Tullar, geopolitik och en inblick i hur ett svenskt företag påverkas i praktiken?
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The podcast episode delves into American administration, focusing on economic policies, trade wars, and the impact of tariffs. Trump's tax cuts, trade policies, and market uncertainties are discussed, highlighting challenges for companies and investors. The conversation transitions to Enkom, a company specializing in tilt rotators for construction machines. Enkom's CEO, Krister Blomgren, explains the company's growth, international presence, and product benefits. The discussion touches on Enkom's resilience during crises, adaptation to market challenges, and the importance of strategic business approaches. The conversation underscores the significance of understanding global economic dynamics, adapting to changing market conditions, and maintaining a strategic approach to business growth amidst uncertainties.
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Hello and welcome back!
It's Friday again and we have a new episode of Muste Podde Maxa Podde.
My name is Daniel Jungsdomhoney and I'm the leader of this podde.
We have talked a lot of theory during the last few weeks, and maybe not until the last months.
It has been a full focus on the different types of American administration.
We have gone through the American economy.
We can see that the US has a very high debt.
You have a budget under your shadow.
Donald Trump has chosen to lower the taxes for many in the US.
You have set the US first.
As a leader, we have made a resolution that states that the US must lower its taxes.
With that, you can't have the same kinds of defense duties as before.
Europe, for example, must have increased responsibility for its investments and security.
This means that countries like Germany, Sweden, and so on,
are making very big investments, or planning very big investments in security.
This doesn't just mean bombs, it also means building infrastructure,
such as roads, railways, ports, security services, chains, and so on.
These investments go up to a very high level.
In the US perspective, it means that they must invest less money in security in Europe
and focus more on their own economy.
After that, we have the Tullars. This much-known press conference where Trump goes through all countries' new Tullars.
We want to say how much more will the US take into account products imported into the US.
This leads to more or less what we call a Tull-Chaos.
This leads to a very big insecurity around what this would actually mean.
These investments have changed a little bit from what the US has created.
The consequences of this have been that it has been very hard to know how the individual companies are affected.
Then we get volatility, we get market fall, we don't really know how the companies will be affected by these Tullars,
so we don't really know how many companies will benefit.
Then it will be very difficult to determine what a company is worth.
We have talked a lot about the company's value in the short-term perspective and the long-term perspective.
Then you can say that a company's value is almost 100% of future profits converted into a new value.
Then there will be news that makes the company seem to be able to earn more money.
Then you value the company, then they go up a little bit.
Then there will be news that makes the company seem to be able to earn a little less money and then the company's value falls for future profits.
The Tullars contribution to this is that it has been a little uncertain how the individual companies are actually affected.
With that, you can say that many investors are drawing a curve towards themselves.
You won't be so eager to buy new shares until it becomes a clearer situation.
There are people who are a little worried to sell because you think that this will affect negatively.
And in the environment where many people might want to sell shares and want to buy, we will get big costs starting.
And in some sense, we got almost 20% in a couple of days, full of the Swedish-American stock market.
Then there will be a little new information about the stock market has gone up again.
What has happened now is that we also go into what is called a "report period".
And the company reported their profit development quite simply by quarter.
We have quarter reports.
And now we have come into the quarter report.
The company has started to report how they are affected by the Tullars and how they may think that they will affect the Tullars.
And with that, it becomes a little clearer what the effect will be for the individual company.
And with the addition of that, we have actually invited a Christian Blomgren to the pod today.
He is CEO of VD for the company Enkom.
And the company Enkom makes such an interesting product as a tilt rotator.
And you can say that it is a product you put on a gravel machine.
Longest before the gravel machine starts, you put a product that makes you can change the angle of the shovel so that you can dig in 45 degrees.
And you can do a lot of different types of digging, so that you could not do earlier.
You can also use the gravel machine in a new way and show.
Christian will describe this a little closer.
But for those of you who are still a little unsure and think that this is a little subtle what Enkom actually does.
So I suggest a little search on the internet so you can see how the product actually looks.
