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