A company´s journey: Maskingruppen Falkenberg

Thursday, 26 January 2012

Maskingruppen Falkenberg

On our trip through southern Sweden a few weeks ago we took the opportunity to revisit Maskingruppen in Falkenberg. It´s always exciting to meet a person who has lead a team to be successful in the art of creating a successful business. Gert Jansson is such a person and he greeted myself and Göran Carlsson generously that Monday morning. Sorry to say we noted that it was a couple of years ago since our last visit and that we need to work at. We had a fruitful meeting and we saw a fantastic facility. When we left Falkenberg it was with a smile on our faces and with great hopes for the future alongside Maskingruppen. We hope and believe that Gert will feel the same way.

Behind the pencil
Carl Erik Åkesson
Sales Manager FARMA / NIAB

About Fors MW

AS FORS MW is the story of one of Sweden’s real heroes - the entrepreneur. As so often with entrepreneurs it’s not the goal in itself that is interesting, it is the journey to reach it.

Leif Fors, company founder and CEO are entrepreneur by birth. Companies being established have always been handled with the same hard work and energetic fire.

However the lack of fare entrepreneurship in our country of origin has caused problems from time to time. A true entrepreneur doesn’t ask for charity – a true entrepreneur asks for fairness and if not receiving it, you never know, he might turn somewhere else.

The story about Fors MW started with a ferry trip, destination Tallinn, at the end of the 80 - ties. The journey was conducted out of curiosity and public interest but what would reveal itself not further away then 400 km from Swedish boarder would shake the entrepreneur by his roots and he choose to stay and has not really left since then.

As entrepreneur he saw an opportunity to create something and by doing so creating a future for him self as well as for others.

Fors MW manufactures forest, agricultural and contractor machinery. Products we then market and sell world wide. The concern is the leading producer in its field and one of the most profitable companies within the mechanical industry in Europe.

Fors MW is based with part of production and most of the assembly in Estonia. The company is Swedish owned, established in 1992 and one of the oldest companies to be established by foreigners in Estonia.

Read more at http://www.forsmw.com/