And since they have a product that is used in the gravel industry, the product will be used when building roads,
railway roads, forest use and so on.
You sell this product over large parts of the world.
You are an additional company, you grow pretty fast.
You have worked in the US, Germany, Holland and so on.
Which makes it very difficult for Enkom to understand what is going on in the world.
For example, you have to sell the gravel machine.
The production of your product is also difficult because you import or put together products from different parts of the world,
which in turn seem to be affected by these different trade wars.
And Enkom and Christian will be our practical case today to understand how the theories we have talked about before now affect and look at reality.
So I think this will be a super exciting episode in all ways and ways.
Because there is something like that when we talk about a theory at an aggregated level.
You can break it down and look at it.
How does it affect different companies? Is it like this as we say? Or is there something else that we should take into account?
I can spoil the conclusion already now that our theories seem to fit pretty well.
In the short term, there is a little uncertainty around how the tolls will actually hit.
Investors may stop or wait a little bit to make investments.
But the long-term case of major investments in Europe, for example, is there.
We have talked here about the fact that in the short term, there is often a lot of uncertainty,
and there will be a lot of action courses and so on.
Because in some sense, we do not really know what is going on.
With a fairly short time interval, there will be a little more information security.
Now we are in that situation.
And in a slightly longer term, and this is what seems to affect the budget over time,
that you get your 7-8-9% and so on.
It is about a little uncertainty.
Whatever happens, the company can adapt to that,
to its more or less excellent benefits.
And that is why we are going to be a little longer-term on the budget.
I want to remind you that before we say,
invite Krister to the studio,
if nothing of what we say in this podcast should be understood as an individualized advice,
you do not know anything about what you are listening to.
And all the value papers, actions that are found are connected with risks.
And of that, you should always be careful when investing in these periods that we are in now.
Manifest the risks in a fantastic way.
I also think you should be super confident when you do your needs analysis.
So it's easy to get to the point, how should my savings look?
What are my goals?
And how long do I have for those goals?
So that you can structure your investment portfolio in the right way.
Then these periods with a short-term uncertainty,
and support budget and so on,
much, much easier to get through.
And you can also add that all professional investors, more or less,
they always talk to someone, an investment committee, a colleague or something else,
before you make a change in your portfolio.
You document the change and so on in a very reasonable way.
And that's because you don't want to make a single mistake in your investments.
And as a private person, you should note down a bit of that and think a bit the same way.
I'm going to find someone to talk to before I make a change in my portfolio.
I'm going to define my goal and I'm going to write down why I make different changes.
This process leads many times to the fact that you may not do all the changes you have thought about.
But when you do them, you're a bit more on the note of why you take the initiative.
With that said, tell me if you have any advice before you do something.
We are in an uncertain period, so be careful.
Now we're going from theory to practice, by inviting Krister Blomgren,
WD Enkom.
Join us, honey.
Welcome to Maxa Podden, Krister.
Thank you very much.
Krister, have you ever had a pod before?
I have a few pods, some local, and then there were some other pod that I don't remember exactly.
They didn't make a big difference. We hope that this pod makes a little bigger difference.
We have talked a lot in this pod about the American education policy,
as you can call it. Donald Trump went to the election to set up the USA in the first room.
And that has had consequences during the year, in the form of the beginning of January-February-March.
The American representative in Europe said that Europe must have increased responsibility for its own security.
And it didn't last long before the press conference was held.
It was the global "tull" package.
With that, the world became more or less insecure.
And it became difficult to judge how this would affect the individual business.
Krister, you are here now because you released a report for Enkom yesterday.
And you have to say a few nasty numbers and updated data.
We will ask you a bit about that. But first of all, Krister, what is Enkom?
Enkom is a company that was founded in 1990 by Stiga Engström.
We do, as you can say, a trade to the farmers.
We do trade with our full-time fast parties.
You can do so much more with the farmers than you could do before.
Effectively, you do your job 95% faster.
You can take advantage of the labor force outside the machine.
