sweden. The school is the oldest upper-secondary school in Stockholm and one of the most difficult to get accepted into.
Kungsholmens gymnasium is an upper secondary school located on the island of Kungsholmen in Stockholm, Sweden. The school is divided into a Swedish Section, an English-speaking International Section, and a Music Section which uses the name Stockholms Musikgymnasium. Kungsholmens Gymnasium is a popular school in Stockholm with high application rates and some of the highest minimum admission requirements within the Stockholm County. Study programmes Kungsholmens […]
Franska Skolan is a private school located in Stockholm, Sweden. It was founded in 1862. 1968 was the first year with boys in the school, who came from Carlsson’s school because of lack of space there and sent a few students without telling that they were boys. Since 1973, both girls and boys attend the school. 40% of school students today are boys. […]
Adolf Fredrik’s Music School is a general municipal junior high school in Stockholm, Sweden with a focus on choral music, and highly competitive admission based on audition in singing and musical ability. The school has two campuses and three youth choirs of high international standard. Many professional musicians are alumni. This article is about the music school and its associated youth […]
Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm (EHS), formerly Theological University of Stockholm (THS), is a privately owned private university at Equmenia Church at Åkeshovsvägen 29 in Bromma in Stockholm , with educations in theology , religious studies and human rights . The university is located at Campus Bromma on Åkeshovsvägen 29 in Nockebyhov and shares the campus with Bromma folk high school . In 2018, the university changed its name to Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm, with two subdivisions: the University of Human Rights (HMR) and the […]
Sophiahemmet University is a Swedish institution for higher education associated with Sophiahemmet. In addition to a degree in nursing, the institution also offers programmes at advanced level, such as Specialist Nursing programmes, as well as Bachelor, Master and Diploma programmes. Sophiahemmet Högskola has approximately 450 students enrolled in the three-year nursing programme and a total of approximately 1500 students […]
The Stockholm School of Economics is a private business school located in city district Vasastaden in the central part of Stockholm, Sweden. SSE offers BSc, MSc and MBA programs, along with PhD- and Executive education programs. SSE’s Master program in Finance is ranked no.18 worldwide as of 2018. The Masters in Management program is ranked no. 7 worldwide by the Financial Times. QS ranks SSE no.26 among universities in the field of […]
The Stockholm University of the Arts is a public university college created 1 January 2014 by merging the School of Dance and Circus, the University College of Opera, and the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts. This is the result of the ministerial committee directive issued in 2012. The three institutions remained autonomous with regards to undergraduate studies, but the amalgamation intended […]
The Swedish Defence University is situated on Drottning Kristinas väg 37 in Östermalm, Stockholm City Centre, next to the campus of the Royal Institute of Technology. Programme The University trains and educates domestic and international military and civilian personnel. The University offers training for career and reserve officers of the Swedish Armed Forces. Graduates contribute, both nationally and internationally, to the […]
Konstfack, or University of Arts, Crafts and Design, is a university college for higher education in the area of art, crafts and design in Stockholm, Sweden. Education Following the standards of the Bologna process, Konstfack offers bachelor’s degree programmes (3 years, 180 ECTS credits, Bachelor of Fine Arts), and master’s degree programmes (2 years, 120 ECTS credits, Master of Fine Arts). There are also Art Education programmes (teacher programmes, […]
The Royal College of Music, Stockholm is the oldest institution of higher education in music in Sweden, founded in 1771 as the conservatory of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. The institution was made independent of the Academy in 1971 and is now a public authority directly under the Ministry of Education and Research. Vice-Chancellor from June 2019 […]
The Royal Institute of Art is an institution in Stockholm, Sweden for higher education in art, founded in 1735. The school was part of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, until 1978 when it was made independent. It is under the supervision of the Ministry of Education and Research. Training Program in free art Postmaster courses International exchange Research Postgraduate education Research project […]
