BUSINESS ROZHOVOR
From a Small-Scale
Production
of Five Employees
to a Company
With a Billion CZK
Turnover
The company history of ISMM Production & Business
Cooperation s.r.o. spans all the way back to 1997. Since 1999,
Ing. Miloslav Cváček, PhD, as the sole owner of the company,
started his own small scale production with five employees
in 2007 and gradually built the ISMM Group from scratch,
which includes six prosperous companies with more than
500 employees and turnover in the billions. We interviewed
Mr Cváček in the newly opened plant in the City of Albrechtice.
Currently, you possess five production
enterprises. Over twenty-five years,
you have managed to build one of the
most modern engineering companies
in Czechia. What do you attribute your
company’s success to?
Thank you for the compliment. What
I appreciate most about the story of
ISMM is its humble beginnings. I started
from zero, essentially having just a single
employee, and I have managed to build
a multidisciplinary group of six companies,
employing more than 500 people with
an expected turnover of 1.3bn CZK in
2022. I think that the key to my success was
perseverance and systematic work driven
towards a specific vision. Furthermore,
I believe that strategic thinking, and
an ability to notice and capitalise on longterm marketing opportunities, also played
key roles. We approach these challenges
proactively in an attempt to solve our
customers’ concerns. Additionally, we
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operate in the field of conventional
engineering
products;
this
market
already contains many influential players
and therefore presents some serious
competition. Engineering has a strong
tradition in the Czech Republic and so we
have extensive experience with it.
In the past couple years, you have made
a series of important acquisitions, the
most recent of which involved the new
facility in Albrechtice. What are your
expectations of this acquisition and what
lead you to expand into the Bruntál area?
Capacity expansion generally reflects
the company’s situation. In 2021, we
experienced an unprecedented growth
in commissions, an increase of over 50%
compared to 2020. Our production
capabilities were truly tested to the
maximum and we therefore had to think
about their expansion. We only had two
options: either acquire an engineering
company that was not as strained or
purchase a new production facility. In
the end, towards the autumn of last year,
both of these events took place. The
engineering company ISMM & Jan Bacho
a.s. joined the group along with their roughly
ninety employees and a production facility
with an area of 4 ha—formerly DAKON
and later BOSCH Thermotechnology—in
the city of Albrechtice. I must say that,
upon seeing this facility for the first time,
I was quite exhilarated. It was exactly what
I had imagined and had been looking
for. It is well conceived for engineering
production, sufficiently large and has
the perfect environment for employees