Atlas Copco

"This is where Colly Group came in. During a meeting with the purchasing manager at Atlas Copco, a large industrial manufacturer specializing in compressors, tools, and vacuum solutions, Tindberg grasped the opportunity to ask about the company’s most respected suppliers. The…"

"When Finn, due to his high level of ambition and initial self-overestimation, tried to outmaneuver the skilled financial director Lennart Ohlsson to take over the position himself, Hans had had enough. Ohlsson’s closest man, the Swiss Felix Seiler, immediately announced that if Finn took over, he intended to leave with immediate effect. Based on Hans’ experiences as CEO and the leadership style he had developed, he was aware that an owning family to an innovative global conglomerate is utterly dependent on various key personnel. Hans fired Finn, but did it without first speaking with Gad, which did not exactly facilitate their relationship. Between 1990 and 1993, Finn instead worked as a controller in the company Atlas Copco."

"In his twilight years, this great leader of Swedish industry had appointed Volvo's CEO Pehr G. Gyllenhammar as his de facto successor in distrust of his own son Peter, "Pirre" Wallenberg. The new succession was manifested by cross-ownership between companies in the Wallenberg sphere and Volvo with related companies, which came to include the Wallenberg bastions Atlas Copco and Stora Kopparberg. But after the father's death, Pirre regained the initiative and, among other things, bought the majority of Forsinvest with the large Volvo holdings, in open confrontation with PG Gyllenhammar."