Fat Statement is primarily known for being the nr1 custom button badge company in Sweden who later also started producing dog tags that the customer could design themselves as well as for the webserie Knappnytt.
From the left; Knatten, Buttons, Dog tags
Fat Statement have yearly b2c sales of a bit over EUR100 000 and want to grow its international sales and especially being able to develop its software for external customers such as small to medium sized printers. Hence just before christmas FS issued new stocks and put in new shareholders; Bytelove, Dan, Nicolai (Bootstraplabs), and PeoplePath. I personally believe very much in the company and increased my share and some of the old shareholders also joined in.
I’m quite happy about the new setting since it feels like a fresh start with people involved that I like to work with. FS and Bytelove will start cooperating with the custom dog tag and button badges production so in the near future we will also send from Germany which will lower international shipping costs significantly. I will take a fairly active part in the administration of the company as well so FS will probably feel a bit closer to me.
Hopefully in 18 months we will have the coolest web2print system for printers out there and the world is busy wearing our stuff
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Ukrainska Chumak
Rolig artikel på DI om Ukrainska Chumak, som grundades och drivs av två utflyttade Svenskar.
Oftast brukar det ju ses som negativt att Svenskar flyttar utomlands för att jobba eller starta bolag. Kan ju dock säga att det ganska naturligt faller sig att man i väldigt hög grad som svensk använder sig av svenska leverantörer. Den ekonomiska effekten är knappast negativ för Sverige totalt sett utan gynnar framförallt tjänsteexporten då många företag får in sin första fot på en ny marknad på det sättet.
Lite tvättäkta svensk attityd i kommentarerna på artikeln ovan i “True DI style” måste jag såklart infoga också: