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Carl Bennet

Sweden 74 years old Self-Made

Overview

Source of Wealth
Investments
Residence
Gothenberg
Education
University of Gothenburg (Master of Business Administration)
Marital Status
Married
Children
1

Assets

  • Arjo AB
    74,250,000 shares @ -
    -
    ARJO.B-SE
  • Elanders AB
    17,740,000 shares @ -
    -
    ELAN.B-SE
  • Getinge
    55,020,000 shares @ -
    -
    GETI.B-SE
  • Lifco AB
    227,882,000 shares @ -
    -
    LIFCO.B-SE
  • Sandvik
    11,020,000 shares @ -
    -
    SAND-SE

Biography

Swedish industrialist Carl Bennet controls five companies on the Stockholm stock exchange.

His holdings include business group Lifco, medical supplies company Arjo and logistics company Elanders.

He also controls medical products company Getinge, which Bennet and fellow investor Rune Andersson acquired from Electrolux in 1989.

They ran the company together for nearly a decade before parting ways.

About

Bennet has criticized Sweden's central-left government for not doing enough to battle youth unemployment in Sweden, and proposes a German-style apprentice system.

In 2014 Bennet reintroduced Lifco to the public market at 28 times the price he paid for the company to take it private 14 years earlier.