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FAMILY PARTNERSHIP INVEST
Newly formed owner
company to build companies
with long-term profitability
During the year, Mellby Gård started the owner company Family
Partnership Invest (FPI) with Profura AB and Santhe Dahl Invest AB, along
with some private investors. FPI will mainly seek to own small and medium-
sized niche companies occupying leading positions in the market.
The aim of FPI is to serve as a catalyst for companies with clear Daniel Wedberg. “Shared values are important at FPI, as they make
potential and an ambition to grow. A key parameter is that everyone feel involved. Leadership should motivate employees,
the companies must have an unique offer and own part of the ensure that everyone’s skills are made use of and challenge all parts
value chain. of the company to boost profitability.”
“The founders and owners of FPI are a small group of down-to-earth EXTREMELY LONG-TERM APPROACH TO OWNERSHIP
entrepreneurs who share the same values,” says Johan Andersson, FPI is looking for companies with an industrial base and takes an
Chairman of the Board of Mellby Gård. “We complement each other extremely long-term approach to its ownership. Its aim is to find
and have experience in many parts of a company’s development, between three and five platform companies to build the business
such as growth, small companies, global operations, production, around.
retail and service companies, along with what are known as turna-
rounds.” “We drew up a longlist of 900 potential companies during the year,”
says Arne Karlsson. “Of these, we analyzed around 100 and held
The most important thing is that discussions with around 30. We have a couple of hotter processes,
we enter the right companies in but the most important thing is that we enter the right companies in
the right way.”
the right way
FPI has just over SEK 1 billion in equity, and if you add potential
ARNE KARLSSON borrowing capacity, its investment scope is close to SEK 2 billion.
MANAGEMENT WITH OWNERSHIP ISSUES IN ITS BLOOD SEEKING AT LEAST A MAJORITY STAKE IN COMPANIES
Daniel Wedberg is CEO of FPI and Arne Karlsson is Chairman of the The companies in which FPI invests must have their headquarters
Board. Daniel Wedberg grew up in a family of entrepreneurs and in the Nordic region, as active ownership requires geographical
has extensive experience from Scania, where he ran an investment proximity.
business. Since then he has continued to work with ownership issues,
most recently at Lagercrantz Group. Arne Karlsson has extensive “We have a preference for family businesses,” says Daniel Wedberg.
experience of ownership issues in both the financial and the industrial “As we’ll be developing the companies over a long period of time, we
sectors, particularly as CEO and Chairman of the Board of the listed want to be majority owner but would like the previous owner to retain
company Ratos. For a number of years he has been a member of a minority stake. The companies will primarily grow organically, but
several boards, including A.P. Møller-Mærsk AS, and Chairman of the we must also have the resources to make add-on acquisitions.”
Board of Einar Mattsson AB.
Arne Karlsson adds:
“Long-term profitability requires a strong and healthy corporate “As long as we have a good flow of investment opportunities, we’re
culture with motivated employees who enjoy working together,” says in no hurry. Naturally, we want to start investing as soon as possible,
but we’re building for the long term and so it doesn’t matter if we
make the first investment in May 2025 or August 2026.”
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