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Astra Zeneca slashes 400 more jobs in Sweden

Business & Money: 15 May 12
Another 400 jobs will be cut from Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical manufacturer Astra Zeneca, the company has announced, with the majority of the redundancies in Södertälje, south of Stockholm. READ »

Astra Zeneca CEO leaves amid profit slump

Business & Money: 26 Apr 12
The Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical manufacturer Astra Zeneca announced on Thursday that its CEO David Brennan was leaving, while at the same time reporting a 44 percent fall in their first quarter profits. READ »

Astra Zeneca reports profits boost

Business & Money: 29 Apr 10
Anglo Swedish pharmaceuticals firm AstraZeneca reported a first quarter profit climb of 29 percent on Thursday on the back of a "strong" performance in emerging markets and sales of key products. READ »

Profits shoot up for AstraZeneca

Business & Money: 30 Jul 09
Swedish-Anglo pharmaceuticals giant AstraZeneca reported a 23.4 percent hike in interim net profits on Thursday despite the global recession. READ »

Sweden's Investor cuts losses

Business & Money: 15 Apr 09
Swedish holding company Investor reported net losses of 3.02 billion kronor ($368 million) for the first quarter on Wednesday. The firm's CEO forecast continued economic turbulence in 2009. READ »

Swedish investors cool to risks of stock ownership

Business & Money: 1 Sep 08
Swedes appear to prefer keeping their savings in the bank or under the mattress, rather than risk it in the volatile Stockholm stock market. READ »

Swedish CEOs see sharp rise in earnings

Business & Money: 28 Mar 08
The wages of managing directors in Sweden's top stock exchange listed companies continued to rise sharply last year with many firms posting record profits. READ »

Dramatic end to bourse week

Business & Money: 15 Mar 08
The Stockholm bourse ended the week in dramatic fashion following bad news from New York. READ »

Stock market falls across the board

Business & Money: 8 Mar 08
The Stockholm stock exchange fell across the board on Friday. Commodities and finance stocks led the fall. READ »

Sweden's financial families ride economic rollercoaster

Business & Money: 7 Dec 07
Two of Sweden's most powerful financial families, the Wallenbergs and the Stenbecks, have had a bumpy ride on this year's turbulent stock market. READ »

Six Swedish firms in Fortune 500

Business & Money: 12 Jul 07
Six Swedish companies have made it onto the annual list of the world's 500 most successful businesses published by Fortune magazine. The highest-ranked Swedish firm is Volvo, while Electrolux brings up the yellow-and-blue rear. READ »

Schyman storms Investor meeting

Politics: 27 Mar 07
Sweden's best-known feminist, Gudrun Schyman, has started her campaign to get more women appointed to company boards. First stop was the annual general meeting of the Wallenberg family's Investor. READ »

Investor profits slump

Business & Money: 18 Jan 07
Investor, Northern Europe's biggest industrial holding company, announced on Thursday a 35 percent drop in net profits in 2006 despite a 19 percent rise in the value of its share portfolio. READ »

Generic drug will hit Astra Zeneca profits

Business & Money: 22 Nov 06
A cheap copy of Astra Zeneca's Toprol-XL blood pressure drug is likely to push down profits at the Swedish-British pharma giant, the company has said. READ »

Hungary receives Gripen jets

Business & Money: 30 Mar 06
Hungary took delivery of their first five, out of a total of 14, JAS 39 Gripen fighter planes on Thursday. The planes were formally handed over by defence minister, Leni Björklund. READ »

Astra Zeneca loses heart drug patent

Business & Money: 18 Jan 06
The price of shares in Astra Zeneca plunge as the Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical group loses a fight to retain patent protection in the US over its top-selling heart drug Toprol XL. READ »

Swedish prosecutor to investigate Iraq bribes

Business & Money: 28 Oct 05
Prosecutor Christer van der Kwast is to investigate claims that Swedish companies, including Astra Zeneca, Volvo and Atlas Copco, paid bribes to former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's regime - contravening international sanctions. READ »

Ikea and Eriksson top graduates' target list

Business & Money: 23 Sep 05
Young Swedes still favour the big companies when it comes to their careers: Ikea, Ericsson, Volvo and Astra Zeneca are at the top of the list of young graduates' favourite employers. READ »

Astra Zeneca: new animal testing laws threaten 5,000 jobs

Business & Money: 16 Aug 05
Anglo-Swedish drugs company Astra Zeneca threatens to move its research labs out of Sweden if the government goes through with plans to tighten up the laws on animal testing. READ »

Steep pay rises for Sweden's listed company bosses

Business & Money: 15 Mar 05
Ericsson's managing director, Carl-Henric Svanberg tops Sweden's fat cat league table after taking home 22.3 million kronor last year - more than double his earnings from 2003. READ »

Lindex to stretch itself

Smörgåsbord: 24 Jan 05
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Record donations to Swedish disaster funds

National: 31 Dec 04
Swedish aid organisations report an "incredible reaction" to their appeals for funds to help victims of the catastrophe in Asia. READ »

Sweden "close to deflation"

Smörgåsbord: 22 Dec 04
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The art of business in Sweden

Lifestyle: 18 Oct 04
Big corporations are increasingly introducing art in the workplace - not on the walls but as a coffee break activity for bemused staff. And more Swedes than ever are retiring with a nice painting as a reward for years of loyal service. READ »

More work + same pay = happy boss

Business & Money: 6 Aug 04
Sweden's industry leaders call for their less affluent countryfolk to buckle down to some good old-fashioned hard work. Or else. READ »

Hungary for Swedish business

Business & Money: 30 Jul 04
Despite another high-profile declaration that Sweden is "the best country in the world", the country's big employers are moving out - to Eastern Europe. READ »

Smörgåsbord

Smörgåsbord: 23 Jul 04
There's nowhere better in the world to live than Sweden (erm, except Norway) - it's official! Although Astra Zeneca employees, civil engineers and a Danish family who was terrorised by a Salvation Army woman might disagree. READ »


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