The Families
Three Families in Partnership
We were founded in 2024 by three strong Swedish industrial families: the Rune & Johan Andersson family, who run Mellby Gård AB; the Bernt Ivarsson family, which manages Profura AB; and the Santhe Dahl family – all families and individuals who complete each other and are genuine entrepreneurial families.
Their combined knowledge, experience, and shared view on business lays the foundation for something unique: a family-centered parent company where drive and ambition go hand in hand with down-to-earth leadership and close collaboration with the people behind the daughter companies.
We’re a small group of down-to-earth entrepreneurs that all share the same values. We complete each other well and have experience managing several different parts and phases of companies’ development, for example, growth, small companies, global businesses, production, retail, service companies, and turnarounds.
Johan Andersson, CEO of Mellby Gård AB.
A Unique Network
Together, the founding families have many decades of experience in entrepreneurship within several areas of business and experience with a wide variety of business challenges. In other words, as a daughter company to Family Partnership Invest, your company becomes part of a large and helpful family that’s more than happy to share its knowledge and experience with you. That means that you become part of an extensive network of like-minded people to be inspired by and learn from.
Mellby Gård AB
In 1986, Rune Andersson bought the farm Mellby Gård in Sösdala and founded the family-owned Mellby Gård AB. Since 2013, Rune’s son, Johan Andersson, has been CEO of the company while Rune is chairman of the board.
The family’s Mellby model has three cornerstones that permeate their business and that they bring with them into Family Partnership Invest: longevity, co-ownership, and active ownership.
Profura AB
Bernt Ivarsson started doing business when he was only 12 years old, cutting down Christmas trees and selling them at the local square. With time, he leveled up, and in 1973, as a twenty-year-old, he founded Västkustens Skogs and continued to develop his entrepreneurship in the Swedish forest and wood industry.
Since 1994, he has run Profura, where four values permeate the business: family ownership, co-ownership, longevity, and industry independence.
Every business and every company is a unique craft; we’ve learned that in the school of life. We will care for and develop our companies based on their specific situation. And the person who hands over their life’s work to us can feel safe knowing that they will be able to continue to look their former colleagues in the eye when they run into each other.
Bernt Ivarsson, founder and owner of Profura AB.
Santhe Dahl
Santhe developed Vida AB from a local sawmill to a global supplier of refined products made from sustainable Swedish forests. He’s currently chairman of the company’s board, and in the spring of 2024, Santhe was awarded Guldkvisten for his versatile and strong leadership within Vida.
All of us have been part of developing smaller companies into significant actors within their respective fields. Our experiences allow us to combine entrepreneurship with the structure, or order, needed to be able to grow. And together, we have an extensive and qualified network that our companies can benefit from.
Santhe Dahl, CEO of Santhe Dahl Invest AB.