The ÅF Group has agreed terms for the sale of one of its subsidiaries, the educational company ÅF-SIFU, to the Danish Technological Institute (Teknologisk Institut), which is based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The Danish Technological Institute will acquire all of the ÅF Group's shares in ÅF-SIFU, which represents a 75 percent stake in the company.
The sale is a further step in the ÅF Group's strategy towards concentrating operations to focus more exclusively on technical consulting. In the Group's opinion, the Danish Technological Institute is a sound and suitable purchaser, and one that will be able to continue to develop the operations of ÅF-SIFU.
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ÅF-SIFU has some 50 employees and reported sales of around SEK 75 million in 2002. The company's clients come both from the public sector and from private industry. ÅF-SIFU currently trains over 10,000 people a year in some 400 different subjects, both theoretical and vocational.
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Corporate Information
For further information:
Jonas Wiström, President & CEO,
Tel. +46(0)8-657 11 15 / +46(0)70-608 12 20
Viktor Svensson, Director, Corporate Information
Tel. +46(0)8-657 12 01 / +46(0)70-657 20 26
Danish Technological Institute:
Søren Stjernqvist, Administrative Director
Tel. +45 72 20 20 00
For immediate release:
30 September 2003