Strategy

Our Board of Directors are experienced individuals with seasoned industry know-how. The subsidiaries develop their own business plans with jointly agreed annual and long-term targets, but the companies themselves maintain operational responsibility. Our companies work with annual targets rather than budgets, with a focus on earnings and profitability based on the Focus Model.

In the event that companies lack in-house skills, we find them the right expertise at the right time. This may concern areas such as pricing, marketing, exports and AI and help our companies to improve and strengthen key areas of their business more quickly.

We maintain a network of quality-assured, professional, external companies that offer services in accounting, IT and logistics. This provides our subsidiaries with the opportunity, but not an obligation, to benefit from the scale and scope offered by these players, which can raise quality and lower cost.

Acquiring companies is a complex process, in particular for smaller businesses. We offer support to our companies throughout the entire process of conducting an add-on acquisition – from identifying acquisition candidates to completing the acquisition.

We have created hubs in key markets that provide our companies with access to back-office solutions, making it easier and more cost-efficient to establish a presence in new geographic markets.

Our internal "Bergman & Beving University" makes it possible to develop our employees by strengthening skills and motivation, fostering contacts across the Group and providing them with the tools to understand our operational model.

We maintain internal network groups in which our companies exchange experience within areas such as sustainability, AI, financial governance and leadership. The aim is to increase our employees' skills and create a forum for exchanging experiences and interacting with colleagues.