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Full coverage: Sweden

The Irish companies caught up in Northvolt’s fall from grace

Specialist recruitment firm SilverBack provided skilled technicians to Northvolt’s gigafactory. It is now monitoring the Swedish company’s bankruptcy and restructuring.

Jonathan Keane
13th Dec, 2024 - 3 min read

Inspired by the spirits: The rediscovered Swedish painter with a curious connection to Cork

The name Hilma af Klint doesn’t trip off the tongue, yet an exhibition of her work broke all attendance records at New York’s Guggenheim Museum and she might have been the very first abstract painter. So, who is Hilma?

Fergal Lenehan
16th Nov, 2024 - 6 min read

Why the Nordics are closing in on Ireland’s data-centre hub leadership

Dublin has long been top of the pack as a location for data centres. Now energy and infrastructure concerns in the race to net-zero emissions are leading operators to countries like Finland and Sweden instead.

Kristo Mikkonen
29th Jul, 2024 - 5 min read

CAB and the curious case of the $9.95 Swedish email accounts

A Swedish man failed in his appeal to stop the Criminal Assets Bureau transferring more than €600,000, linked to alleged credit card scams, to the State. The saga has been running for over 20 years.

Jonathan Keane
8th Jun, 2024 - 10 min read

Who is Bonnier, the Swedish media powerhouse that has taken a stake in the Business Post Group?

Bengt Braun is one of the most respected names in the European newspaper business. He is the former chief executive and chair of the Swedish group Bonnier, which has recently bought into the Business Post. What’s the significance of the move?

Tom Lyons
21st Jul, 2023 - 12 min read

“We will never truly achieve a level playing field until we allow people to be themselves”

Five years ago, Nordic business leader Caroline Farberger barely entertained the idea that the workplace wasn't an even playing field for men and women. But that was before she transitioned.

Rosanna Cooney
23rd Jan, 2023 - 7 min read

No smoke without fire: Amid a lockdown, one Irish fire safety business has managed to pull off a multi-million sale

In one of the few corporate transactions of the crisis, the Irish company Smoke & Fire Extract has sold its main product line to a listed Swedish company. Is this an outlier or are we set to see more deals close?

Thomas Hubert
9th Jun, 2020 - 2 min read
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