19/10/2022

Guide Gloves accelerates the pace of innovation and hires Patrik Björk as Senior Product Manager

Guide Gloves continues to expand and is now strengthening the organization with a senior product manager.

Patrik Björk has a strong technical background in product development and most recently comes from Ejendals. With his extensive experience in the PPE industry and excellence in sewn gloves, Patrik will be a key person who will further strengthen Guide's expertise.

Patrik brings unique experience in the development of sewn gloves, combined with deep industry knowledge.

- Guide Gloves is facing an amazing growth journey and has a customer-oriented mindset, consistent with my own attitude. I am looking forward to being part of Guide's innovative development team. Together, we can create good opportunities for our customers to find unique solutions, tailored to their needs, says Patrik Björk, who started his position in October.

Guide Gloves is in an intensive growth phase with a rapid pace of innovation. By combining leading technology with customer-driven insights, the company can offer effective solutions to meet the highest demands on safety and sustainability. By broadening its offer, Guide Gloves will be able to take a clear position as a complete supplier of premium protective gloves.

- With Patrik's presence, we are complete as specialists in the glove area and have sharp in-house competence in product development of sewn gloves. At the same time, we get the opportunity to accelerate the pace of our innovation journey, says Niclas Wiklund, Head of Product Management - R&D at Guide Gloves.

In today’s business environment it is important to see and understand the overall picture in order to keep up with the speed of change together with Guide.

- At Guide, we act quickly, which is our absolute strength. Knowledge is important here, but also professional intuition. Patrik possesses both these characteristics, partly through his experience of working in a changing environment, partly in his holistic approach with a strong end-customer focus. Patrik's ability to process a problem and solve it by putting the confection aspect into a larger perspective is valuable for our product development, says Niclas Wiklund.

 

For further information, please contact:

Niclas Wiklund

Head of Product Management - R&D

niclas.wiklund@guidegloves.com