KTH Royal Institute of Technology abbreviated KTH, is a publicresearch university in Stockholm, Sweden. KTH conducts research and education within engineering and technology, and is Sweden’s largest technical university. Currently, KTH consists of five schools with four campuses in and around Stockholm. KTH is the highest ranked technical university in Sweden. It is ranked top 100 in the world among all universities in the 2020 QS World […]
The Karolinska Institute is a research-led medical university in Solna within the Stockholm urban area of Sweden. The Karolinska Institute is Sweden’s third oldest medical school, after Uppsala University (founded in 1477) and Lund University (founded in 1666). It is one of Sweden’s largest centres for training and research, accounting for 30% of the medical training and more than 40% of all academic medical and life science […]
Stockholm University is a public university in Stockholm, Sweden, founded as a college in 1878, with university status since 1960. With over 33,000 students at four different faculties: law, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, it is one of the largest universities in Scandinavia. The institution is regarded as one of the top 100 universities in the world by the Academic Ranking of […]
Swedish Match AB is a Swedish company based in Stockholm that makes snus, moist snuff, and chewing tobacco (with its Red Man brand). These products are known as moist smokeless tobacco. The company also makes machine-made cigars, matches, and lighters and sells batteries, light bulbs and disposable razors. Swedish Match operates in 11 countries and has 6,270 employees (average 2019). The products are sold globally, with a majority of […]
FOREX Bank is a Swedish retailing bank, which is noted for specialising in currency exchange services. The company was started in 1927 providing currency exchange for travellers, at the main Stockholm Central train station. Legend says that it started by the owner of Gyllenspet’s Barber Shop at the station, when he discovered that most of his customers were tourists in need […]
Vattenfall is a Swedish multinational power company owned by the Government of Sweden. Beyond Sweden, the company generates power in Denmark, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. The company’s name is Swedish for “waterfall”, and is an abbreviation of its original name, Royal Waterfall Board (Kungliga Vattenfallstyrelsen). Distribution Vattenfall dominates the electrical distribution in 60 municipalities in Sweden. Other mayor grid companies include Ellevio (formerly […]
Spotify Technology S.A is a Luxembourg-based holding company who owns Spotify AB a Swedish audio streaming and media services provider, founded in 2006 by Daniel Ek. Spotify is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, with offices in 17 different countries around the world. It is one of the world’s largest music streaming service providers, with over 345 million monthly active users, including 155 million paying subscribers, as of December 2020. Spotify […]
Skanska AB is a multinationalconstruction and development company based in Sweden. Skanska is the fifth largest construction company in the world according to Construction Global magazine. Notable Skanska projects include renovation of the United Nations Headquarters, the World Trade Center Transportation Hub project, Moynihan Train Hall, 30 St Mary Axe, MetLife Stadium, Mater Dei Hospital, among others. Operations Skanska divides its operations into four business streams: Business […]
Securitas AB is a security services (security guarding and mobile patrolling), monitoring, consulting and investigation group, based in Stockholm, Sweden. The group has over 300,000 employees in 53 countries worldwide. Securitas AB is listed at Nasdaq OMX Stockholm, Large Cap segment. Securitas AB owns and operates the Swiss security company Protectas AG in Switzerland, where there already existed a security company called Securitas AG, part of the Swiss Securitas Group. It […]
Svenska Cellulosa AB (SCA, English: Swedish Cellulose Company) is a Swedishtimber, pulp and paper manufacturer with headquarters in Sundsvall. It has approximately 4,000 employees and a turnover of approximately SEK 15.4 billion (€1.6 billion). Its main products include many one-use paper products, publication papers, solid-wood products, pulp and forest-based biofuel. Products and brands Containerboard Publication papers: LWC paper, uncoated offset and newsprint Pulp: Star, Celeste […]
Peltarion is an AI software company with offices in Stockholm and London. Product The Peltarion Platform is a cloud-based operational AI platform that allows you to build and deploy your deep learning models. The service offers an end-to-end platform that lets you do everything from pre-processing your data to building models and putting them into production. All of this […]
Ovako AB is a European manufacturer of engineering steel for customers e.g. in the bearing, transportation and manufacturing industries. Since 2018, Ovako has been owned by Nippon Steel Corporation. The production is based on recycled scrap and includes steel in the form of bar, tube, ring and pre-components. Ovako is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of […]