You can also take advantage of other machines in that way.
We simply make the machine a food processor that can do jobs that they couldn't do earlier.
And that's why the machine is the fastest growing machine in the so-called yellow industry.
What is the yellow industry for something?
Construction and construction machines, if you put it that way.
You can suddenly dig a lot of different angles.
Yes, you can dig on the sides of the machine, back and forth, to a circle.
It leads to that you don't have to move the machine as much.
You can work much faster. You can do finesse digging, you can do tough digging.
You can replace tools, you can take pallets and chargers, or chargers that come or chargers.
And you can put on a vibrato plate that you normally put on a gubbe that you can hold in there and dig.
You can do a lot more with our full-time fast parties.
If you have a gray machine, are you partly between a shovel and an arm?
Yes, as I said, it's like handling.
If you have a plastered handle, that's what it is like before.
And then you get something that is actually even better than the handle.
The more you throw, the more difficult it is with your own handle.
It takes a stop after a throw.
But you get the same function as you get with the handle.
You can do so much more in that way.
The countertop is big in the north, where 90% of all gray machines have a countertop.
But in the world it's a small product, so it's a classic Swedish invention that will come out in the world.
And when you talk about efficiency improvements, you can say from the system before these rotators.
What does it actually mean? What does the improvement consist of?
I look forward to the fact that earlier you had a gray machine, and then there was a guy or a girl with spades around and around
and helped to dig a little here and there and so on.
That type of person has been changed, or disappeared, you can say, in the same way.
What are the changes that are happening?
After you don't have to move the machine, after you can dig all the directions,
and you can just stay with the machine there and dig all the time,
then you do the job, and through the cut it's a bit different.
Some things are in the higher part, but through the cut you do the job 25% faster with the gray machine.
Then, as you say, you can replace one or two guys or girls with spades.
And you can also replace, if you look in Sweden, what is called skidsteer or bobcat,
there is almost no such thing as replacement, and it has replaced the machine.
So return on investment is very fast, but if you just look at it 25% faster,
then about nine months are just on that thing.
Can you replace a guy with spades?
Yes, it's about 12 months, so you can feel it in the end, if you buy one more totator.
If you can replace another machine, then it's day one.
So for us, it's about getting the world to believe in what we're saying,
and prove it to them that it is, and then it will be,
and with the work force that is out there in the world,
you have to effectively see and make it more productive.
So we are a little convinced that it will take off.
Then it is perhaps the most conservative branch in the world,
so it doesn't make it super easy to successfully overcome all of them.
And even some countries, this business model where they pay per hour,
and then we say, you will do the job for seven hours instead of ten hours,
you should just get paid for seven hours,
then you start changing the business model and pay for the job instead and so on.
So there is a little resistance for it to take off,
but with the hard-earned money that will stand up especially in the western world,
it will come.
Can you describe how you have grown the distribution?
Where are you selling today, and how do you sell this totator?
We have gone a lot before 2012,
so it was 90% of our income from the Nordic countries.
And last year, it was only 34% of the income from the Nordic countries.
So we are opening up our own totes in these countries,
because we need to have those companies that go around
and explain to the customers how they can do business in a different way
and do it in a better way.
And then with mass demo days and everything like that,
then we sell it through the distribution led,
or the cat distribution, or the Volvo distribution, and so on.
Then we have a lot of collaboration with OM,
i.e. grain machine manufacturers, such as Caterpillar, Volvo,
Kobelco, Litachi, Matsuura, and the others,
on the preparation machines, and so on.
Today we have our own companies in 16 countries in the world,
from Japan to the United States and Canada.
And then we have a number of European countries.
What are the biggest countries?
Europe is a big group with the Nordic countries.
80% of our income comes from Europe and the Nordic countries.
And Sweden is still the biggest country in the world.
But France has high income, the Germans have grown very quickly.
The Netherlands has had a high penetration in,
where we have now passed what we call a tipping point,
if you are a product of fusion curvy,
that you need to pass 20% of the population out of the machines
because it will start to become a new standard.
