Lifco AB
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Sep 29, 2026
Ep 17. Lifco: Swedish Serial Acquirer, 275 Companies, 129%
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7:34Gautam BasuHOST
It's a family holding company.
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7:37Gautam BasuHOST
And by its own history, in 1995, Yetinga bought a dental company called LIC Care, which that history describes as the business that latter became Lifco.
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7:51Gautam BasuHOST
And in 1997, Carl Bennett AB also became a majority owner of the printing group Ellenders, which then bought 11 more Swedish companies over three years to become the largest graphics group in the Nordics.
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8:07Gautam BasuHOST
So by the late 1990s, Bennett had already run the same play more than once.
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9:12Gautam BasuHOST
40% sold to get focus.
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9:15Gautam BasuHOST
Most management teams can't exit 10% of revenue without a steering committee and a consultant.
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9:22Gautam BasuHOST
And then 2006, Lifco acquires its sister company, Zorb Industry, a diversified industrial group that Bennett's company had taken private in 1999.
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9:33Gautam BasuHOST
And that is the moment Lifco became what it is today, dental plus a long tail of industrial niches.