Nynas AB is a Swedish manufacturer of specialty naphthenic oils and bitumen products. Founded in 1928 as a national oil company with a traditional range of products, the company today also supplies specialist products and niche markets. As well as sales offices all over the world, Nynas also has access to a global distribution network. This includes, among other things, three central storage […]
Neonode Inc (Nasdaq: NEON) is a publicly traded company, headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden and established in 2001. The company provides optical sensing solutions for touch, gesture control, and remote sensing. Neonode technology is currently deployed in more than 73 million products and the company holds more than 120 patents worldwide. Neonode’s customer base includes Fortune 500 […]
Loomis (formerly Loomis, Fargo & Co.) is a cash handling company. The modern company was formed in 1997 by the consolidation of two armoured security concerns, Wells Fargo Armored Service and Loomis Armored Inc. Their international network covers over 400 operating locations in the US and eleven western European countries. In the US, Loomis operates an electronically […]
Lantmännen is an agricultural cooperative and Northern Europe’s leader in agriculture, machinery, bioenergy and food products. Owned by 25,000 Swedish farmers, they have 10,000 employees, operations in over 20 countries and an annual turnover of SEK 45 billion (approximately EUR 4.5 billion). With grain at the heart of their operations, they refine arable land resources to make farming thrive. […]
L E Lundbergföretagen AB is an investment company controlled by the Swedish businessman Fredrik Lundberg and family. Operating companies Fastighets AB L E Lundberg – real estate Listed holdings Hufvudstaden AB – real estate (45.3% stake, 88.1% voting rights) Holmen AB – pulp and paper industry (28% stake, 52% voting rights) Cardo AB – industrial doors, logistics systems, water treatment systems, process equipment. […]
Saab Kockums AB is a shipyard in Malmö, Sweden, owned by the Swedish defence company Saab Group. While having a history of civil vessel construction, Kockums’ most renowned activity is the fabrication of military corvettes and submarines. Ships built by Kockums M/T Frans Suell MV Sovetskaya Latviya Visby-class of stealth corvettes Landsort-class mine countermeasures vessel Styrsö-class mine countermeasures vessel Näcken-class submarine Västergötland-class submarine Södermanland-class submarine […]
Kinnevik AB is a Swedish investment company that was founded in 1936 by the Stenbeck, Klingspor and von Horn families. Kinnevik is an active and long-term owner investing primarily in digital consumer businesses. Current CEO, Georgi Ganev, was appointed in 2018. Kinnevik holds significant stakes in about 30 companies and invest in Europe, with a focus on the Nordics, […]
Holmen AB is a Swedish company which bases its business in the forest industry and the pulp and paper industry. Holmen’s main products are paperboard for consumer packaging and graphical applications. Printing paper for magazines, supplements, direct mail, directories, books and newspapers. They also produce sawn timber for flooring, window components, furniture or construction. Products The business area Iggesund Paperboard produces paperboard for use in the premium packaging and graphics sectors. The […]
Hexagon AB is a global technology group headquartered in Sweden. The operation is focused on precision measuring technologies and is divided into three business areas: Geospatial Measuring (Surveying and GPS), Industrial Metrology (Hexagon Metrology) and Technologies. The company markets its products and services under more than 35 different brands worldwide. The Group employs about 18,000 people in 50 countries. […]
Svenska Handelsbanken AB is a Swedish bank providing universal banking services including traditional corporate transactions, investment banking and trading as well as consumer banking including life insurance. Handelsbanken is one of the major banks in Sweden with over 460 branches. Subsidiaries and branches Home markets: Sweden (more than 450 branches) United Kingdom (more than 200 branches) Denmark (more than 50 branches) Finland […]
Swedbank AB is a Nordic-Baltic banking group based in Stockholm, Sweden, offering retail banking, asset management, financial, and other services. Organisation Swedbank sign above an automated teller machine in Karlskrona.The Swedbank logo (1997—2006). FöreningsSparbanken was created in 1997 through a merger between Sparbanken and Föreningsbanken. The unusual corporate name and logo were compromises of the merger of two different corporate cultures. Swedbank has 7.25 million […]
Esselte is a manufacturer and marketer of office products and business supplies with subsidiaries in 25 countries and sales in over 120 countries. Esselte makes files, binders, folders, covers, staplers, letter trays and computer accessories under the Esselte, Leitz, Oxford, Pendaflex, Rapid and Xyron brands. Customers range from wholesalers and direct marketers to office superstores and mass retailers.
