Carl Bennet
Gothenberg, Sweden
Master of Business Administration, University of Gothenburg
Sweden
investments, Self Made
$3,900,000,000
715
#715 Billionaires 2019
Swedish industrialist Carl Bennet controls four companies on the Stockholm stock exchange.His holdings include business group Lifco, medical supplies company Arjo and printing company Elanders.He also controls medical products company Getinge, which Bennet and fellow investor Rune Andersson acquired from Electrolux in 1989.They ran the company together for nearly a decade before parting ways.
Bennet has criticized Sweden's central-left government for not doing enough to battle youth unemployment in Sweden, and proposes a German-style apprentice system.In 2014 Bennet reintroduced Lifco to the public market at 28 times the price he paid for the company to take it private 14 years earlier.
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