Member Companies

 

To read more about our member companies, click on the names and their company description will follow.

 

Three Crown Members

 

QlikTech Inc.

QlikTech was founded on the belief that business intelligence (BI) should be about business users. Traditional BI solutions have become bloated, complex software stacks, leaving users confused and frustrated. For 18 years, QlikTech has focused on simplifying decision making for business users across organizations. We pioneered new approaches to accessing, managing, and interacting with data. Our QlikView Business Discovery platform is recognized as a groundbreaking solution. Combined with a relentless focus on customer success and a vibrant, passionate user community, it’s no wonder more than 16,000 companies in over 100 countries use QlikView, with an industry-leading 96% satisfaction rate.

 

Two Crown Members

 

SCA Americas

SCA creates value by fulfilling the needs of customers and consumers in a spirit of innovation, through continuous efficiency enhancements and with a clear desire to contribute to sustainable development.

 

SCA is a global hygiene and paper company that develops and produces personal products, tissue, packaging solutions and forest products. SCA has sales in more than 100 countries under many strong brands

The Group develops, produces and markets personal care products, tissue, packaging, publication papers and solid-wood products, and has sales in more than 100 countries. In 2010, SCA had annual sales of SEK 109bn and about 45,000 employees.

 

 

One Crown Members

 

SKF USA Inc.

The SKF Group is the leading global supplier of products, customer solutions, and services in the business of rolling bearings and seals. The Group’s main competencies include technical support, maintenance services, condition monitoring and training. SKF also holds an increasingly important position in the market for linear motion products, as well as high precision bearings, spindles and spindle services for the machine tool industry, and is an established producer of bearing steel.

SKF was founded in 1907 and from the very beginning focused intensively on quality, technical development and marketing. The results of the Group’s efforts in the area of research and development have led to a growing number of innovations that has created new standards and new products in the bearing world.

 

 

Blue & Yellow Members

 

IKEA

IKEA offers a wide range of well-designed, functional home furnishing products at prices so low that as many people as possible will be able to afford them. This is the idea at the heart of everything IKEA does, from product development and purchases to how we sell our products in IKEA stores globally.

Anybody can make a good-quality product for a high price, or a poor-quality product for a low price. But to make good products at low prices, you need to develop methods that are both cost-effective and innovative. This has been the focus of IKEA since its beginnings in Småland, Sweden Maximizing the use of raw materials and production adaptation to meet people’s needs and preferences has meant that our costs are low. The IKEA way of doing things is to pass these cost savings on to you, our customers.

Apell & Detrick

Apell & Detrick believes in providing quality legal services at a fair and reasonable cost. The total combined experience of all the attorneys is more than 70 years. We are a general practice, serving both individuals and businesses. This law office is a full service firm that can handle the majority of your legal needs including matters in Criminal, Housing, Family, Supreme, Traffic, Civil, and small claims matters.

Carl Anderson Agency

Carl Anderson Agency represents process, pollution-control, and material-handling equipment manufacturers whose products and services offer process solutions of high quality and value to a wide range of the process and related industries:

  • chemical and petrochemical/petroleum
  • pharmaceutical and cosmetic
  • food and beverage
  • plastics
  • waste-treatment

The Agency is staffed by degreed engineers experienced in process and product research, process development, and plant operations and start-up to serve these industry groups.

Our mission is to collaboratively and cooperatively seek and propose the highest-quality process solutions  and services to provide clients with cost-effective solutions to process, pollution, and handling problems.

 

International Industrial Design

International Industrial Design

Nordic Nutrition Inc.

Scandinavian Touch

The best online resource for Scandinavian gifts and collectibles, offering a wide assortment of items from Swedish Wooden Clogs and crystal to Nyform Trolls, Rolf Lidberg Trolls, Dala Products, Tomte Collectibles. Kongetinn Pewter by Fjord Design Scandinavian Flatware, Scandinavian Books and Music and much more.

Thorp Reed & Armstrong

Thorp Reed & Armstrong is a premier regional law firm with offices located in Philadelphia; Pittsburgh; Wheeling, West Virginia; Wilmington, Delaware; and Princeton, New Jersey. Approximately 125 lawyers support a wide variety of clients’ needs. Since 1895, Thorp Reed attorneys have gained a reputation as lawyers who exemplify the profession’s best practices, and lawyers that other lawyers turn to when they need counsel. Businesses, financial institutions, contractors, public and governmental entities, healthcare and not-for-profit organizations of all sizes, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to the middle market and entrepreneurs, rely on Thorp Reed for quality legal services. Much has changed since our founders were preeminent figures in Pennsylvania. But the values that guided them remain our values today. At Thorp Reed we are proud to carry on a tradition of professional excellence, rigorous ethics, community involvement and, above all, dedication to our clients.

Whibco Inc.

Whibco Inc. was founded in 1841 and is America’s first producer of sand for use in the metal casting industry. Whibco owns about 12 thousand acres of land and reserves in Cumberland County, New Jersey, including mine permits on 7 different sites in Maurice River Township alone. Whibco operates an industrial and construction sand processing plant in Port Elizabeth (Maurice River Township). Today, Whibco produces a wide variety of industrial sands and fine construction aggregates.

Specops.

Specops Software is an international software vendor offering management products enhancing Active Directory and Group Policy based technology. The company was founded in 2001 and is privately held. The company´s customer base is spread over more than 2.600 customers in 47 countries. The HQ is located in Stockholm, Sweden and the North American HQ is located in Toronto, ON, Canada. They opened their american office in Philadelphia December 1, 2011.

 
 

Institutional Members

 

American Swedish Historical Museum

The American Swedish Historical Museum in South Philadelphia is the oldest Swedish Museum in the United States. Founded in 1926, the Museum has been dedicated to preserving and promoting Swedish and Swedish-American cultural heritage and traditions for more than 80 years. The Museum is a place where Swedes, Swedish-Americans, and people of all nationalities who appreciate Swedish contributions to history, art, architecture, music, science and technology can come together.

BA Associates

BA Associates specializes in the professional planning of corporate meetings and events as well as unique and creative marketing of businesses and their products and services. Personal attention is the cornerstone of BA Associates, Inc. As an independent planning company we provide the complete attention and service that each of our clients programs need and deserve.

The Global Interdependence Center

The Global Interdependence Center (GIC) is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based nonprofit organization with a global reach.

The mission is to encourage the expansion of global dialogue and free trade in order to improve cooperation and understanding among nation states, with the goal of reducing international conflicts and improving worldwide living standards.

With that focus driving work, GIC provides a forum for the exchange of divergent perspectives. GIC engages experts to identify emerging economic, social and political issues vital to the interdependent global community. GIC organizes country and region-specific meetings, conferences and briefings for educational and networking opportunities. GIC promotes global partnerships among governments, non-governmental organizations, corporations, businesses and academic and research institutions. GIC also prides itself on sharing its findings with policymakers and the press worldwide.

Partner Organizations

 

Swedish Colonial Society

The Swedish Colonial Society, founded in 1909, is the oldest Swedish historical group in the United States dedicated to preserving the legacy of the New Sweden Colony in America.

GPCC

The Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce is dedicated to promoting growth and economic development, advocating for sound public policy, and serving our members with outstanding programs and benefits. GPCC is the premier advocate of the region’s business community, representing members in 11 counties across three states with one voice.

Select Greater Philadelphia

Select Greater Philadelphia (Select) is an economic development marketing organization dedicated to attracting companies to Greater Philadelphia. Select assists companies interested in the region by providing detailed information about the 11-county area.