Ekholmen Group

About us

Who we are, and where this is going.

The short version

Ekholmen Group was founded in 2026 to buy profitable small and mid-sized companies and hold them permanently. We are generalists. What our companies will have in common is not an industry, it is that they are well run and that someone built them carefully.

We are at the very beginning, so there is no portfolio to show yet, and we would rather say that plainly than dress it up. What we can be judged on today is how we behave in a conversation with an owner.

Where this is going

Over the coming years, we intend to build a decentralised group of leading niche companies across diverse industries.

As a group that spans many sectors, we build the resilience to tell an owner we expect to still be here in twenty years, and the strength to support our management teams along the way.

At the centre of that philosophy is disciplined capital allocation. We think the people already running a successful business are best placed to find good organic opportunities for capital, and that every company we acquire brings even more skilled people to our team.

Our roots

Our majority owner is Holmströmgruppen, a privately held Stockholm group founded by Fredrik Holmström in 2006.

Fredrik is a long-term, relationship-driven owner who usually takes a board seat and puts his network to work in the companies he backs. That patience and long-term stewardship reflect the same view we hold about ownership, which is why we have no fixed exit deadline.

The team

Our approach