Sigma AB is a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 consultancy and IT

Information technology

Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...

 company. The Sigma Group is divided into two business areas: IT & Management, and Information Logistics.

Sigma AB was founded by Swedish entrepreneur Dan Olofsson

Dan Olofsson

Dan Olofsson, born 1950, is a Swedish entrepreneur and philanthropist, living in the southern city of Malmö, Sweden. After studying at Lund University for an M.Sc. degree in engineering in 1974, Mr. Olofsson began working in different technology consultancy companies including VBB and Skandiaconsult...

 in 1986 as a technical consultancy company, and was introduced on the Stockholm Stock Exchange

Stockholm Stock Exchange

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 in 1997. The company is currently listed on the Small Cap list of the Stockholm Stock Exchange. The Sigma Group has 1,200 employees and its turnover in 2009 was 130 million euro

Euro

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The company won the prize of Dataföreningens Diamant for being the IT company with Best Understanding of Customer's Needs. They support the South Africa based Star for Life project, aimed at preventing the spread of hiv/aids.