For two decades, Alan Leamy, from Périgord, has been encouraged through the desires of conversion of the life sciences sector and the transformation of the family business circle with technology.
Alan Leamy is the CEO of Perigord, a Dublin-based company that has one of the world’s leading suppliers of labeling illustrations and other facilities to life sciences corporations around the world.
Present in Ireland, Germany, the United States and India, the Périgord has undergone many transformations since its creation. It now operates in more than a hundred markets and produces illustrations for 10 of the 20 most sensible pharmaceutical companies in the world, helping that pharmaceutical packaging. complies with local and global regulations.
It has also moved into the generation space, allowing life sciences corporations to digitize and integrate their chains with software and services. In March 2021, virtual consulting and transformation company Tech Mahindra acquired a 70% stake in Périgord.
Over the past two decades, Leamy has taken the company from a family business circle to an organization of 500 other people with $30 million in revenue. It now plans to continue to grow Périgord’s workforce in Ireland over the next few years as the company expands into new markets.
What we have noticed over the past decade is that our industry and our consumers face many challenges, one is sustainability and the other the amount of knowledge about the company’s products that exists in our consumers’ businesses. Therefore, Périgord has worked hard together with our consumers. expand facilities and software to those two areas.
Today, we have our Global Tagging Art Management System (GLAMS) exchange software to help our clients manage all of their content and assets in a single source. We have also developed a SaaS formula to help our customers measure and the carbon footprint of their packaging. Portfolio: The software also allows them to plan the effects of adjustments and optimizations on their portfolio.
A key opportunity that we are capitalising on is the move towards sustainable packaging. Companies must be seen to be taking initiatives in order to make their products more sustainable as addressing the climate crisis moves higher on government agendas.
Our goal is to reduce our clients’ carbon footprint in the context of their supply chain. Perigord uses its comprehensive knowledge of packaging, the supply chain and sustainability to help our clients rethink their packaging and to look at their carbon footprint and ways they can reduce it while remaining within their margins.
I joined what was my father’s company, Litho Studios, when I was 17 years old. At the time I did an apprenticeship in graphic reproductions.
During this time I would regularly travel between Ireland and the US. I would often do up to three trips over seven days to transport images that featured on the covers of National Geographic, Time and Life magazines. It was incredible.
I then took over the business from my father in 2002, which was a very different one from what I started in because of technological advancements. When Apple developed the Mac computer and then Photoshop was introduced, it made Litho’s skills redundant.
In the end, we brought the generation into the company and started training employees. It was vital that we embrace the generation rather than run away from it for the company to survive. In 2003, I thought that the Périgord would no longer be a family business circle and from there we replaced brands and expanded into new spaces such as pharmacy and life sciences.
Then jumping to last year, 70% of the company bought through Tech Mahindra and here we are!We are entering a new level of corporate that is essential for its growth. Since the acquisition, we have been able to expand Périgord into new sectors in Ireland, such as customer goods and the marketing departments of pharmaceutical agencies. I can’t wait to see what the long term holds.
For the company to survive, many risky decisions had to be made. One of the risks I took was deciding to leave the realm of a family business circle to focus on scaling the business globally. It’s complicated!
Working with a circle of relatives can be challenging and occasionally there are emotional connections to the company, however, due to the industry we work in and the ever-changing landscape, it was not imaginable to remain a circle of kinship business.
Detail! I am a visionary user: I love strategy, long-term vision of states and artistic challenges and challenge solving.
I also like details, but having a busy life is precisely my biggest draw.
I that being informed is vital for groups to grow professionally. I see that being informed of your colleagues is where you inform yourself to the maximum and that inspires you from all my groups in Périgord.
I experienced this firsthand when I took a course at Stanford University in 2011. The organization that participated in the course was basically composed of other CEOs and entrepreneurs. The course was engaging in itself, but I felt like I had learned the most from others as well. that they were taking the course.
Sharing reports is very important because we can be informed of each other’s mistakes. I am very friendly to the organization and sometimes we rely on each other for advice as we continue to grow our business.
We are a very fortunate corporation as we have locations in Ireland, Germany, India and usa. This highlights the variety of people, skills, ethnicities and culture we are grateful to have in Périgord.
People are what Périgord does and we will continue to take advantage of the assets of our diversity among all our colleagues. They all play an important role in the good fortune of our business today.
One of the core classes of the Stanford course was, “Just pay attention to the consumer and build what the consumer wants. “I took this recommendation with myself and, from there, implemented it in my efforts to make the Périgord what it is. This Day.
Also, don’t worry about the little things!
Professor Steve Peters. La chimpanzee paradox gained by reading this e-book has surely made my decision-making better and more informed, I appreciate it very much.
Dormir. La normal normal sleep allows me to manage my week. Without it, my functionality drops, no doubt!
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