That's when it really starts to take off.
And it will become a demand from companies like Skanska,
NCCA, and others in Europe,
that in our workplace you have to have a till-trotator,
otherwise it's not effective enough.
So it's important to increase the penetration rate
in these countries all the time.
When did you find a conda in Krise?
We found each other in 2008.
I worked at Deloitte,
and worked a lot with international companies,
And Stiga Engström had started to open up companies
in Germany and England,
and I had been given the evidence
that they needed some more qualified forces
to save the economy.
So I came in as a consultant,
worked as a consultant for two years,
and then we were appointed at the end of 2009
as an economic director or CFO.
And then in the summer of 2011
we had a VD on one conda for the whole group.
If I think back, you came in 2008
and you have worked on it today.
At that time, as a fellow bus driver,
we have noticed that we have gone through the financial crisis.
In principle, you will come in when the financial crisis is over,
and then we have had a Euro crisis,
a Greek crisis,
we have had a degrade of the USA,
we have had Brexit,
and we have had Covid,
and what else can I say?
The financial crisis,
or the security crisis,
if you want to guide us through these years,
how has it been that the company has grown
under these conditions?
Have you faced any major challenges?
Yes, the crisis can be good
for the company as well.
You often start to think about new things in the crisis,
and what we have actually done in the company
with some major crises,
have we chosen to sit down on these crises?
For example,
we took the other generation to the trotate
under the financial crisis / Euro crisis,
which we launched between 2011 and 2014,
the other generation.
And there we had incredibly good feedback
when I got the technical lift
compared to our competitors.
We had a number of years where we grew very well,
started to come out in the world also a little bit,
and that was actually from 2014,
we started with Frankrike,
and then we took new countries all the time,
we had Laktyskland and England,
actually normal,
under the financial crisis,
because it costs too much money
from 2014
we started this international journey
outside of the north.
We have grown a lot in the north,
we have taken a lot of market share
with the fact that we have this technical height,
so we became very strong,
and it has been the heart and lungs
that have pumped,
that we have had the opportunity
to go into new markets all the time.
Then we built up,
just because it would not cost too much
to go into new markets,
we made sure that the sales teams
would be extended to sales and services support.
All other functions were central,
such as economy, IT, market share,
everything was central,
in a way that it is quite easy
to start small and start to build more of these.
And the crisis is hard,
but with COVID,
it was very uncomfortable
what to do with it,
but it was just a crisis
for two or three months or something,
so then it turned into a crazy question,
and it led to supply chain problems,
but there were no problems with sales,
there were problems with the future,
things and things,
and then there came the inflation
and the high rates,
so everything stopped building.
There were also many of these countries,
where the birth rate question came up,
"Why are we building?"
"Why are we building today?"
For one generation,
half the population came,
as they discussed in Korea and Japan,
for example.
So we ran through a lot of things,
you know,
if you got knocked out,
you got a lot of pictures,
there are a lot of interesting questions
and angles you need to learn,
in respect to the country.
And then there are all people,
so basically you can sell me the same thing,
but you need to tweak it a little differently
depending on the challenges of respect to the country.
Could you say that a little bit of crisis
is the natural condition?
There are always a lot of things going on.
You can actually say that,
so then you usually get some calm years in between,
but now it feels like
since COVID it hasn't been a normal year.
We usually say now when we go back and look,
but if we go back to the last normal year,
I would say 2019.
That's the last normal year we can find them.
If we were to talk about the Trump administration
and the development of the Tullar,
increased security in Europe and so on,
how does that affect you?
And how does that affect you in the future too?
Well, it has affected us
but it creates a new moment of uncertainty again.
I would like to say that we
have a war-like crisis that we have learned to live with in some way,
and now we are creating a new world vision or something.
So we think it's positive that Europe
maybe will be tougher,
stand a little more on your own legs.
We are not so bad, I think,
as everyone says here in Europe,
I think we are actually pretty good at a lot of things
so I think it will be good in the long term,
in the short term, you can create some words.
