Netflix to Open Nordic Hub in Sweden

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Avicii’s legacy will live on in Sweden with one of the country’s popular arenas being renamed Avicii Arena. Avicii’s father made the announcement, about three years after the chart-topping Swedish DJ-producer who toured the world died.

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Naman Ramachandran Netflix will open a Nordics office in Stockholm, Sweden, that will serve as the hub for the region, in the second half of 2021. The streamer will also have a small team of employees based at a satellite office in Copenhagen, Denmark.Announcing this in a blog on Thursday, Lina Brouneus, Netflix director of acquisitions and co-productions, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, wrote: “Netflix has always felt at home in the Nordics.