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Bofors

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Summary

Bofors is a business[1]. Bofors ranks in the top 3% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,291 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: Sweden[3]
  • Headquarters location: Karlskoga[4]
  • Chief executive officer: Egon Linderoth[5], Martin Ardbo[6], Per Ove Morberg[7]
  • Commons category: Bofors[8]
  • Industry: weapons industry[9]
  • Inception: January 1, 1873[10]
  • Dissolved, abolished or demolished date: 1991[11]
  • Parent organization or unit: BAE Systems AB[12]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Bofors[13]
  • Product or material produced: weapon[14]
  • Official name: BAE Systems Bofors[15]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Scheepvaartmuseum Wikidataproject[16]
  • Has works in the collection: Het Scheepvaartmuseum[17]
  • Merged into: Celsius AB[18]

Why It Matters

Bofors has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] Bofors is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

Related Entities

business Sweden

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Great Norwegian Encyclopedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Q132230989. Retrieved . n2t.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Product → —
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Scheepvaartmuseum Wikidataproject
    Topic's main category → Category:Bofors
    Has works in the collection → Het Scheepvaartmuseum
    + 22 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Official name: BAE Systems Bofors, official name from Store norske leksikon ([[Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/OKA bot 2|OKA bot task 2]])"
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