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Casten Åke Loritz Almqvist, (born 17 March 1962 in
Casten Åke Loritz Almqvist, (born 17 March 1962 in Stockholm
Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...
), was the Swedish CEO
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for TV4 Media 2011-2022. December 2019-2022 he was also part of Telia Company's group executive management team leading the business area TV/Media.
During the fall of 2021, Casten Almqvist was appointed chairman of the board at Bonnier Books that owns Bonnierförlagen in Sweden, WSOY in Finland, Bonnier Media Deutschland as well as BookBeat, among other. Bonnier Books is operating in seven countries and have a revenue of around 7 billion SEK.
In 2008 he became CEO of Dagens Industri and Bonnier Business Press. In 2011 he was appointed CEO of TV4 and in 2013 head of the business area Bonnier Broadcasting, extending the scope to also include C More
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and Finish MTV Media. He was appointed "Digital Change Leader of the Year" in 2016 due to his work with accelerating the digital transformation at TV4 and Bonnier Broadcasting. TV4 was the most profitable commercial broadcaster in Europe in 2019 and 2020.
He has also been the CEO of McCann-Erickson and the CEO of channels TV3 Channel 3 or TV 3 may refer to:
Television
*Canal 3 (Burkina Faso), a commercial television channel in Burkina Faso
*Canal 3 (Guatemala), a commercial television channel in Guatemala
*Channel 3 (Algeria), a public Algerian TV channel owned by EPTV ...
, TV6 ad ZTV at MTG.
He graduated from Journalisthögskolan in Stockholm in 1986. Casten Almqvist has worked as a journalist and television producer for Strix Television and SVT.
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