Södra (Skogsägarna) is a forestry cooperative based in Växjö, Sweden, and the largest in the country. Over 52,000 forest owners in southern Sweden are members, owning more than half of all privately owned forest in the area.
The group employs around 3,150 people in forestry management, environmental conservation, accounting, sales, and product development. Its three main business areas produce sawn and planed timber goods, paper pulp, and biofuel. In recent years, Södra has become such a large producer of electricity that it now generates more than it consumes. Founded in 1938 through the merger of five southern Swedish cooperatives, one of its founders, Gösta Edström, became Södra’s first CEO.
Learn more: https://www.sodra.com/sv/se/