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Abbott is a global healthcare company devoted to researching, developing, manufacturing and marketing pharmaceutical and medical products...

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Abbott is a global healthcare company devoted to researching, developing, manufacturing and marketing pharmaceutical and medical products including diagnostic, nutritional and medical instruments.

Abbott was founded 120 years ago. The company's Swedish operations were launched in 1946. Today Abbott markets its products in more than 130 countries and has more than 90,000 employees worldwide.

Through significant investments in research, the company has developed groundbreaking products within fields such as infectious diseases, heart diseases, neurological and immunological diseases, among others. This makes Abbott a world leader within its field, topping Fortune Magazine's 2010 list of the most admired and respected companies in the pharmaceutical industry.

Abbott has also received distinctions from the Great Place to Work Institute as one of Sweden's best workplaces in 2010, as well as being named the best workplace within the pharmaceutical and medical technologies industry.

Read more at www.abbott.se

Axfood develops and produces successful food concepts based on clear and attractive customer offerings...

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Axfood develops and produces successful food concepts based on clear and attractive customer offerings. Today this consists of retail and wholesale food trade in Sweden.

Axfood's retail trade is carried out via company-owned chains such as Willys, Hemköp and PrisXtra, which amount to 225 individual retail stores. In addition, Axfood cooperates with a large number of contractually connected merchant-owned stores, both within the Hemköp and Willys chains as well as under brands such as Handlar'n and Tempo. Axfood cooperates with a total of some 840 merchant-owned stores.

Wholesale trade is carried out through Dagab and Axfood Närlivs.

Axfood has a 19.3 percent market share in Sweden.

Axfood has been a tenant of Solna Gate since 2004, with some 600 employees on the premises.

Quick facts
Industry: Retail and wholesale trade
Net turnover (2009): SEK 32.4 billion
Total number of employees (2009): 6,800
General: Axfood is listed on the Stockholm stock exchange. The company's
primary shareholder is Axel Johnson AB, with approximately 46 percent
share ownership. Read more at www.axfood.se

Covidien, (formerly Tyco Healthcare) is a world leader in healthcare products, with a significant number of employees in several countries...

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Covidien (formerly Tyco Healthcare) is a world leader in healthcare products, with a significant number of employees in several countries. By working with highly qualified healthcare professionals and professional organizations, the company is known for both its market-leading products and overall quality.

Covidien is a pioneer of many world-renowned healthcare products such as contrast media, pulse oximetry, electrosurgery, surgical stapling and laparoscopic instrumentation. The company offers an extensive product line that spans medical devices, pharmaceuticals and medical supplies, and serves healthcare needs in hospitals, long-term care and alternate care facilities, doctors' offices and in the home.

Covidien's philanthropic efforts are devoted to contributing to and enabling better quality healthcare, in part through financial contributions to programs aimed at treating specific diseases worldwide.

Covidien has been a tenant of Solna Gate since 2004, with some 40 employees on the premises.

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Industry: medical and healthcare products
Sales (2009): USD 10 billion (one-third of which is outside the U.S.)
Total number of employees: 42,000, in 60 countries
General: More than two-thirds of company employees work in one of 65
manufacturing facilities in 16 countries.


Read more at www.covidien.com

Diaverum Diaverum (formerly Gambro Healthcare) is one of the world's largest independent renal care providers...

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Diaverum (formerly Gambro Healthcare) is one of the world's largest independent renal care providers and a European market leader.

Since its founding 20 years ago Diaverum has been a leader in the renal care market. Operations are currently active in 14 countries worldwide, from South America to Europe and Australia, serving more than 16,000 dialysis patients.

Diaverum is the only independent European care provider entirely devoted to renal care, and without bias towards internal production of medical equipment or pharmaceuticals. This allows the company to place full focus on the patient and devote all its energies towards developing and offering the highest possible quality of care.

Diaverum has been a tenant of Solna Gate since August 2010.

Quick facts
Industry: healthcare
Total number of employees: 6,500


Read more at www.diaverum.se

Det Norske Veritas (DNV) is an independent global provider of services aimed at protecting lives, property and the environment...

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Det Norske Veritas (DNV) is an independent global provider of services aimed at protecting lives, property and the environment. As a world leader in risk management, the objective is not always to eliminate risk, but to have an overview of the most critical risks and manage them professionally.

DNV's technical expertise and experience within risk management have been used to examine, evaluate and manage the risks involved in a large number of high-profile projects around the world. A global network, combined with modern information technology, enables the company to consistently serve its clients across the globe.

Approximately 70 DNV employees now have Solna Gate as their workplace. DNV has been a tenant of Solna Gate since 2007.

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Industry: risk management
Sales (2008): NOK 9,560 million
Total number of employees: 9,000 employees at 300 offices in 100 countries.
General: DNV was founded in Norway in 1864 and is headquartered in Oslo.


Read more at www.detnorskeveritas.se

Gilead Sciences is a research-based biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops...

