Jacob Wallenberg takes over as Investor chair
Claes Dahlbäck is stepping down as chairman of Investor after 27 years in the company, paving the way for Jacob Wallenberg - currently chair of SEB and son of Peter Wallenberg, the patriarch of Sweden’s Wallenberg dynasty - to assume an influential role in Swedish industry.
Dahbäck’s exit (he is resigning at Investor’s AGM next year) means that the cousins Jacob and Marcus Wallenberg, will hold the chairmanships of each other’s companies, Investor and SEB - a development which, according to Svenska Dagbladet, could be the first step towards an international bank deal involving SEB.
Dagens Nyheter, for its part, raised the issue of whether or not Marcus Wallenberg will stay put as Investor CEO. Having members of the Wallenberg clan as CEO and Chair of Investor may be unpalatable for some. However, representatives of Investor’s major shareholders, outside the Wallenberg sphere, are positive to the Wallenbergs taking a firmer grip on the holding company.
Meanwhile, Jacob Wallenberg lamented that industries do not generate jobs and warned that "jobless growth" - as the Americans put it - may be here to stay, reported Dagens Industri.
"This is a challenge for the entire western world," said Jacob Wallenberg.
OMX buys Copenhagen bourse
OMX, with CEO Magnus Böcker at the helm, has taken a step closer to its aim of becoming a Nordic-wide bourse by launching a 1.5 billion crown bid for Copenhagen Stock Exchange. Analysts thought that the price tag was a bit too high but that the move by OMX wasn’t totally unexpected.
US software giant bids for Digital Illusions
US software giant Electronic Arts (EA) yesterday placed a cash bid of 61 crowns per share, or about half a billion crowns, for Swedish company Digital Illusions. The board of Digital Illusions is recommending the bid, which carries a premium of 21 per cent on the current share price. However, analysts think the bid is too low and sees EA raising the offer in order for the deal to push through.
EA is the world's leading independent developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software for personal computers and advanced entertainment systems such as the PlayStation.
Sources: Dagens Nyheter, Svenska Dagbladet, Dagens Industri
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Dahbäck’s exit (he is resigning at Investor’s AGM next year) means that the cousins Jacob and Marcus Wallenberg, will hold the chairmanships of each other’s companies, Investor and SEB - a development which, according to Svenska Dagbladet, could be the first step towards an international bank deal involving SEB.
Dagens Nyheter, for its part, raised the issue of whether or not Marcus Wallenberg will stay put as Investor CEO. Having members of the Wallenberg clan as CEO and Chair of Investor may be unpalatable for some. However, representatives of Investor’s major shareholders, outside the Wallenberg sphere, are positive to the Wallenbergs taking a firmer grip on the holding company.
Meanwhile, Jacob Wallenberg lamented that industries do not generate jobs and warned that "jobless growth" - as the Americans put it - may be here to stay, reported Dagens Industri.
"This is a challenge for the entire western world," said Jacob Wallenberg.
OMX buys Copenhagen bourse
OMX, with CEO Magnus Böcker at the helm, has taken a step closer to its aim of becoming a Nordic-wide bourse by launching a 1.5 billion crown bid for Copenhagen Stock Exchange. Analysts thought that the price tag was a bit too high but that the move by OMX wasn’t totally unexpected.
US software giant bids for Digital Illusions
US software giant Electronic Arts (EA) yesterday placed a cash bid of 61 crowns per share, or about half a billion crowns, for Swedish company Digital Illusions. The board of Digital Illusions is recommending the bid, which carries a premium of 21 per cent on the current share price. However, analysts think the bid is too low and sees EA raising the offer in order for the deal to push through.
EA is the world's leading independent developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software for personal computers and advanced entertainment systems such as the PlayStation.
Sources: Dagens Nyheter, Svenska Dagbladet, Dagens Industri
Supplied by BECK TRANSLATIONS.
With an experienced team of in-house translators, Beck specialises in translating from Swedish into English in such areas as finance and economics, marketing and advertising, biotechnology, the environment, quality, and personnel & administration.
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