In the US we became these tariffs,
it became like a wet filter,
because you got a little bit of information
on what these Tullars really mean.
We are going to count all the prices with like 25%.
We did that,
and now we have adapted,
when we have tried to get more data
around the Tullars,
and at first the American service men
were able to help guide us,
and we have actually been able to do that,
we have created a number of weeks ago here in the US,
we have now been able to do that with new tariffs,
and we were able to do that,
so we have counted them.
It will not be a great effect for us,
but in the short term it will be somewhere around
5% higher than the price we need to do
because of these tariffs.
And in the long term,
in the short term, there will be some storms,
and so in the US, absolutely,
but in the long term, it is good for us,
everything that has become more expensive
has to be less effective,
and more productive.
So the big machines have become more expensive,
and it will lead to the need to look at
and make it more effective.
I hope that in the long term,
we will see that as a hacky curve,
or we will see how long the tariffs are there,
and everything like that, we do not know that either,
but our customers are very strong Trump supporters.
It is not possible to have a discussion
about whether it is good.
Yes, exactly.
If you think about it, how did you already know
what the tariff would be,
did you get it as a cost-effect,
what will the price be against the customer,
or did you get information on it in any other way?
No, we got to look at that data
that came up all the time,
and try to calculate what is inside this,
because it is the steel price
that we are looking at,
about 25% on steel.
And then it is not on the extension
we have made on the steel,
but it is the original steel price
that will be 25% tariff on.
And there, when you fully understood that,
it took a week or something like that.
And then I got to think about
how much steel we have in our products,
how much is that in weight,
and how much is that on sale,
we had to find a law that
the steel costs this,
so it was a difference if it was the original steel,
or the original steel,
or you understand.
And then it came to this,
on everything that is not inside the steel,
of course it was 20%,
then the young people are 13,
so it was just 10%.
So then we got to think about
the pieces and find this cut,
and then we will,
we sell a lot of packages,
but it will be that
it will be lost at the time,
we will take it back to the carousel
to find when we put the cut price on sale.
So you report,
what do you say, you break up your product
and report the parts of the product
to the American authorities?
Yes.
It sounds a bit advanced.
Yes, we have to do that
in that way,
because they contain
different steel products.
And then you get
a cut cut increase,
and that was about 5%.
Yes.
And what you say,
the cost increase,
it is not seen in the long-term effects,
lower the demand,
for example, or lower your margin,
but you just put it on the point.
We put it on,
because we went out,
we were pretty fast,
because if it would be
20%,
and the steel bits,
we would have said,
we have 25%.
So it became,
psychologically it became good,
we have 25%,
because now everyone thinks it is only 5%,
that it was not so dangerous.
If we had started to say it was 5%,
we would have complained,
but it was not so dangerous.
So it actually means that
the effective cuts,
which actually become cuts,
may in some way not be as dangerous
as it was experienced at first glance,
but that it is a bit of a tricky process to handle there.
Do you see in the future that these cuts
will be existing under a long time?
It is what is most difficult to say.
I mean,
he wants to be
a deal maker,
and I think
there will certainly be
a certain pressure
that there will be
zero
cuts between Europe
and the US.
So I would guess
that there will be no life.
I do not think so.
There is
China in the song,
if you can guess.
So,
I think that
I do not think so for a long time
that we will have cuts on our products,
I do not think so.
But in the end,
as I understand you,
you do not see it as a huge problem
if everything that is imported
becomes a bit more expensive,
then it becomes a much more expensive way for the users.
And then they have to find a new way
to do things.
So products and solutions that mean
efficiency profit can be prioritized
and get higher after the question.
The oil is very large,
and then it becomes much more expensive.
And therefore,
you have to look at how you are going to do this
in a smarter way.
And if there is inflation
of the tariff,
and those who can save better
than me,
then it leads to higher wages
for them.
And then it becomes even more
important to do business
in that way.
There have been other important questions
in this case.
There have been quite big value changes.
And the dollar has weakened
a lot,
the relative price.
