Month: August 2014
Member Spotlight: Malin Backlund about her new role as SACC-Texas Marketing and Organizational Strategy Trainee
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Malin Backlund just arrived in Dallas, Texas to start her five month internship with SACC-Texas. She will be living in Dallas but working as Marketing and Organizational Strategy Trainee for all of SACC-Texas. What attracts you to Texas? There is a very interesting business climate, both from a global and […]
Texas Chili in the streets of Stockholm – The food truck culture has reached Sweden
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In Texas, food trucks have been around for a long time and in the last few years they have become more popular. Food trucks can be found almost everywhere; from parks to outside big sport events. In Sweden, food trucks are a fairly new concept, first starting out in the […]
Meet Astrid Marklund, Consul General of Sweden in Houston, SACC-Texas & SACC-Houston Board Member
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Astrid Marklund, her husband Soren and their two sons moved to Waco, Texas, in 1985. Around the same year direct flights stopped between Sweden and Houston. Back then Sweden and Houston had similar large industries such as shipping industry and the chemical industry. They moved to Waco where Soren was […]
Marcus Ericsson – Sweden’s new Formula 1 star is coming to Austin
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Sweden hasn’t had a Formula 1 driver in 23 years since Stefan Johansson did his last race in July 1991. Now it is time for the next generation of Swedish race car drivers to step up with Marcus Ericsson being one of three rookies for the 2014 season. He signed […]