Bure Equity

Bure Equity is a Swedish investment company involved in communications, textiles, training, and education.[1] It is the largest private school operator in Sweden. Bure Equity owns Vittra, a company that runs schools in Sweden and other countries.[2]

On February 11, 2009, Altor Fund III and Bure Equity AB signed an agreement to acquire Carnegie Investment Bank, a leading independent Nordic investment bank, from the Swedish National Debt Office.[3] The total net asset value on 31 December 2016 amounted to six billion kroner and the largest holdings were in the companies Mycronic and Vitrolife. The company also has shares in, among others, the industrial company Cavotec, the pharmaceutical company MedCap, the medical technology company Xvivo Perfusion and the auction company Lauritz.com.[4]

Henrik Blomquist took over as CEO in 2014.[5]

On 20 January, 2022, Bure sold their locomotive leasing business for an undisclosed amount. [6]

  1. ^ Corporate Information Snapshot Archived July 8, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Embracing private schools Washington Times August 11, 2008
  3. ^ "Bure - press release". Cision Wire. Archived from the original on 2012-07-30. Retrieved 2009-02-11.
  4. ^ "Bure - Finansiella rapporter". www.bure.se. Retrieved 2022-07-25.
  5. ^ "Blomquist utsedd till vd i Bure | Affärsvärlden". 2018-07-20. Archived from the original on 2018-07-20. Retrieved 2022-07-25.
  6. ^ "Bure Equity sells locomotive leasing business". 2022-01-24. Retrieved 2023-11-10.