Day 3 - Wind, Farm, Paper

We began a day with a visit to the very colorful Flexoprint wrapping paper shop. The company celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2004 and has a staff of 23. Nearly 4 years ago the company remodeled it office space and employee lounge and more than trippled the size by expanding the areas from 150 sq meters to 800 sq meters. I was especially impressed with the employee perks. The lunch room is open, spacious, modern, and full of light. Each morning the employees must report 15 minutes before their shift starts to eat breakfast, drink coffee, or merely visit together. They get paid for showing up 15 minutes early! The bathrooms have showers and lockers. There is also a jacuzzi room and two fooseball tables in the employee lounge. The employees we encountered worked quickly and diligently. They said that they loved working there. The business owner, a Dutch man named Mataus who is married to a Swede, had a vision to increase worker productivity through increasing employee perks. It seems to be paying off.

We visited a non-working farm and met the entrepreneurial owner, Lars, who started a wind farm. The wind mill has produced 72,500 kilo watts since it began operating in October 2008.


Pictures: Goats at the farm, inside the modern wind turbine, and a traditional wind mill in the countryside.








Below is recycling station inside "Maxi" grocery store. The store seems comparable to a cross between Rainbow Foods and Super Target.