The optimist.
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Expansion strategy. In 18 years, Wolfgang Trier, now 55, has turned the bankruptcy candidate Softing into a serious supplier of communication solutions for industry. "And the best," Trier is convinced, "is yet to come.
"We are currently sounding out the market to find companies that could fit into the strategy and portfolio of our Automation segment. And are available at a reasonable price in the crisis," says Wolfgang Trier, CEO of the publicly listed Softing AG. "That would then be another piece in the mosaic on the way to breaking the EUR 100 million sales barrier and achieving a double-digit EBIT margin again." If the plan works out, the Corona crisis would at least have one positive aspect for Trier. Inorganic growth is particularly...