Malmöruns on a handful of strong industries. If you’re job-hunting or weighing a move, here’s where the opportunities (and the big-name employers) are.
Top industries & employers
Games & interactive
Massive Entertainment (Ubisoft), King, Sharkmob, Tarsier Studios, Ubisoft Malmö
Malmö has an unusually deep games cluster for a city of 360,000 — Massive built The Division and the Avatar game here, and the studios recruit internationally as a matter of routine. It is the sector most likely to hire you into Malmö in English.
Food & agri-tech
Oatly, Orkla Foods Sverige, Findus, Lantmännen
Oatly is headquartered in Malmö and the surrounding Skåne plain is Sweden's agricultural heartland, which is why plant-based food, packaging and ingredient companies cluster here rather than in Stockholm.
Cross-border logistics & the strait
Copenhagen Malmö Port, Öresundsbron, DSV, Trelleborg AB
Copenhagen Malmö Port has been a single company operating both cities' harbours since 2001 — a genuinely binational institution, and a fair emblem of how much of the local economy assumes the strait is not a border.
Life sciences (Medicon Valley)
Novo Nordisk, Lundbeck, Ferring, AstraZeneca, Camurus
Medicon Valley spans the strait, with most of the large pharmaceutical employers on the Danish side and the research infrastructure on the Swedish one. For a scientist in Malmö, the realistic job market is bilingual and binational.
Research infrastructure & universities
MAX IV, European Spallation Source, Lund University, Malmö University
MAX IV is the world's brightest synchrotron light source and the European Spallation Source is being built next to it, both in Lund — about eleven minutes by train from Malmö C. Between them they are the largest research investment in Sweden's history.
Construction & real estate
Skanska, Peab, Wihlborgs, MKB Fastighets
Skanska was founded in Malmö in 1887 as Skånska Cementgjuteriet and the city's post-industrial rebuild — Västra Hamnen on the old Kockums shipyard site — is still the reference case Swedish planners argue about.
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