Electrolux AB is a Swedishmultinational home appliance manufacturer, headquartered in Stockholm. It is consistently ranked the world’s second largest appliance maker by units sold after Whirlpool. Notable products The Lux vacuum is the first product Electrolux sells. D, Electrolux’s first refrigerator, is an absorption model. Electrolux model 30 vacuum is unveiled. Assistent (Swedish for assistant), the company’s only wartime consumer product, is a mixer/food processor. W […]
EA Digital Illusions CE AB (DICE) is a Swedish video game developer based in Stockholm. Its releases include the Battlefield, Mirror’s Edge and Star Wars Battlefront series. Through their Frostbite Labs division, the company also develops the Frostbite game engine.
Diamyd Medical AB is dedicated to find a cure for type 1 diabetes: first, the autoimmune inflammation need to be down-regulated with a compound such as for example GABA; second, tolerance need to be induced to insulin producing beta cell auto-antigens such as for example GAD65; third, the beta cell mass need to be restored […]
Carnegie Investment Bank AB is a Swedish financial services group with activities in securities brokerage, investment banking and private banking. Founded in 1803, Carnegie is headquartered in Stockholm with offices across the Nordic region, as well as in London, New York, and Luxembourg. The company has market leading positions in equities research and brokerage, corporate finance advisory and private wealth management. Carnegie’s customers include institutional investors, corporates, financial institutions, private equity firms, governments and high-net-worth individuals. Organisation […]
Bonnier AB also the Bonnier Group, is a privately held Swedish media group of 175 companies operating in 15 countries. It is controlled by the Bonnier family. International operations In Denmark, operations include magazine publisher Bonnier Publications, which has subsidiaries in Norway, Finland and Sweden; business daily Dagbladet Børsen; film distributors SF Film and film producers SF Film Production. Finnish operations include book publishers Tammi and WSOY; plus magazines […]
Boliden AB is a Swedish mining and smelting company focusing on production of copper, zinc, lead, gold and silver. Following a series of acquisitions during the 1980s and 1990s the company acquired mining and smelting assets of the Finnish mining and smelting company Outokumpu in 2003. Outokumpu acquired the subsidiary Boliden Contech and Boliden’s copper and zinc divisions. As a consequence of the deal, Outokumpu ended up controlling 49 percent […]
BioGaia is a Swedish biotechnology company that develops, markets and sells a range of products with probiotics. The company owns several commercially important strains and a large number of different patents for commercial usage of Lactobacillus reuteri. BioGaia gut and immune health products contain L. reuteri Protectis (DSM 17938), one of the human L. reuteri strains. BioGaia Probiotics for oral health contain L. reuteri Prodentis, […]
Bindomatic AB is a company registered in Sweden and with head office in Stockholm. Bindomatic is the inventor of the Bindomatic binding system consisting of machines and supplies for office document binding. Today the company has around 100 employees in its locations in Belgium, Germany, Portugal, Sweden and United States. Current products Bindomatic produces a wide range of […]
Betsson AB is a Swedish company that offers a number of online gambling products, such as casino, poker, bingo, sports betting and scratch cards through more than 20 online gaming brands including Betsson, Betsafe and NordicBet. Products Betsson AB’s subsidiaries owns and operates a number of websites via its subsidiaries in Malta. In November 2017, Betsson signed a deal with Scout gaming to integrate its […]
