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Storskogen Group AB (publ)
Storskogen buys small and medium-sized businesses and lets them keep running mostly as they are, while providing central support and capital.
Storskogen is a Swedish owner of small and medium-sized businesses. It buys companies that already make money — everything from industrial workshops and trade firms to service businesses — and then holds onto them, often for the long haul.
The model is simple to describe. Storskogen finds a profitable niche business, buys most or all of it, and leaves the day-to-day running to the people who built it. In exchange, those businesses get something they usually lack on their own: access to capital for expansion, help with hiring and administration, and a parent that does not micromanage them. The companies keep their own names and their own culture, which matters a lot to founders who have spent decades building something. Where the money comes from is the businesses themselves. Each subsidiary generates its own revenue from its own customers — a factory selling parts to other manufacturers, a service firm billing clients, a trading company moving goods. Storskogen collects the profits and decides where to reinvest. It has also grown heavily through acquisitions, buying new companies and folding them into the group. That makes it part owner, part holding company, part shopping spree.
The honest flip side is that this model depends on two things going right: buying good businesses at sensible prices, and trusting the people running them. When acquisition prices are high or borrowed money is expensive, the arithmetic gets harder. The company has faced exactly that squeeze in recent years, with its share price falling sharply from its pandemic-era peak as interest rates rose and investors questioned the debt-funded buying spree. Storskogen raised fresh capital in 2024 to shore up its balance sheet. It is a real business making real products and services, but it is also a bet on disciplined dealmaking — and that bet has been tested.
Saved answer · last researched 12 Nov 2026