It’s quite
odd that the company, which has just sold its most profitable and rapidly growing unit (Poland), says in its interim report that the company will concentrate even more
on profitable growth.
Hannu
Kottonen CEO HKScan, tells this in the company’s Q2 Interim Report:
The strategic
review completed in June highlighted the need to fine-tune the strategic
must-win battles and to increase our focus on profitable growth in the coming
years.
Okay, let's wait and see what it might mean. I have already
speculated that HKScan will expand through acquisitions in Lithuania.
We will follow the Group in all
of its market areas. Finnish
market, however, is right now the most interesting. The company has a significant product launch in the autumn, namely GMO-free rapeseed pork
meat products. I have been thinking that they would be game-changer. HKScan Finland has significantly
lost market share to the largest
competitor, but now a good campaign could change the situation in many consumer groups and especially in the important away-from-home
business unit.
Of course, the fear is that the
campaign is similar to Scan’s campaign in UK.
Meatball likes evidently have not gone spot-on. Although fast-food and fitness go well together, at least they rhyme quite
nicely.
Now there is a Danish leader
in Rose Poultry, truly positive news. But what does it mean that large companies together launched the "Danish
Kylling" brand. One should have thought that
the Danes never even think of eating foreign
meat.
The situation may be severe.
Probably a lot of cheap
meat is flowing to all HKScan's
market areas. What will happen to
the Group's renewed Flodins brand which is committed
to using only meat from the
company's own market area.
We will discuss
HKScan later but on Friday, September 26th, we are going to look at Atria’s businesses. HKScan might increase its presence in the
Baltics. Here is one memorable departure to Estonia.
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