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L.M. Ericsson
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Global Expansion from a Small-Country Base, Land and Forest as Parallel Wealth Store, Spin-Off to Multiply, Never Conglomerate
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At the turn between the 1960s and 1970s, Asea, L.M. Ericsson, Volvo, Skånska Cementgjuteriet, and Rederi AB Nordstjernan were the five largest companies in Sweden. In Hermansson’s book, the fifteen original families wer…
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"At the turn between the 1960s and 1970s, Asea, L.M. Ericsson, Volvo, Skånska Cementgjuteriet, and Rederi AB Nordstjernan were the five largest companies in Sweden. In Hermansson’s book, the fifteen original families were named Wallenberg, Söderberg, Wehtje, Johnson, Bonnier, Kempe, Klingspor, Jeansson, Dunker, Broström, Schwartz, Hammarskiöld, Jacobsson, Åselius, and Throne-Holst."
Sweden's Most Powerful Families - The Companies, the People, the Money
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Global Expansion from a Small-Country BaseLand and Forest as Parallel Wealth StoreSpin-Off to Multiply, Never ConglomerateDrug Repurposing as Market ExpansionControl Architecture Over Capital EfficiencyDebt Aversion from Farming RootsCrisis-Price Entry as Wealth OriginMultiple Expansion Through Proven OwnershipBack the CEO, Never Touch the ControlsFlee the State to Protect the CompanyEternal Horizon, Never Sell the CoreBuy at 'Nice Price Tags' During CrisisGenerational Transfer as Strategic Design, Not InheritanceExplorer-Billionaire: Eight Poles as IdentityPeptide Hormone Bet Held for Seven DecadesPhilanthropy as Market-Building