2015 was the year the tadpole hatched, crawled out of the pond and began it’s conquest in Sweden and Norway. 2016 is the year we will tighten our thigh muscles and jump further out in the world! We aim to at least double our turnover and to double our current staff in the Kling Group and its subsidiaries before the end of 2016. Our expansion rate so far has been as expected, although it has gone very quickly to get where we are today. To think that we a year ago only were two people with a dream and now we are 20+ people with even bigger dreams, however, exceeds all expectations!
The collection efforts on Kling Sortina, which we are launching at the end of January, is in full swing. We have a number of finished and delivered products and a large number of articles that are on it’s way to our warehouse. It is soon so full that we can not harbor more products, which resulted in the decision to get a new office with almost double the storage space!
We don’t have to move far though, since our new office is located on the same floor we are on now, but on the other side of the building with a fantastic view over the Salt Lake Marina and the bay beyond. We are in the midst of the architect work, with blueprints, planning of workplaces, kitchen, office environment and other more or less life-changing decision. One of the biggest benefits of the new office is the wonderful terrace facing the water, where we will most likely have most of our informal meetings, when the weather permits. We will of course tell you more about our lovely new premises in a later post towards spring time.
We are currently recruiting more sales personel for Sortina and Cordena and we are very glad to welcome five new employees who have already been hired. These five employees will start at the end of the month and we greet Jenny, Claes, Anjelica, Linda and Josefine to the Kling Group!
The coming quarter, we have a large number of trips planned. Our founders Fredrik and Sekina will be dashing around the world to make new contacts that can help us in the continued construction of the Kling Group. The first destination is the Paperworld Fair in Frankfurt. After that we have planned purchase-trips to Dubai, Shanghai, Taiwan, China and at the end of April we have a splendid exercise trip to Spain with the winners in last year´s sales competition.
We had our life’s most rewarding and enjoyable year in 2015. The upstart of the Kling Grouop has been fantastic, which makes us realize that nothing is impossible. We look forward to this year and will do our uttermost to both reach and surpass our goals!