How does that affect you?
Of course,
it affects us as well.
And the advantage is
that the costs of wages
in the US
goes down
in terms of the economy.
And as long as
the US is a small market
with a small contribution
if you have to express yourself
on the result,
then
the dollars we use
in the big part of the US,
it will not be a great effect for us in that way.
But when you sell
your rotators to the US,
then you produce them
in Swedish crowns,
and you deliver them in dollars.
How can I say that?
Yes.
Our daughter company in the US
buys them in dollars.
So we get dollars
for our Swedish production company.
And we get that, of course.
But we have a Swedish
price list in the background.
So they buy it
for a higher dollar cost than
what it was before.
So in that way,
the country is in that way.
But
we have to look at how long
our effect is.
We don't want to change
the price list
before we have seen
where the dollar actually is.
Now it has taken a lot,
and very quickly down.
We may have a disappointment
that it is moving up again.
Because it has
a pretty big bearing
on inflation in the US.
So in any case,
a dollar fluctuation is
a bit annoying in this situation
for the Americans.
I can think of that in a few scenes.
If we release the US,
then we can say that
the current crisis,
which has had a lot of focus
in recent times,
has both good and bad sides
for you,
but in the bottom,
let's look at
what came before this.
That you are talking about increased security
in Europe,
and with that huge infrastructure,
big security package,
which many times are about infrastructure
subsidies, roads, trains,
ports, and so on.
Especially from Germany,
which took a pretty big step
and announced subsidies.
But later on, even Sweden,
which says that we are going to invest
in the future, how do you see
that this affects you?
That will be positive for us.
Germany is
the fastest growing
market for us in Europe.
We had
this big mess,
the biggest mess
in the building,
in Munich,
and
there was a lot of
infrastructure everywhere.
They changed from
just having
an age-old party
that is now going to the
entire solution
with territories.
And then Germany
put so much on infrastructure,
railways,
and the construction,
and such things.
It will be super positive for us.
Europe is a key market for us,
and where the volumes are already
quite high.
If you get that help,
then you can
really deal with things.
And Germany is
the biggest European market
for machines.
This is a good year,
35,000 grams of machines in Germany.
And if we are able to do that,
then it can really be
an interesting and good growth for us.
How do you see in the future
that this is going to be played out?
Do you see in the future
that you are getting a relatively
moving order, or do you see it as
something that is going to come up?
I think that
people are quite simple reasons.
Do you see that
it looks pretty good here?
I have a job today,
and with these packages that will come
they will not come from
2026 again in Germany.
But then you feel confident
that I will have a job
next year.
I dare to invest in a new machine,
I dare to invest in a new technology.
So in that way I think
there will be a good effect
of conversion in that way.
And that is what we have seen
in Sweden, among other things,
also here.
These policies that have been
led to
a more positive view
among our customers.
They needed to change machines,
they could count on
a different way when he changed the machine.
Now I see a little bit
that the impact
with the increase in security
that is easy with these trade wars
from the USA
makes it possible to wait again
a little bit.
So it will be a little exciting to follow
what is happening with
these games.
I mean,
there are not that many people
who are working on stocks.
You want to know what is happening.
If you are confident, you dare to invest.
Then you could say
that the short-term
that there is a little insecurity in the air
is, what do you say, a little bit
careful and a little bit careful
because it is not super, super dangerous.
But then you can say
that within a relatively short time
you will have a little more information
and then you see that this takes a little more time.
There are different
Netherlands where we come very far
on this Product-to-Fusion curve.
They have had a government
earlier that has been very strict
with environmental issues
and they have changed
from a year ago
to a government that is a little less strict
around environmental issues.
And it has made the building start again.
And now we see that
the Netherlands is a very positive trend.
Even Belgium,
the UK has had a positive trend
after Brexit
when it suddenly got a problem
to take up work force
or cheap work force.
Then it had to focus on new technology
and the operators got more power
and see what they want to have
and so on.
