Other Wallenberg-controlled companies with option schemes in the works include Electrolux, SKF Group and Stora.
The fate of Mr Wallenberg, who was detained by Soviet troops in January 1945, is unclear.
Mr Wallenberg has already been given honorary citizenship in the US, Israel, Hungary and Canada.
The true figure may be far lower, but Wallenberg's personal impact was hugely significant.
People may have carried different titles in 1944, but people like Wallenberg had supporters within the institutions.
She built a new life in California, but she always remembered Raoul Wallenberg and her experience in Hungary.
Peter Wallenberg, Jacob's father, became Investor's chairman in the 1980s and transformed it into a diversified investment company.
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Raoul Wallenberg was a diplomat in Nazi-occupied Hungary, and provided Jews with protective passports and shelter in diplomatic buildings.
He told Australian broadcaster ABC that Mr Wallenberg actively negotiated to save Hungarian Jews from execution and deportation.
Frank Vajda, a Australian professor, said Mr Wallenberg saved his life when he was a young boy in Hungary.
Mr Wallenberg is thought to have disappeared in Soviet custody after the war.
Employing a combination of courage, creativity, and chutzpah, Wallenberg went to work immediately.
After all, it was not long ago that even the house of Wallenberg came perilously close to losing its bank.
"I owe everything I've done in my life to Australia and I owe my life to Raoul Wallenberg, " he said.
Amid so many missteps responding to the Holocaust, sending Wallenberg to Hungary was one of the things we got right.
When Wallenberg saw that the documents were saving lives, he persuaded other diplomatic missions in Budapest to issue them as well.
For the past 15 years, that restraint has hardly been tested, since the chairman has been the family's chieftain, Peter Wallenberg.
In almost every action he took, Wallenberg vastly exceeded his diplomatic orders.
Yet the outcome of Marcus Wallenberg's boldest technology investment is still uncertain.
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Electrolux, a maker of household appliances and, like Saab, part of the Swedish Wallenberg family's industrial empire, is a big investor in Hungary.
Nasdaq has the agreement of the OMX board and several major shareholders, including the powerful Wallenberg family, which owns 11% of the business.
In 1917 Knut Wallenberg set up the first, and biggest, of the charitable foundations that have become repositories for most of the family's wealth.
During the second world war, Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat, saved thousands of Jews from the Nazi gas chambers and Sweden also sheltered Danish Jews.
It has given Sweden a foreign minister, a Davis Cup player and Raoul Wallenberg, a hero of the second world war who rescued Hungarian Jews.
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Percy Barnevik, Sweden's best-known manager, is now running the Wallenberg empire.
In his first season he formed a lethal partnership with Patrik Wallenberg and replicated that last year when teaming up with Dan Tessier and Marc Levers.
The first and biggest of these foundations was set up in 1917 by childless Knut Wallenberg as a tax-saving way to keep the family wealth together.
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En 2012 se conmemora el centenario del nacimiento de Wallenberg.
On the other hand, ABB is one of many companies under the umbrella of Sweden's Wallenberg family, who control, directly and indirectly, over 40% of the Swedish stock market's capitalization.
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