2018 in brief
In 2018, sales increased to SEK 1,366 (1,183) million and operating profit was SEK 251 (212) million. The number of employees increased to 592 (542).
KEY EVENTS FROM 2018
JANUARY:
HMS opens an office in Singapore to cover the rapidly expanding market in Southeast Asia.
FEBRUARY:
HMS presents its annual study of the industrial network market and concludes that modern Ethernet-based networks are now bigger than traditional fieldbuses.
APRIL:
At the Annual General Meeting in Halmstad, two new board members are elected: Ulf Södergren, former CTO of ASSA ABLOY (publ) and Cecilia Wachtmeister, Executive Vice President Business & Group Functions, Kambi Group Plc (at present Vice President, Head of Group Sourcing & Procurement of Ericsson AB.)
JUNE:
For the fourth year in a row, HMS’s Ewon solutions are a winner of the 2018 Control Design Readers’ Choice Awards . The readers of the US-based journal awarded Ewon first place in the Remote Access category.
JULY:
HMS aquires German company Beck IPC GmbH – a leading provider in the embedded communications market with solutions for embedded control, M2M communication and the Industrial Internet of Things, IIoT.
OCTOBER / NOVEMBER:
During the fall trade fairs, HMS launches a number of solutions for IIoT. Under the theme “Hardware Meets Software™, HMS launches several new products for connecting industrial hardware to IoT software.