Berner Industrier is a decentralised group of B2B businesses acting both as distributors and selling their own products. The product base is very diversified, but the common theme is technical solutions for sustainable industry within clean energy, clean water, packaging, process technology and noise reduction. Examples of important products are industrial electrical water boilers, pumps, packaging machinery and industrial dampers.
Downturns in the industrial cycle, difficulties in improving underperforming subsidiaries, acquisition integration issues, inflated acquisition multiples.