Holmen is a Swedish company which bases its business in the pulp and paper industry. Holmen's main products are newsprint- (both white and colored) and magazine paper for newspapers, magazines, directories and advertising prints. They also produce paperboard for consumer packaging and graphical applications.

Currently Holmen has 5238 employees (as of 2001).

The current CEO is Magnus Hall.

Contents

1 History 2 Organisation 3 Owners 4 Markets 5 Products 6 See also 7 External links

History

Holmen was originally called Mo och Domsjö AB (MoDo AB), but changed its company name to the current in February of 2000. The history of Holmen is more than 400 years old, and it started as a weapons factory in the beginning of the 17th century in Norrköping. In the mid 18th century what finally would become MoDo was formed.

Organisation

Holmen consists of several subsidiaries: Holmen Paper, Iggesund Paperboard, Iggesund Timber, Holmen Skog and Holmen Kraft whereas the largest one is Holmen Paper with a total of three paper mill in Sweden; one in Workington, England, and one in Madrid, Spain, thus the most of the production is located in Sweden.

Owners

The largest owner in Holmen is L.E. Lundbergsföretagen with 27.2% of the shares and 52.0% of the total vote.

Markets

The European market makes up about 86% of Holmen's total net income. While Holmen's single largest market is of no suprise: Sweden, with one fourth of the total net income, they are also especially strong in Spain and Germany where they are one of the leading suppliers of newspaper to the daily newspaper printing companies.

Products

Holmen produce colored paper to newspaper such as Financial Times, Dagens Industri and Sportbladet. Thus they are on of the leading suppliers of colored newspaper both in the United Kingdom and Sweden. Holmen also has customers as far away as Japan, USA, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea and Australia.

Some of the more important brands are,

• Holmen News
• Holmen News Pink
• Holmen News Salmon
• Holmen News Yellow
• Holmen Guide
• Holmen XLNT
• Holmen Scan
• Holmen Plus

where the last three are so called enhanced newsprint paper.

See also

Technology,

• paper
• paper machine
• paper mill
• pulp

Competitors,

• Cascades
• Georgia-Pacific
• International Paper
• M-real
• Nippon Unipack
• Oji
• Smurfit-Stone Container
• StoraEnso
• UPM-Kymmene
• Weyerhaeuser

External links

• Holmen (http://www.holmen.com/index_uk.html)