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'Serbs are like Breivik': Swedish radio host

Society: 25 Apr 12
A well-known Swedish radio host has been suspended for calling Serbs “stupid” and comparing them to Norwegian mass-murderer Anders Behring Breivik during a recent broadcast. READ »

Swedish broadcaster MTG quits Slovenia

Business & Money: 5 Jan 12
Swedish broadcaster MTG said on Wednesday that the company intends to close down its Slovenian television channel and cease operations in the country due to the continued unpropitious media environment there. READ »

Swedish church makes money from porn

National: 16 May 11
The diocese of Lund is in contravention of official church policy by investing in companies that make money through distributing porn, despite very clear guidelines from the Church of Sweden on the issue. READ »

Swedes shy away from stock market: study

Business & Money: 19 Jan 11
The number of Swedes playing the stock market dropped in 2010, according to new statistics, while telecom firms Ericsson and TeliaSonera topped the list of Swedish firms with the most shareholders. READ »

MTG stock falls despite profits hike

Business & Money: 19 Oct 10
Swedish media concern Modern Times Group has reported a pre-tax profit of 499 million kronor ($75 million) for the third quarter 2009, up from 336 million kronor in the corresponding period of 2009, while disappointing the markets. READ »

MTG wins rights to English Premier League

Business & Money: 22 Mar 10
Viasat, part of the MTG group, has won the exclusive rights to broadcast the English Barclays Premier League for the next three seasons for an undisclosed sum. READ »

Sweden's MTG surges on strong profits

Business & Money: 22 Jul 09
Swedish media concern Modern Times Group (MTG) has reported a pre-tax profit of 566 million kronor ($74 million) for the second quarter 2009, exceeding market forecasts. READ »

Three Swedes among world's most powerful businesswomen

Society: 29 Sep 08
Three Swedish women are among Fortune magazine’s most powerful business women in the world, with SEB bank CEO Annika Falkengren coming in seventh place. READ »

Sweden's CEOs see wages swell

Business & Money: 7 Jun 07
Sweden's top bosses saw their pay packets swell by 13 percent last year, while other wage earners had average increases of just 3 percent. READ »

3 wins battle for magic number

Business & Money: 3 Apr 07
A three-year dispute has ended with mobile operator 3 preserving the right to use the number 3 despite an appeal launched by the owners of TV3. READ »

Stenbeck 'to take over at Kinnevik'

Business & Money: 8 Mar 07
Cristina Stenbeck, 29, is to take over as chairwoman of family holding company Kinnevik in May, it has been reported. Kinnevik controls major companies including Metro International. READ »

MTG buys Swedish internet community Playahead.com

Business & Money: 9 Jan 07
Modern Times Group, MTG AB, said it has acquired 90 percent of the share capital in Swedish online social networking community 'playahead.com' for 102 million kronor in cash. READ »

Profits double for MTG

Business & Money: 25 Oct 06
Swedish media group MTG has reported third-quarter pretax profit of 647 million kronor, more than double the figure for the same period last year. READ »

Kinnevik boss 'Sweden's top female executive'

Business & Money: 10 Oct 06
Mia Brunell, the new managing director of AB Kinnevik, has won this year's 'Ruter Dam' award for the most influential female executive in Sweden. READ »

New Moderate secretary named

Politics: 28 Sep 06
The Moderate Party has named communications director Per Schlingmann to the key post of party secretary. He replaces Sven-Otto Littorin, whose future is so far unclear. READ »

MTG buys Norwegian radio station

Business & Money: 13 Sep 06
Swedish entertainment giant Modern Times Group says it is to buy Norwegian radio station P4 Hele Norge. READ »

MTG posts 25 percent profit increase

Business & Money: 26 Jul 06
Profits at international entertainment and broadcasting group MTG nearly doubled in the second quarter, to 499 million kronor. READ »

MTG operating profits double

Business & Money: 26 Apr 06
Media giant Modern Times Group announces lower profits for the first quarter, but says operating profits are the 'best ever'. READ »

Swedish football rights sold in record deal

Sport: 1 Mar 06
Rights to show Swedish football games on television have been sold for up to 1.4 billion kronor to Swiss company Kentaro. This is good for football, say bosses, but TV companies are surprised by the high figure. READ »

MTG to launch TV6

Business & Money: 23 Feb 06
Modern Times Group AB said it will launch a new free Swedish TV channel, TV6, at the start of May. READ »

Pagrotsky isn?t listening to commercial radio

Analysis & Opinion: 23 Dec 05
When culture minister Leif Pagrotsky ditched plans for Sweden to switch to digital radio, he admitted that he hadn’t taken the interests of commercial radio into account. He should, argue the bosses of Sweden’s private radio companies. READ »

Swedish TV channel to transmit from Finland

National: 6 Sep 05
Strict Swedish rules on advertising have caused Swedish channel TV4 to decide to transmit its new documentary channel from Finland. We want to broadcast from a country with normal rules, says the company's boss. READ »

Battle for 3 rights continues

Business & Money: 26 Jul 05
Television channel TV3 wants to stop mobile operator 3 from using the number 3 in its branding. The court disagreed but now TV3 is appealing. Three's a crowd, indeed. READ »

TV3 admits paying fugitive half a million

National: 16 Feb 05
Joachim Posener is suspected of involvement in the 600 million crown Trustor fraud. He's been on the run for over seven years and has debts worth millions. Now a TV company finally admits to paying him a six figure sum for an interview. READ »

Metro boss resigns after racist "joke"

National: 13 Jan 05
Free morning newspaper Metro makes headlines of its own after revelations that one of its board members opened an after-dinner speech with the words "Good evening ladies, gentlemen and niggers". READ »

IKEA wins dispute in Russia

Smörgåsbord: 20 Dec 04
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