Förvaltningsaktiebolaget Stattum, a Swedish government holding company that can be characterized as a

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. It was set up in 1991, to manage the listed shareholdings of the Swedish government, following the dismantling of Fortia AB and

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. Shareholdings included Celsius Industrier AB, AssiDomän,

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, earlier Svenskt Stål AB (), is a Swedish company, formed in 1978, that spec ...

, and

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. Stattum played a leading role when the

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made the first attempt by a European government to address systematically the ownership and management of government enterprises in 1998–2001.

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