Carl Bennet
Investments · Gothenberg
Net worth
$9.4B
Today
+$84M+0.90%Past month
−$298M−3.06%As of Nov 11, 2026, 1:50 PM EST
Swedish industrialist Carl Bennet controls five companies on the Stockholm stock exchange. His holdings include business group Lifco, medical supplies company Arjo and logistics company Elanders. He also controls medical products company Getinge, which Bennet and fellow investor Rune Andersson acquired from Electrolux in 1989. They ran the company together for nearly a decade before parting ways.
Net worth over time
Principal holdings
6 positions| Company | Industry | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
Lifco AB OMX NORDIC STOCKHOLM: LIFCO.B-SE | Finance & Investments | 70.2% | $6.6B |
Getinge OMX NORDIC STOCKHOLM: GETI.B-SE | Finance & Investments | 16.0% | $1.5B |
Private and other holdings | Finance & Investments | 5.5% | $521M |
Sandvik OMX NORDIC STOCKHOLM: SAND-SE | Finance & Investments | 4.3% | $409M |
Arjo AB OMX NORDIC STOCKHOLM: ARJO.B-SE | Finance & Investments | 2.9% | $273M |
Elanders AB OMX NORDIC STOCKHOLM: ELAN.B-SE | Finance & Investments | 1.0% | $97M |
Also known for
- Bennet has criticized Sweden's central-left government for not doing enough to battle youth unemployment in Sweden, and proposes a German-style apprentice system.
- In 2014 Bennet reintroduced Lifco to the public market at 28 times the price he paid for the company to take it private 14 years earlier.