There are many factors that play into it
but the security is
that makes it
a little more catch-up effect
than it is at all.
There is also a big X
and that is Ukraine
where you discuss different types
of operations
and it might not be
a clear peace operation
but it might still
land in
and it might be realistic
some form of an official war
end that you stop shooting at each other
and maybe start building up again.
How do you see that that would affect?
It is also
both the security part
and the end of the war
but there is also
Europe
helping to build up
a lot of Ukraine
and they will have a great need
of machines and everything
so it should be
very positive
in many ways for us.
To sum up a little
you could say
that in any sense
with the American administration
who is playing in Europe
around security
it means
in any sense that you get a higher price
on products in the US
but it might not force
a need to increase efficiency
and therefore increase demand
on products and services
that increase efficiency
and therefore lower production costs
and we look at the development in Europe
even if it is
in many ways that we should think about security
and so on
it is still net and positive for you
because you will need to make
pretty big investments
and then you will have
part of the idea
and then we have a little unknown factor
that we are hoping for in Ukraine
who in turn
could take this even further.
If you think about it
when you go and put it on
and then you get a little untimely
I am convinced
that the question will come
as you said
there are so many parts that speak for that
and now with
this increased
hunting with the security part
and the defense industry
there will be a lot of money
and that is
where we can get new supply chain problems
especially
in China, the US
they would have to get support
from there
but also
we have a lot of local
in the north
but the defense industry
in the whole field
can also lead to
that many of our suppliers
get a lot of work there
that can lead to
challenges in the supply chain
again
as there was time
after the pandemic
how do we handle these parts
in a good way?
How important is China for you?
As a market or...
I think that you can buy things from
or use them in the production process
Yes
We are very small, we buy directly from China
but we have
suppliers that buy
most electronic parts
come from China
you have to be honest
and that is where you get a little uncomfortable
what will happen
when they require licenses
to deliver things
so that they don't have to go to the US
and that can be a little hacky
the curve before you get these
things and our suppliers
have gotten these
licenses to get these things
and so on
so there is
a problem in that way
Kristian, when I look
at a company I see that you have
a high P/E
that means
that you are being evaluated
as a growth company
Yes
Do you see how long
can you continue growing?
I usually say
at least 20 years
you should be able to do that
and do you always
grow as a niche company
or do you see that you are spreading
the production lines?
Yes, we will be able to
spread and
there is so much
now we are very focused
on
what is going on
on the machine
and that it is something that
fits together with Tiltrotator
we also have our fast party
the hydraulic fast party
that you can look at
what fits together with it
if we do a spread
on the machine
there is much more work
we could have
and spread our work
so we can grow
if you look at the north
where we are more or less fully penetrated
there is more
different types of work
so we can increase the turnover
there
but Europe is still in the P/E
with Tiltrotator
but also
different types of work
so that we can
spread and increase
the entire base even more
Why don't you do this
development in the north
a little bit
we are still
in the
we are
in the end at the beginning
of our journey
and the next step
when you change
your team
you can have several legs
now you have
fully established
new countries
and find people who are good enough
to drive all these parts
now we maybe start
to build a larger base
central
with people who could
work to take
these different
other legs or segments
I will go into the demolition
for example
I think it is a growth journey
we need to do
a mental journey in the organization
so you want to be there
as long as possible
to not lose focus
a little bit
but it is also
we need to bring in
more people
when we start a new leg
to drive that leg
the times you have been
maybe you have been
to try too much
we have now
the third generation
we have invested a lot of money
so that we will be stronger
in this crisis
and when we
start rolling out
we launched
the first model here in december
and we will come
with the other model
in december
after that
it is also easier
to use R&D
to look in other areas
Christe, do you have an IDRO background?
Yes, I have played
basketball
and coached basketball
at the highest level in Sweden and Norway
at what level did you play yourself?
I played
in Södertälje
when I played
in Jämtland
then I coached
here in Jämtland
and coached
in Norgen
and called Kongsberg
What can you take with you
from the IDRO
in your current job?
