Who owns Lind & Co?
Lind & Co is owned by Storytel (Sweden, Nasdaq First North Growth Market: STORY B).[1]
Storytel owns 70% of Lind & Co rather than all of it.
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Storytel Group Annual and Sustainability Report 2025, Storytel AB (publ), 26 March 2026. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Storytel AB (publ) (70% stake) reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇸🇪 Sweden, Stockholm
- Origin
- 🇸🇪 Sweden
- Founded
- 1999 by Kristoffer Lind
- Category
- Media & entertainment › Publishing › Book publishers
- Parent ticker
- Nasdaq First North Growth Market: STORY B
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Lind & Co
Lind & Co is a Swedish publisher of fiction, non-fiction and children's books, founded by Kristoffer Lind in 1999 and also publishing audiobooks in Norway, Finland, Poland, Iceland, Bulgaria, Italy and the Netherlands. Storytel Group lists acquiring a majority stake in 2021, and the 2025 subsidiary list shows Bokforlaget Lind & Co AB at 70%.
Ownership timeline of Lind & Co
Where Lind & Co sits in Storytel
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Storytel
Storytel controls 10 brands on Brandtree, 7 of them in media & entertainment.
Also in media & entertainment
- Bokfabriken (2012)
- Brombergs (1975)
- Gummerus (1872)
- Norstedts (1823)
- People's (2002)
- Raben & Sjogren (1942)
Other brands in book publishers, and who owns them
The 34 brands in book publishers on Brandtree belong to 9 owners. The largest is Lagardère, with 13; Storytel has 7.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Bragelonne | Lagardère | 🇫🇷 France |
| Clifford the Big Red Dog | Scholastic | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Macmillan Education | Springer Nature | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Dummies | Wiley | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Penguin Books | Bertelsmann | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Kids Can Press | Corus | 🇨🇦 Canada |
| Kadokawa Bunko | Kadokawa | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| HarperCollins | News Corp | 🇺🇸 United States |
About the owner: Storytel
Storytel is a publicly listed company headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, founded in 2005. Brandtree records 10 brands under its control, and it is listed as Nasdaq First North Growth Market: STORY B.
Storytel AB is a Stockholm audiobook and ebook streaming group whose annual report dates its journey to 2005, when Jonas Tellander and Jon Hauksson founded the Bokilur audiobook service in Sweden. Its report describes two business areas, Streaming (under the Storytel, Mofibo and Audiobooks.com brands) and Publishing, a group of book publishers acquired since 2013. Its 2025 report states 2.67 million paying subscribers. Its holding in Storytel AS in Norway is a 50% joint venture and is not listed as a brand here.
🇸🇪 Lind & Co and other Swedish brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 110 brands that began in Sweden. 48 of them (44%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Lind & Co is not one of them.
- Acast — Acast 🇸🇪
- Aftonbladet — Schibsted Media 🇳🇴
- & Other Stories — H&M Group 🇸🇪
- AXA — Lantmännen 🇸🇪
- Absolut — Pernod Ricard 🇫🇷
- Ahlgrens bilar — Cloetta 🇸🇪
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Lind & Co?
The parent company of Lind & Co is Storytel, a publicly listed company headquartered in Sweden.
Is Lind & Co Swedish?
Yes. Lind & Co originated in Sweden in 1999 and its owner, Storytel, is also headquartered in Sweden.
Is Lind & Co still owned by Storytel?
Yes. As of 4 October 2026, Lind & Co is still owned by Storytel (70% stake). The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Storytel Group Annual and Sustainability Report 2025 — Storytel AB (publ), Annual report, published 26 March 2026; retrieved 4 October 2026.
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