The Group

The group Bertegruppen AB consists of Berte Qvarn AB, SIA Glass AB, AB Hallands Frökontor and Berte Gård AB. All the companies are situated in Slöinge, except AB Hallands Frökontor, which is in the next village, Getinge.

The platform of the group is Berte Qvarn, existing since medieval times. The family Stenström ownership can be tracked down with certainty as far as to 1569. In 1985, the oldest son, Anders, took over as managing director of the mill after his father, Olof. As from 2009 Johan Bäcklund is the managing director of the mill.

Berte Gård is the farm, belonging to the mill by ancient tradition. Today, it stands as a sister company within the group organization and the managing director of the farm is Henrik Stenström, married into the family.

In 1962, the MD of the mill, Olof Stenström, started SIA Glass AB, then as a subsidiary company to the mill, but today a company of its own with Rolf Frid as CEO since 2007, former CFO and vice president of BERTEGRUPPEN AB and SIA Glass AB.

In 1987, Berte Qvarn bought AB Hallands Frökontor from Weibulls. The main reason was that the mill wished to increase the silo capacity and through this secure delivery of bread grain directly from the local farmers. Today, it has been re-organized and Hallands Frökontor stands as a sister company to Berte Qvarn, with Joakim Lavesson (HF Machine Division) and Johan Nilsson (HF Crop and Grain) as CEO in each company.

Together with the BERTEBOS Foundation, the two brothers Gudmund and Per Stenström and their brother Anders three children stand as owners of the group.