Valeris has acted as financial advisor to Förskolan Olympen's owner Roland Johansson in the sale to ThorénGruppen, one of Sweden's largest privately owned education companies. Olympen operates three preschool units and one compulsory school unit in Stockholm municipality, with the opportunity to start three more units in the near future. Olympen was founded in 1994 and was one of the pioneers in independent school operations in Sweden. Today Olympen has sales of approximately SEK 60 million with good profitability.

In a broad process where several players showed great interest, the choice ultimately fell on the ThorénGruppen, which with its broad platform has a good opportunity to develop Olympens´ operations further.

"Since we have run Olympen within the family for almost 28 years, it feels very good to be able to pass on to a new owner who shares many of the values we have built up and we wish ThorénGruppen all the best in the future."

- Roland Johansson, CEO and owner of Olympen.

“In an environment characterized by challenges, including in the school sector, we are pleased with the great interest in Olympen, which enabled a good solution for companies and owners. We look forward to following ThorénGruppens future development with Olympen. ”

- Håkan Berntsson, Partner at Valeris.

For further information please contact:

Håkan Berntsson, Founding Partner                       Johan Simonsson, Founding Partner,
Valeris Advisory AB                                                     Valeris Advisory AB
Telefon: +46 707 59 77 00                                         Telefon: +46 706 26 72 38
E-post: hakan.berntsson@valeris.se                      E-post: johan.simonsson@valeris.se