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ANDREAS HOLMGREN, SIGMA INDUSTRY SOUTH

The key to success
is commitment, new
talents and a long drive.

There may be significant variation among the different companies within the
Danir Group. However, many of them testify to a spirit where familiarity, passion,
and drive are common denominators. And when you meet Andreas Holmgren at
Sigma Industry South, who, despite his relatively young age, was already present
during the Epsilon days, you get an even clearer picture of a shared Danir spirit.

It was the familiar feel and the way in which employ- Andreas’ family was particularly interested in tech-
ees were viewed that brought Andreas back to the nology, and there were no engineers in his immediate
Danir Group after a few years away, working as a surroundings while growing up. His main interest
consultant for companies such as Tetra Pak, Volvo during his youth was golf, where he turned out to be
Powertrain, Axis, and Alfa Laval. quite a talent. This led him to attend a golf-oriented
upper secondary school with a focus on natural
“I had good experiences with Danir. I liked the sciences. After secondary school, he completed a
simplicity and family feel, the fact that the CEO year of military service, during which he developed
knew everyone’s name despite having hundreds of an interest in further studies, eventually choosing the
employees. That feeling of togetherness that existed engineering programme at LTH. A gap year filled with
at Epsilon gradually disappeared when the company various warehouse and delivery jobs alongside advan-
left the Danir Group, and that was when I felt I ced mathematics studies secured his place at LTH.
wanted to regain that feeling, which led me to move
to Sigma Industry South in 2016,” Andreas says of “The choice of the programme was because
his early experiences with Danir. it offered a rather broad education, and I found
product development exciting,” Andreas says about
Andreas’ path to his current position has not his choice of study.
been entirely straightforward or obvious. No one in