Global Expansion from a Small-Country Base

“Revenue growth, improved results, cost control, and international expansion became trademarks of Schörling and Douglas. As long as the company develops, the value of the owners’ holdings also increases. Melker Schörling was the driving force behind Securitas’s international expansion and the company became enormously successful for a Swedish-owned service company. Melker Schörling stepped down from the chairmanship at Securitas in the spring of 2016 after thirty years with the company. The new chairman is Marie Ehrling.”

“As CEO, Frederik Paulsen was an innovator and forward-thinker. As owner and chairman of the board, it is his task to push the operational management at Ferring forward. Frederik Paulsen’s ideas about the development of the independent privately-owned pharmaceutical company have been a successful formula. In the early 1980s, Ferring was a small company with two sister companies, one hundred and twenty employees, and a turnover of about one hundred million kronor. Just over three decades later, Ferring is a global pharmaceutical group with operations in 56 countries and selling drugs in 110. In 2016, according to the company, Ferring had 6,000 employees and a turnover of 1.9 billion euros. The annual growth over the past two decades has been at least ten percent per year on average. Today, the growth is about five percent according to Frederik Paulsen.”