Lindéngruppen AB

Lindéngruppen enables the establishment of the Lindén Professorship and the Centre for Aesthetics and Business Creativity (ABC) at Lund University. On 19th November, Daniel Hjorth, the Lindén Professor of Aesthetics and Business Creativity, officially opened the ABC centre. Jenny Lindén Urnes spoke about the role of the arts and humanities in business at the event. The professorship is named after Ulf G. Lindén, Lindéngruppen’s founder. The new research centre will be an interdisciplinary hub that blends aesthetics, ethics and business creativity to inspire new ways of thinking and doing. Link to the article on our website: https://lnkd.in/dJentE52 More information about the Centre for Aesthetics and Business Creativity: https://lnkd.in/dUT8-m2f Daniel Hjorth, Lund University School of Economics and Management, Lovisa Hamrin, The Hamrin Foundation, Fabio Pedrazzi, Erik Urnes, Jenny Johansson, Martin Nilsson #aesthetics #creativity #businesscreativity #existentialsustainability

The recipient of the 2025 Beckers Art Award – a grant of SEK 200,000 and an exhibition at Färgfabriken in Stockholm and KKAM in Höganäs – is Lisa Englund. Born in 1993, she lives and works in Stockholm. Lisa Englund graduated in 2023 with a Master’s Degree in textile art from the Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design. Lisa Englund receives the 2025 Beckers Artist Award for her exquisite textile sense of colour and the singularity and tenacity of her visual narratives. In short: Lisa Englund is honoured for her unique art of painting with wool. Read more about Lisa Englund as well as the full statement from the jury in Färgfabriken's press release: https://lnkd.in/dah7WhBJ #färgfabriken #beckersartaward #art #partnership

Lindéngruppen participated in an important global forum on children’s rights yesterday in Stockholm. Thank you to Global Child Forum for hosting the Global Child Forum 2024 and to all the participants from the world of business. We believe that sharing knowledge on how companies can put children’s rights at the heart of their sustainability strategy is increasingly important. As a long-term partner of Global Child Forum, Lindéngruppen also contributed to the new Corporate Playbook on children’s rights. The playbook provides practical advice and guidance on how businesses can incorporate children’s well-being and rights into their strategy and performance. Read more about the forum and the Corporate Playbook: https://lnkd.in/d4vHupb4 Jenny Lindén Urnes, Fabio Pedrazzi, Ellinor Berglund, Jenny Johansson, Christophe Sabas, Nicklas Augustsson, Sara Brennan, Catharina Nordeman #wcf #WorldChildForum #ChildrensRights #GCForum2024 #GCForum24 #GlobalChildForum2024 #YouthVoices #ESRS #Sustainability #CorporateResponsibility

Last week, co-workers within finance and sustainability from all Group companies met up at Bruksgården for the Lindéngruppen Finance and Sustainability Days 2024. The days included discussions on a number of joint topics such as management reporting, the new sustainability reporting legislation (CSRD), digitisation and internal control. Everyone engaged actively through the workshop focused on collaboration between finance and sustainability functions and on the development of our unique Value Creation Model. Additionally engaging was the creative session at KKAM (Ceramics, Art, Studio and Museum) where body and mind were activated through the assignment of making a tea bowl. Photo: Peter Kroon

Great News! Höganäs has been awarded the 2024 Environmental Strategy Award by Miljö & Utveckling, for their clear and ambitious sustainability strategy, firmly rooted in leadership and effectively implemented across the organisation. Congratulations to all the co-workers at Höganäs! Read more here: https://lnkd.in/dYHkxic2

We are delighted to announce that Lindéngruppen becomes the largest shareholder in the food tech company cReal Food AB. Food tech is a transformative industry with great development and growth potential, cReal has a unique and patented technology for the fractionation of oats, positioning it as a business-to-business supplier of nutritious and sustainable plant-based food ingredients. Jenny Lindén Urnes and Erik Urnes have been following cReal for a long time and first invested in the company in 2018. With this acquisition, Lindéngruppen broadens its scope within its strategy to own companies that are transformative by nature, operate in sectors of strong underlying growth and have the potential to become leaders in their niche. We look forward to working with the excellent team at cReal.   Peter Thorninger, Svante Andreen, Christian Hjortholm Steffensen, Göran Sjöstrand, Fabio Pedrazzi Read more here: https://lnkd.in/dc_F7z5G

Today we join the first day of this year's IDG Summit with the theme “The space in between”. The Summit is organised by the Inner Development Goals (IDG) initiative, a non-profit research project focused on developing the capabilities, qualities and skills needed to achieve the UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Lindéngruppen has been a supporting partner to the IDG initiative since 2021. For more information about IDG: https://lnkd.in/dj-_pSgb #partnership #IDGsummit24 #IDG

This week, we joined Global Child Forum’s annual Partner Advisory Board meeting in Stockholm. Global Child Forum bring together global leaders from business, civil society, academia and government in order to spur action for social change around children’s rights, and Lindéngruppen has been a partner since 2016. A number of important topics regarding how business impact children was discussed and whilst some businesses have a direct impact on children, all businesses have an indirect impact on children in their value chain and by the simple fact that many of the people working in business also are parents.

Lindéngruppen company Beckers Group inaugurated its FutureLab in Liverpool, UK, last week. This state-of-the-art facility will drive the development of the next generation of coil coatings. The new building effectively doubles the capacity of Beckers’ long-term development department, enhancing the company’s ability to make more sustainable coatings. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/dEtFCYiJ

Last week our Chair Jenny Lindén Urnes and CEO Fabio Pedrazzi had the privilege to meet with the dynamic Beckers North America team, as well as visit a strategic partner in Indiana. The road ahead is exciting! Beckers Group brings innovation and is committed to grow with its key customers in the US. Later in the week they both attended a Colart Board meeting at the North American HQ in New Jersey. Customer visits in New Jersey were insightful, as always, and what made this trip even more special was the stop at the Manufacturer's Village; the vibrant art residency in East Orange NJ, created by Colart. Great days with Christophe Sabas, Jared Ireland & team, Romain Guinier & team, Magdalena Gerger, Jean-Francois de Saussure, Ellen Lindén-Urnes and all customers. Thank you all for a fruitful week in the US.