Investment AB Kinnevik

Infobox_Company
company_name = Investment AB Kinnevik
company_
company_type = Public (OMX|SSE999|KINV B)
foundation = 1936
location = Stockholm, Sweden
key_people = Cristina Stenbeck, Chairman and Principal Owner
Vigo Carlund, Outgoing CEO
Mia Brunell, Incoming CEO
industry = Investment
homepage = [http://www.kinnevik.se/ www.kinnevik.se]

Investment AB Kinnevik was established in 1936 by Wilhelm Klingspor and Robert von Horn as an investment company. They had just sold their sugar company and was left with a farming company Mellersta Sveriges Lantbruks AB and cash. Their lawyer was Hugo Stenbeck. The lawyer gor significant operating control over the company. Over time he acquired shares from his clients and eventually became the largest shareholder of the company. The lawyer's son, Jan Stenbeck, transformed the company into a modern holding company. Kinnevik is today one of the largest listed investment companies in Europe with total assets of $ 7 billion. Over the past 30 years Kinnevik has set up hundreds of entrepreneurial new businesses within media, telecoms and business services. A number of these businesses have then been spun off by means of dividend share issues to Kinnevik shareholders, and listed separately on Stock Exchanges in Europe and North America, such as the European mobile and fixed line operator Tele2, The Scandinavian and Eastern European broadcasting group Modern Times Group MTG AB, the leading global free newspaper company Metro International, the European call center and debt collection company Transcom WorldWide, the financial services group Invik & Co and finally the emerging market mobile telecommunications group Millicom International Cellular S.A. with licenses in 17 countries. Kinnevik also wholly owns Korsnäs which is a carton board manufacturing business focused mainly on liquid packaging board.

In the beginning of 2007 the market value of the Group's holdings of listed securities amounted to SEK 37,800 million ($5.4 billion).

Quick facts

*Performance - Since 1976, Kinnevik’s shares have generated an average effective yield of almost seventeen per cent per year through higher share prices and dividends, as well as the value of the offer to subscribe for shares.
*Market value of the Group's holdings of listed securities: SEK 37 800 million ($5.4 billion) in the beginning of 2007.
*Book value (balance sheet shareholders' equity) of unlisted holdings: SEK 11 800 million (including "interest bearing net debt"?) : [http://wpy.observer.se/wpyfs/00/05/74/71/wkr0001.pdf Annual Report 2004] .

Operating companies

*Korsnäs Holding AB
*Mellersta Sveriges Lantbruks AB (MSLA)
*Förvaltnings AB Eris & Co
* [http://www.relevanttraffic.com Relevant Traffic Europe AB]

Listed holdings

In order of size

*Millicom International Cellular S.A.
*Tele2
*Transcom WorldWide AB
*Metro International
*Modern Times Group MTG AB
*Kontakt East Holding

ee also

Other investment companies

*Berkshire Hathaway
*Investor AB
*Liberty Media Corporation

External links

Company websites

* [http://www.kinnevik.se/ Kinnevik]
* [http://www.kinnevik.se/default.asp?ML=2735 Kinnevik - Kinnevik in brief]