The British Swedish Chamber of Commerce is delighted to announce two new members: Vanitas, a specialist creative media consultancy, and Fair Investments Sweden a fair and client focused asset management company. Vanitas is a specialist creative media consultancy. They partner with international businesses and organisations across multiple industries to create, produce and enhance corporate communication strategy and media production demands. Throughout the years, they have collaborated with various leading global brands ...

Read More

UK Political Updates In recent weeks the news around the parties of government employees and politicians during the height of the pandemic has dominated British headlines. This political disruption has reduced the PMs personal popularity below even the levels of the previous PM (May) who he replaced. Over the summer of last year the PM held an approval rating of around 51% (net +2%) but this has now slumped to 28% ...

Read More

Founded more than 100 years ago, UPS is the world’s leading package delivery and logistics company and a member of BSCC. Despite the changes in the trading relationship between the UK and EU, the company has been able to adapt their operations. Michiel van Veen, the managing director of UPS Nordics, says that they have already helped their customers navigate these changes and meet the requirements of new import and ...

Read More

Holiday Bookings at ‘Pre-Pandemic Levels’ The BBC has reported that holiday bookings have now returned to “around pre-COVID levels” after the government announced that pre-departure tests for the fully vaccinated populous will be scrapped. Britain’s largest low-cost carrier, easyJet, has experienced an almost 200% rise on the previous week and TUI declared “a strong uptick” as bookings for warm climates lead the pack. Lanzarote has seen a 427% week on week ...

Read More

Husqvarna have released a documentary on the history of their automower. Earlier this month, our Patron company Husqvarna released a documentary on how their robotic mower helped transform them from an industrial to a technology company, and revolutionized gardening along the way. Give it a watch here. Grand Hôtel's restaurant Matbaren by Matthias Dahlgren wins Sweden's best hotel restaurant 2021. The World Culinary awards awarded Matbaren the prestigious prize for "pushing ...

Read More

UK Political Updates Over the last week the British political scene has generated the majority of headlines due to recent accusations, and camera footage, of Downing Street suggesting multiple Christmas parties took place last year whilst the nation was in a lockdown. During this period in 2020, England had laws in place to prosecute and fine individuals who celebrated Christmas outside of their own households and support bubbles. Downing Street maintains ...

Read More

Dan Sten Olsson is CEO and majority owner of Stena Sphere, a privately held Swedish conglomerate. Stena was founded in 1939 as a trading company by Dan's father, Sten, Dan took over in 1983 and now owns 51%. He graduated from the University of Gothenburg and spent a year at Clarkson Ltd in London before he embarked a long career in the family business, Stena in 1972. Dan Sten Olsson ...

Read More

UK By-Elections The month of December contains two by-elections in two ultra-safe Conservative Party seats but neither of which are likely to experience strengthened majorities due to disappointing polling data for the Party. Nationally, the ruling party is now polling neck-and-neck with the opposition (Labour) party at 37% and 36%, respectively, of voters which is 5% below their 43% vote share in the 2019 General Election. The first of these contested ...

Read More

Northern Ireland Economy The smallest country within the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland (NI), represents just 1.9m people in an area around 3% the size of Sweden: however, NI has almost fully recovered economically from the effects of COVID. Output in Q3 of 2021 is just 0.3% below the same period in 2019 according to ONS data. Comparatively, the West Midlands is down 10% for the same period (partly due to manufacturing ...

Read More

Handelsbanken, a BSCC Patron Member, on the 25th of November celebrated 150 years since their founding at Kornhalmstorg in the Old Town district of Stockholm. That year, in 1871, delivered the company with its first banking charter by royal decree and established Handelsbanken as a leading bank in the capital. By 1912 the firm had six branches in the city but now sought to expand across Sweden and so acquired ...

Read More