CEO

Business

Swedish trio among world's best executives

Three Swedish bosses have landed spots on the top-100 chief executives in the global business world according to a key ranking published on Tuesday.

racism

Sweden rapped for 'too white' company boards

The ten largest listed companies in Sweden are being criticised for failing to display diversity on company boards, with just eleven out of ninety top staff having a non-European background according to the latest figures.

Jobs

Sweden's highest-paid CEOs keep getting richer

The best-paid CEOs in Sweden saw their collective paychecks balloon by nearly 100 million kronor ($15.1 million) in 2012, found a new review that also discovered that Sweden's highest earner last year was a woman.

Working in Sweden

Swedish CEO salaries 'unacceptable': union

The CEOs of Sweden's 50 largest companies earn on average 40 times more than an industrial worker, a finding that a union organisation head believes is "totally unacceptable" and requires a "popular uprising" to remedy.

gambling

Svenska Spel CEO fired in major shakeup

The board of state-owned gambling enterprise Svenska Spel has sacked its CEO Meta Persdotter, Chairwoman Margareta Winberg announced on Wednesday.