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Growth 9Transformation 53Decline 14Under construction & planned 16
Key figures
6,564affected by layoffs and closuresfrom 13 reports · since Jan 20261.2 per 1,000 in the labour force
Largest job cuts
- Volvo Cars to cut about 2,500 jobs, 2,000 of them in Sweden2,500 Affected staff ·
- Ericsson to cut around 1,600 jobs in Sweden1,600 Affected staff ·
- Telia to cut around 900 jobs across Nordic and Baltic markets900 Affected staff ·
Sectors
| Sector | Entries | Affected staff |
|---|---|---|
| Industry | 9 | — |
| Finance / Insurance | 7 | 400 |
| Energy | 4 | — |
| Forestry | 3 | 233 |
| Logistics | 3 | 115 |
Follow-up
Followed up: 2 of 2 announcements older than six months.
All outcomes and relocations →
Open cases
- PPI bids SEK 69 a share for Preservium PropertyNext milestone: 6 Nov 2026
- Stora Enso closes CLT production in Gruvön, about 80 jobs affectedNext milestone: 31 Dec 2026
- Public Property Invest to buy SBB social-property portfolio for SEK1.35bnNext milestone: 31 Dec 2026
- Scatec to acquire Urleasca wind project in Romania for €168m
- Nolato to acquire Irish electronics firm M&M Qualtech
Sums of the reports recorded in the tracker since recording began, not a complete picture of the labour market.
2026
- Endúr unit BMO to buy Swedish rock contractors F15 · Mergers · 🇳🇴 Norway / Sweden
- RoosGruppen to take about 90% of trampoline park chain JumpYard · Mergers · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- Hunter Capital RTO 1 agrees reverse takeover of ResoTher Pharma · Mergers · 🇸🇪 Sweden / Denmark
- Swedbank to cut around 500 jobs group-wide, 100 in the Baltics · Layoffs · 🇸🇪 Sweden / Estonia / Latvia / Lithuania
- Stena agrees to buy Norwegian ferry operator Color Line · Mergers · 🇸🇪 Sweden / Norway
- Volvo Cars to cut about 2,500 jobs, 2,000 of them in Sweden · Layoffs · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- PartnerTech to acquire Swedish firm Microprecision · Mergers · 🇳🇴 Norway / Sweden
- Addtech acquires UK firm Connectors & Switchgear · Mergers · 🇸🇪 Sweden / United Kingdom
- Danske Bank to cut 106 jobs across six countries · Layoffs · 🇩🇰 Denmark / Norway / Finland / Lithuania / Poland / Sweden
- EQT to acquire Qiagen for €46.50 per share in cash · Mergers · 🇸🇪 Sweden / Netherlands
- Gulf Keystone to merge with ShaMaran Petroleum · Mergers · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom / Sweden
- Scania opens SEK 975m R&D test facility in Södertälje · Expansions · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- Inission to acquire electronics maker Bavaria Digital Technik · Mergers · 🇸🇪 Sweden / Germany
- Commission pays Sweden and the Netherlands nearly €1bn in recovery funds · Policy · 🇸🇪 Sweden / Netherlands
- Dacke Industri acquires 80% of Inlead Automation · Mergers · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- Länsförsäkringar to cut 400 jobs in Sweden · Layoffs · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- Telia to cut around 900 jobs across Nordic and Baltic markets · Layoffs · 🇸🇪 Sweden / Finland
- Tessin Nordic files for bankruptcy in Stockholm · Closures · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- Hexagon agrees to buy Rocscience for $535m · Mergers · 🇸🇪 Sweden / Canada
- Commission selects 46 more strategic raw materials projects · Policy · 🇧🇪 Belgium / Bulgaria / Estonia / Finland / France / Germany / Greece / Italy / Lithuania / Netherlands / Poland / Portugal / Romania / Slovakia / Spain / Sweden
- Assemblin acquires Stockholm electrical firm BT El · Mergers · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- Arla to close Falbygdens Ost site in Falköping, cutting 60 jobs · Closures · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- Commission pays €9.8bn in recovery funds to five countries · Policy · 🇵🇱 Poland / Sweden / Belgium / Estonia / Cyprus
- Finnfoam to build new PIR insulation plant in Kristinehamn · Expansions · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- PPI bids SEK 69 a share for Preservium Property · Mergers · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- PPI plans bids for Origa Care and One Publicus · Mergers · 🇸🇪 Sweden / Finland
- Stora Enso closes CLT production in Gruvön, about 80 jobs affected · Closures · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- InfraRed to buy rail freight operator Hector Rail from Ancala · Mergers · 🇸🇪 Sweden / Germany
- Swedavia to cut 95 jobs at its Stockholm headquarters · Layoffs · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- Kosta glasbruk to cut 55 jobs at its Swedish glassworks · Layoffs · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- Public Property Invest to buy SBB social-property portfolio for SEK1.35bn · Mergers · 🇸🇪 Sweden / Finland / Norway
- Moelven to close Årjäng sawmill · Closures · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- New Wave Group to acquire sportswear maker Uhlsport · Mergers · 🇸🇪 Sweden / Germany
- NTT and Jernhusen to build wheelset-turning hall at Gothenburg depot · Expansions · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- Valmet to cut 115 jobs at its Swedish sites · Layoffs · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- Beijer Ref buys 90% of Lithuanian maker Refra · Mergers · 🇸🇪 Sweden / Lithuania
- Mandatum buys 78.4% of Swedish asset manager Cliens · Mergers · 🇫🇮 Finland / Sweden
- Nolato to acquire Irish electronics firm M&M Qualtech · Mergers · 🇸🇪 Sweden / Ireland
- Sweden's competition law reform takes effect · Policy · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- Sweden requires telecoms to block fraudulent calls and texts · Policy · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- Scatec to acquire Urleasca wind project in Romania for €168m · Mergers · 🇳🇴 Norway / Sweden / Romania