Axfood AB (Nasdaq Stockholm: AXFO) is a Swedish company that operates in Sweden. It was formed in May 2000 through a merger between the Swedish grocery store chains Hemköp, D&D Dagligvaror, Spar Sverige, and Spar Inn Snabbgross. The Group’s retail operations are conducted through the Willys, Hemköp, and Axfood Snabbgross chains, comprising 300 group-owned stores in all. In addition, Axfood collaborates with […]
Avalanche Studios Group is a Swedish video game developer and publisher based in Stockholm. It is a parent company that includes Avalanche Studios, Expansive Worlds, and Systemic Reaction. Founded by Linus Blomberg and Christofer Sundberg in March 2003, Avalanche Studios focuses on developing open world projects and bases them on their proprietary Apex game engine (formerly known as Avalanche Engine). The company is […]
Autoliv Inc. is a Swedish-American automotive safety supplier with sales to all leading car manufacturers worldwide. Together with its joint ventures, Autoliv has over 67,000 employees in 27 countries, of whom 5700 are involved in research, development and engineering. In addition, the company has 14 technical centers around the world, including 19 test tracks, more than any other automotive […]
Assa Abloy AB is a Swedish conglomerate whose offerings cover products and services ranging from locks, doors, gates and entrance automation. This also includes controlling identities with keys, cards, tags, mobile and bio-metric identity verification systems. Brands ASSA, Sweden (name giver) Abloy, Joensuu & Helsinki, Finland (name giver) Arrow, USA August Home, USA Besam, Sweden Baron, […]
Aptilo Networks is a company headquartered in Stockholm Sweden, which produces and markets software systems to manage mobile data and Wi-Fi services for 3G, LTE, WiMAX, Wi-Fi and fixed broadband networks including solutions for mobile data offloading using Wi-Fi. Aptilo’s service management platform controls billing, user services and access within the network. The company offers service management and policy control solutions for both telephony network operators and Internet service providers. In […]
AFRY (ÅF Pöyry) is a Swedish-Finnish engineering, consulting and design company within the fields of energy, industry, infrastructure and information technology. It was formed in 1895 and is one of the biggest Scandinavian consulting giants with headcount close to 17,500 consultants all over the world. Operation The AFRY Group consists of the parent company AFRY AB […]
Acne Studios is a multidisciplinary luxury fashion house based in Stockholm, Sweden that specializes in men’s and women’s ready-to-wear fashion, footwear, accessories and denim. Founded in 1996, the label derives its name from the creative collective ACNE; initially an acronym for Associated Computer Nerd Enterprises that was later changed to Ambition to Create Novel Expressions. Products Acne Studios design men’s and women’s ready-to-wear fashion, footwear, denim, and accessories including handbags, […]
Hennes & Mauritz AB is a Swedish multinational clothing-retail company known for its fast-fashion clothing for men, women, teenagers, and children. As of November 2019, H&M operates in 74 countries with over 5,000 stores under the various company brands, with 126,000 full-time equivalent positions. It is the second-largest global clothing retailer, behind Spain-based Inditex (parent company of Zara).
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson commonly known as Ericsson, is a Swedish multinational networking and telecommunications company headquartered in Stockholm. The company offers services, software and infrastructure in information and communications technology for telecommunications operators, traditional telecommunications and Internet Protocol (IP) networking equipment, mobile and fixed broadband, operations and business support services, cable television, IPTV, video systems, and an extensive services operation. Products and […]