Centralising a thirty-company group

Mikael Wiborgh, CFO, Nordiska Galleriet Group

"My perspective on The Swedish Concept is a particular one: I inherited the work rather than watched it being done. Gustav had been our CFO through the group's growth years, and when we needed the role covered again he came back on an interim basis. That the group asked for him twice is probably the most useful thing I can tell you.

He centralised the group — a new corporate structure designed and executed, and an ERP implementation that rebuilt and simplified transaction flows across the companies. Both were finished, not half-finished, which is not always what an incoming CFO finds. The handover was thorough and he has stayed reachable since."