Very much, I think
partially I build teams
and how to work with people
in that way
but also the habits
and results
in that way
here we play
a game for the public
once a quarter
when we release the report
there we play once a week
and everyone is looking at
what you have done
and how you have been analysed
in that way you are used
to live under that pressure
which I think is very useful
and
I think the IDRO
is a very good school
to work towards goals
and results
and dare place high goals
and things like that
and know that
you won't be there if you don't put in time
How do you experience that?
I don't follow basketball that much
I was born with very short legs
so it was never my sport
but I understand
you have become much better at basketball
we get some stars
that have moved to the American league
How big is that for you?
It's really fun
that
once the love IDRO
gets bigger and bigger in Sweden
and I agree
that we have got a lot of good players
a couple that are in the NBA
some that are very high
European level
and it's really fun
and they are much more good than
what we were
in my time
even if we were at the national level
we actually had
bigger success during that time
when I played
where we were in the US and something else
that we didn't manage to take us to
but it's also been with
Phonar Jogoslavien
divided up into many countries
and Russia divided up into many
or Sweden divided up into many countries
that are much tougher
both of them were big basketball players
so it's been tougher
to come along in that way
I can think of it
as a Swedish basketball player
when you reach an international level
it's a lot about being underdog all the time
Do you like to be in underdog position?
No
I think
I work with
a lot as a coach
you have to
you have to train
that you can think that you always win
because
if you're always underdog
and everyone is really happy
that you can do something
then you will never be the best
I think that
we at Enkon have a very clear mentality
that we are
we are number one
we are the best
that all of us should reach
I like
that mentality
it drives us
a lot more
underdog is a classic Swedish
favorite in that way
that you don't want to have too much pressure
but I think we should have pressure
we are good
we should stand for that
we are the best
the others should try to reach us
How do you convince the organization about that?
our focus is
a lot on
R&D innovation
that we should have
as the others
and that is
a part of it
and then we show
the results
and everything
that we get better results than the others
we are bigger than the others
we meet a lot
the market share
countries and other things
and where we are not
we are in some countries
where we are not the biggest
and then it is a big focus
that we should be the biggest
we should be the one
that has the biggest market share
in all countries
that is our ambition
and with that tough mentality
I think that
some of us don't like that
but we need to find those
now you have a very different job
so to speak
how much do you think
about health and motion
and so on
I feel better
about this
in the last years
I have started to train a bit more
but it is more about going to gym
and then I like to
go out for slalom
that is
going up to the years
but don't think about anything else
when you go out
you need to focus on that
I think that is the perfect connection
to health and motion
Christy, it has been great
to talk with you
you have put color on our theories
in a fantastic way
I thank you for
that you want to set up
thank you very much
it was really fun
and a nice discussion
that we were going to sit here
but I thought that you would like to have a long time
how do you look in the evening
my son is coming home from Stockholm
so I am going to pick them up
on the plane
and then we are going to eat
some lunch and have a look at some good food
then we are going up to
the annual weekend
the annual session
there are a lot of artists
including William Bryant
and Simon Seperti
I wish you and your family
a fantastic weekend
see you soon
thank you
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Podcast Summary
Key Points:
Discussion on American administration and economy, including Trump's tax policies.
Impact of trade wars, tariffs, and uncertain market conditions on companies and investors.
Introduction to Enkom, a company specializing in tilt rotators for construction machines.
Summary:
The podcast episode delves into American administration, focusing on economic policies, trade wars, and the impact of tariffs. Trump's tax cuts, trade policies, and market uncertainties are discussed, highlighting challenges for companies and investors. The conversation transitions to Enkom, a company specializing in tilt rotators for construction machines.
Enkom's CEO, Krister Blomgren, explains the company's growth, international presence, and product benefits. The discussion touches on Enkom's resilience during crises, adaptation to market challenges, and the importance of strategic business approaches. The conversation underscores the significance of understanding global economic dynamics, adapting to changing market conditions, and maintaining a strategic approach to business growth amidst uncertainties.
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