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Gilead Sciences is a research-based biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercializes innovative medicines in areas of unmet need. Gilead's primary areas of focus include HIV/AIDS, liver disease and serious cardiovascular/metabolic and respiratory conditions.

Since its founding 20 years ago Gilead has become a leading biopharmaceutical company with a rapidly expanding product portfolio and a growing pipeline of investigational drugs. BusinessWeek has ranked Gilead #3 in its list of the world's 50 best-performing companies.

Gilead Sciences now has 20 employees at its offices in Solna Gate, where the company has been a tenant since 2007.

Quick facts
Industry: pharmaceutical
Sales (2009): USD 7 billion
Total number of employees: 4,000 employees on four continents
General: Founded in the U.S. in 1987. Headquartered in Foster City, California.


Read more at www.gilead.com

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is a global leader within the pharmaceutical industry, with some 100,000 employees...

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GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is a global leader within the pharmaceutical industry, with some 100,000 employees worldwide and an annual turnover of approximately 300 billion SEK. 15.000 GSK employees are devoted to research and development of new drugs.

GSK produces medicines that treat major disease areas such as asthma, virus control, infections, mental health, diabetes and digestive conditions. In addition, the company is a leader in vaccine development and is developing new treatments for cancer.

GSK is one of the few pharmaceutical companies researching both medicines and vaccines for the World Health Organization's three priority diseases - HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, for which it has developed some of the leading global medicines.

GlaxoSmithKline has been a tenant at Solna Gate since August 2010.

Quick facts
Industry: pharmaceutical
Annual turnover (Sweden): approx. 1.2 billion SEK
Total number of employees (Sweden): 170


Read more at www.glaxosmithkline.se

The Länsförsäkringar Alliance is unique in the Swedish bank and insurancemarket. The 24 customer-owned regional...

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The Länsförsäkringar Alliance is unique in the Swedish bank and insurance market. The 24 customer-owned regional insurance companies cooperate, thereby combining the ability of a small company to adapt to its customers with the strength of a large company.

Länsförsäkringar Stockholm focuses on the Stockholm region with some 500,000 customers from Nynäshamn in the south, Norrtälje in the north, and Södertälje in the west. The company's task is to offer total solutions based on different combinations of non-life insurance, accident and medical insurance, life assurance, pension saving plans, fund savings and various banking services.

Some 35 employees of Länsförsäkringar Stockholm have their workplace at Solna Gate, where the company has been a tenant since 2004.

Read more at www.lansforsakringar.se/stockholm

Q-Park is one of Europe's leading parking companies with 800,000 car parks in ten countries...

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Q-park is one of Europe's leading parking companies with 800,000 car parks in ten countries. Several of Q-Park's parking facilities have been awarded international honors for their spectacular architecture and inviting designs.

Since its acquisition of Carpark in 2006, Q-park is now a leader in Sweden as well. Q-park's ambition is to be the preferred parking alternative among Sweden's drivers, offering everything from facilities management to parking space rentals, parking surveillance and maintenance.

Quick facts
Industry: parking
Total number of employees (Sweden): approx. 270
General: Formerly Carpark, Q-park now operates some 1,500 parking
facilities throughout Sweden


Read more at www.q-park.se

Family-owned Sabis, founded more than 130 years ago, Sabis is devoted to ensuring quality in everything ranging from...

Brief company presentation
A family-owned food service company founded more than 130 years ago, Sabis is devoted to ensuring quality in everything ranging from the ingredients themselves to the store or restaurant's level of service.

Today Sabis runs some twenty chain restaurants and eight grocery stores in the Greater Stockholm area, where the company has met its customers' needs by developing a number of successful new concepts.

For several years in a row Sabis has also secured its place at the top of the "Chain Restaurant of the Year" competition. The company has also represented Sweden in two of the most recent Culinary Olympics, in the category "Chain Restaurants", which earned the team a silver medal in 2008.

Some ten Sabis employees now have their workplace at Solna Gate, where the company has been a tenant since 2008.

Quick facts
Industry: restaurant and food services
Turnover (2009): 1 billion SEK
Number of employees: 600
General: Founded in Stockholm in 1874


Read more at www.sabis.se

Summit's vision is to be Stockholm's most unique conference and event facility with first-class personal service...

Brief company presentation
Summit's vision is to be Stockholm's most unique conference and event facility with first-class personal service. Today Summit offers conference facilities and event planning at Hitech Building on Grev Turegatan, at Solna Gate, at Hide Away on Kungsholmen and at Summit Skofabriken at Hornstull, in addition to other locations. Each of Summit's facilities has its own, entirely unique character.

Summit's facilities at Solna Gate include the building's new reception area, twelve conference rooms (with capacity for 8-54 guests) and a 255-seat auditorium. Most spectacular of all is an atrium reaching to 16 meters in height.

Several Summit employees now have their workplace at Solna Gate, where the company has been a tenant since 2008.

Quick facts
Owner: Agneta Trygg
Turnover: approx. 30 million SEK
Number of employees: 22
5 conference centers
52 conference rooms


Read more at www.summit.se