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Investor AB

Investor AB

Swedish investment and conglomerate holding company

Investor AB is a Swedish investment and holding company, often considered a de facto conglomerate. One of Sweden's largest companies, Investor AB serves as the investment arm of the prominent Swedish Wallenberg family; the family's companies are involved in a variety of industries, of which the primary industries are pharmaceuticals, telecommunications and industry.[2]

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Investor AB is Sweden's most valuable publicly traded company; it has major or controlling holdings in several of Sweden's other largest companies. It has numerous investments worldwide through Patricia Industries and EQT Partners.[3]

History

Investor AB was established in Stockholm when new Swedish legislation made it more difficult for banks to own stocks in industrial companies on a long-term basis. The shareholdings of the Wallenberg family bank, Stockholms Enskilda Bank, were transferred to Investor AB, a newly formed industrial holding company spun off from the bank, which would serve as the family's investment arm henceforth.[4]

Investments

Listed companies

Investor AB owns significant holdings of the following companies. Ownership shares vary from 3%-35% as of 2022.[5]

  • ABB - Provides electrification products, robotics and motion, industrial automation and power grids.
  • AstraZeneca - A biopharmaceutical company.
  • Atlas Copco - Provides compressors, vacuum and air treatment systems, construction equipment, power tools, and assembly systems.
  • Electrolux - Provides household appliances for consumer use.
  • Electrolux Professional - food service, beverage and laundry for professional use, spun off from Electrolux AB in 2020.
  • Epiroc - mining, infrastructure and natural resources.
  • Ericsson - Provides communications technology and services.
  • Husqvarna AB - Provides outdoor power products, consumer watering products, cutting equipment, and diamond tools.
  • Nasdaq, Inc. - Provides financial services and controls stock exchanges
  • Saab - Products for military defense and civil security.
  • SEB - A financial services group focusing mainly on the Nordic countries, Germany, and the Baltics.
  • Sobi - Biopharmaceutics
  • Wärtsilä - marine and power engine development.[6]

Patricia Industries

Investor AB owns the vast majority of the stock of Patricia Industries, as of 2022. Patricia Industries' key focus is to invest in and develop wholly-owned companies.

  • BraunAbility - automotive mobility products
  • Laborie - Develops, designs, and distributes innovative capital equipment for the urology and gastroenterology sectors, with complementing and recurring high-volume sales of disposable catheters
  • Mölnlycke Health Care - Designs, manufactures, and supplies single use products for managing wounds
  • Permobil - powered and manual wheelchairs, as well as cushions and accessories
  • Piab - A provider of gripping and moving for automated manufacturing and logistics processes
  • Sarnova - A provider of healthcare products to emergency care providers, hospitals, schools, businesses, and federal government agencies
  • Advanced Instruments - osmolality testing instrumentation and consumables for the clinical, biopharmaceutical, and food & beverage markets
  • Vectura - Develops, owns and manages real estate
  • 3 Scandinavia - Provides mobile voice and broadband services in Sweden and Denmark
  • Financial Investments - Financial Investments consist of investments in which the investment horizon has not yet been defined

Investments in EQT

Investments in EQT AB and EQT Funds.

  • EQT Partners - EQT manages and advises a range of specialized investment funds, and other investment vehicles that invest across the world with the mission to generate attractive returns and future-proof companies. As one of EQT's founders in 1994, Investor has invested in most of its funds.

Some former holdings

References

  1. [1]
    "Annual Report 2021" (PDF). Investor AB. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
  2. [2]
    "Our Companies". Investor AB. Retrieved 2023-10-28.
  3. [3]
    "Largest Swedish companies by market capitalization". companiesmarketcap.com. Retrieved 2023-10-28.
  4. [4]
    "Investor". Investor AB. Retrieved 2023-10-29.
  5. [5]
    Investor ABB. "Year End Report 2022". Retrieved 18 July 2023.
  6. [6]
    "Annual Report 2019" (PDF). Retrieved January 27, 2021.
  7. [7]
    "Investor AB – press release". Cision Wire. Archived from the original on 2012-07-22. Retrieved 2006-08-21.
  8. [8]
    Press release Investor AB 10 January 2000
  9. [9]
    "VW increases holding". Archived from the original on 2008-03-05.
  10. [10]
    "Investor AB - press release". Cision Wire. Archived from the original on 2013-01-19. Retrieved 2005-05-23.
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