As recently as Tuesday announced Mellby Gård to Akelius Foundation would buy their holdings in Academia and Roger Akelius would thus become the largest owner in the educational company.
The stock plummeted on the announcement that Akelius did not want to see future dividends. A message that was criticized by Affärsvärlden’s editor-in-chief Peter Benson.
“If Roger Akelius wants to change Academedia’s business concept to become non-profit, it would be theft from the other owners. Mellby Gård has a heavy responsibility in that case,” wrote Benson.
Now Mellby Gård announces that the deal has been cancelled.
“Mellby Gård and Akelius Foundation agree not to complete the agreement according to which Akelius Foundation would acquire Mellby Gård’s entire holding in AcadeMedia,” the company writes in a press release.
The agreement was published by Mellby Gård on February 13 and is canceled today, February 18.
“The initiative for this was taken by Mellby Gård who asked the Akelius Foundation for permission to back out of the agreement, which the Akelius Foundation then allowed. The shares in AcadeMedia thus remain in Mellby Gård’s ownership.”
On Wednesday said Johan AnderssonCEO of Mellby Gård, to Afv that “We would not have sold our post if we did not feel secure with the new main owner.”
Today, he writes that “the ambition is to collaborate in other ways” and that they see “several opportunities ahead”.
