holm b industry forestry products founded 1875 modo headquarters stockholm sweden key people fredrik lundberg chairman of the board henrik sj lund president and ceo products printing paper sawn timber paperboard number of employees 3 359 2014 website http www.holmen.com holmen is a swedish company which bases its business in the forest industry and the pulp and paper industry . holmen s main products are paperboard for consumer packaging and graphical applications . printing paper for magazines supplements direct mail directories books and newspapers . they also produce sawn timber for flooring window components furniture or construction . the current ceo is henrik sj lund . contents 1 history 2 organisation 3 owners 4 markets 5 products 6 references 7 external links history edit holmen was originally called mo och domsj ab modo a swedish company created in 1874 . carl kempe 1799 1872 a pomeranian born merchant originally partnered with his brother in law but was from 1836 single owner of a sawmill in mo at the river mo lven near rnsk ldsvik in northern sweden . carl kempe later established a steam powered sawmill at domsj on mo lven . the latter has been running as an independent company called domsj fabriker since 2000 and in 2011 it was acquired by india s aditya birla group . the company mo och domsj ab was created in 1874 by carl kempe s sons from these holdings among several other industries controlled by the kempe family . it was led at various times by the brothers bernhard 1830 1908 wilhelm and frans kempe 1847 1924 and remained in the control of the kempe family for most of the next century . originally producing and exporting timber the company moved into pulp and paper at the end of the 19th and early years of the 20th century and into wood based chemicals during the middle part of the 20th century . the name was usually abbreviated to modo and has since 1963 through sponsoring given name to the ice hockey team modo hockey . the company was merged with the norrk ping based industrial company holmens bruk ab in 1988 under the name mo och domsj ab . in february 2000 the group changed its name to holmen ab . in june 2016 the newsprint mill in madrid spain was sold to international paper . 1 organisation edit the holmen paper headquarters in norrk ping sweden holmen consists of several subsidiaries holmen paper iggesund paperboard iggesund timber holmen skog and holmen energi whereas the largest one is holmen paper with a total of two paper mills in sweden ; hallsta and braviken . n. iggesund paperboard has two paperboard mills ; one in iggesund sweden and one in workington england owners edit the largest owner in holmen is l.e. lundbergsf retagen controlled by billionaire fredrik lundberg with 32.9 % of the shares and 61.6 % of the total vote . markets edit the european market makes up about 86 % of holmen s total net income . holmen s single largest market is sweden with one fourth of the total net income followed by spain and germany where they are suppliers of newspaper to the daily newspaper printing companies . citation needed products edit holmen produce colored paper to newspapers such as financial times dagens industri and sportbladet . they are suppliers of colored newspaper in the united kingdom and sweden . holmen also have customers in japan united states singapore hong kong south korea and australia . the brands include holmen trnd holmen view holmen uniq holmen news holmen guide holmen xlnt holmen plus holmen book . holmen book the blucky book print paper is actually newspapers . however they sale at prices no less than if not higher than the standard book print paper lwc or cwf . references edit sale of newsprint mill in spain completed . retrieved 2016 07 06 . external links edit holmen official site retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title holmen company & oldid 742797738 categories companies based in stockholmpulp and paper companies of swedencompanies listed on the stockholm stock exchangecompanies established in 18751875 establishments in swedenforest products companieshidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parametersall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from april 2013 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschfran aisnorsk bokm lsuomisvenska edit links this page was last modified on 5 october 2016 at 21 20 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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