- Kenneth Dart triggers mandatory bid for Evolution AB · Mergers · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- Sweden unveils new minerals strategy · Policy · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- Sweden approves taller turbines for the Hästliden wind farm · Infrastructure · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- WIND opens cable storage and service hub in Oskarshamn · Expansions · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- Telenor to take control of Bahnhof at SEK 6.1bn valuation · Mergers · 🇳🇴 Norway / Sweden
- European Commission clears Gotlandsbolaget and EQT deal for Nordic Ferry · Policy · 🇩🇰 Denmark / Norway / Sweden
- Ambea bids SEK 20 per share plus Ambea shares for Humana · Mergers · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- Sweden halves public transport monthly pass prices with SEK 6.5bn · Policy · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- Wihlborgs to buy Castellum's southern Sweden property portfolio for SEK 13.3bn · Mergers · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- EQT to acquire satellite launch services provider Exolaunch · Mergers · 🇸🇪 Sweden / Germany
- Kesko to acquire Dahl businesses in Sweden, Norway and Denmark · Mergers · 🇫🇮 Finland / Sweden / Norway / Denmark / France
- Boden inaugurates 6 km rail line to Stegra steel plant · Infrastructure · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- Omda to acquire Saab's Public Safety Solutions business · Mergers · 🇳🇴 Norway / Sweden / United Kingdom
- Vossloh opens Sannahed switch plant with capacity of 900 a year · Expansions · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- Trafikverket secures Trelleborg–Rostock rail ferry until 2031 · Policy · 🇸🇪 Sweden / Germany
- Trafikverket to cut freight track access charges by 20% from 2028 · Policy · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- Sweden adopts SEK 1,171bn transport infrastructure plan for 2026–2037 · Policy · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- Sweden earmarks SEK 30bn for defence-relevant transport links · Policy · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- Hexagon completes acquisition of Waygate Technologies from Baker Hughes · Mergers · 🇸🇪 Sweden / USA
- Gotlandsbolaget to acquire 30% of Nordic Ferry Infrastructure · Mergers · 🇸🇪 Sweden / Norway
- Sweden debates adopting the euro amid Trump's geopolitics · Policy · 🇸🇪 Sweden / Euro area
- Wabtec completes acquisition of coupler specialist Dellner Couplers · Mergers · 🇺🇸 USA / Sweden
- Railcare acquires rights to Traversteknik radio control system · Mergers · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- Ericsson to cut around 1,600 jobs in Sweden · Layoffs · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- Green Cargo to cut about 115 full-time posts in Sweden · Layoffs · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- Vossloh acquires Swedish track-tamping firm Nordic Tamping Service · Mergers · 🇩🇪 Germany / Sweden
2025
- Sweden secures funding for Stockholm metro and Spårväg Syd tram · Policy · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- EQT fund to acquire A-Train, operator of Arlanda Express · Mergers · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- Gothenburg opens new tram Line 12 to Mölndal · Infrastructure · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- Swiss parliament withholds funding, SBB scraps Malmö night train · Policy · 🇨🇭 Switzerland / Denmark / Sweden
- Train Alliance buys Landskrona harbour shipyard site for SEK 485m · Mergers · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- Finnish government submits 2026 supplementary budget with rail funding · Policy · 🇫🇮 Finland / Sweden
- SJ ends Berlin night train as Sweden lets subsidy expire · Policy · 🇸🇪 Sweden / Denmark / Germany
- Scandic to take over Dalata's hotel operations for €500m · Mergers · 🇸🇪 Sweden / Ireland / United Kingdom
- Varberg–Hamra double-track upgrade opens to traffic · Infrastructure · 🇸🇪 Sweden
2026 · planned
- Trafikverket opens regional and long-distance platforms at Barkarby · Under construction & planned · 🇸🇪 Sweden
2027 · planned
- Infrakraft to renew 66 km of Malmbanan track between Boden and Näsberg · Under construction & planned · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- Stockholm extends the Blue Line metro to Barkarby · Under construction & planned · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- GlobalConnect to lay fibre cable between Sweden, Estonia and Finland · Under construction & planned · 🇪🇪 Estonia / Sweden / Finland
2028 · planned
- Stockholm extends the Green Line metro to Arenastaden · Under construction & planned · 🇸🇪 Sweden
2029 · planned
- Öresundskraft approves CO2 capture at Filbornaverket in Helsingborg · Under construction & planned · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- Uppsala builds new tramway to the university hospital · Under construction & planned · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- Stockholm resumes Tvärbanan extension to Helenelund at SEK 9.3bn · Under construction & planned · 🇸🇪 Sweden
2030 · planned
- Trafikverket plans new 60 km railway line Gothenburg–Borås · Under construction & planned · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- Gothenburg delays completion of Västlänken rail tunnel to 2030 · Under construction & planned · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- Infranord to rebuild Luleå C station by 2030 in SEK 450m contract · Under construction & planned · 🇸🇪 Sweden
2031 · planned
- Gävle builds Atlas wastewater plant for 150,000 people by 2031 · Under construction & planned · 🇸🇪 Sweden
2035 · planned
- Sweden's Ostlänken line Järna–Linköping is under construction · Under construction & planned · 🇸🇪 Sweden
2036 · planned
- Sweden approves the Fyrskeppet offshore wind farm with a 2036 deadline · Under construction & planned · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- Sweden approves the floating Vidar offshore wind farm with a 2036 deadline · Under construction & planned · 🇸🇪 Sweden
2048 · planned
- Hässleholm–Lund double-track project is in early planning · Under construction & planned · 🇸🇪 Sweden