10 INSIDE ATR ATR World Longawaited reunion! In the second half of the year, the ATR team could also visit some shareholders outside the APAC region, a very welcome opportunity after the COVID-19 travel restrictions. A business review meeting with ATR’s Swedish sharehold- er MEKO in Stockholm was on the agenda of Jonas Pfleiderer, Strategic Account Manager, and Alexander Birnstein, General Manager Coordination Purchasing, at the end of September 2022. Henrik Engberg, Head of Purchasing, and Kenneth Bengtsson, Senior Purchasing Analyst, gave interesting insights into their markets, current issues and the latest innovative projects of MEKO. Henrik Engberg took Jonas Pfleiderer and Alexander Birnstein on a tour outside Stockholm showing them different workshop concepts as well as stores of MECA and MEKONOMEN which offer end-consum- ers a wide range of high-quality products and services. MEKO recently acquired the Finish company Koivunen, thus strengthening its presence in Finland and expending to the Baltic States. ATR looks forward to a continued fruitful collab- oration with MEKO. shareholder Piotr Walaszczyk, Stra- tegic Account Manag- er, travelled to Hun- gary in October to visit the ATR SAG/ Autonet. Andras Süveg, Chief Purchasing Officer – CPO, and Andrea Somlay, Assistant Global Purchasing, took him on a tour through the new, impressive SAG/Autonet Group Purchasing Central Europe’s logistics centre near Buda- pest. They also showed him the new automatic robotised warehouse AutoStore system for small spare parts that SAG/Autonet has introduced in this logistics centre. The trip of Piotr Walaszczyk to Buda- pest was continued by a visit to the shareholder UNIX Autó. At UNIX Autó, János Nánási, Head of Purchasing, and Piotr Walaszczyk visited the Logistic Centre in Budapest, including its new extension, which will increase the warehouse ground area to 35,000 m². János Nánási also provided information about their automated storage system that was developed in-house at UNIX Autó. ATR is glad to have such innovative shareholders in Hungary. In mid-October, Henning Kaeß, Managing Director Market- ing/Digitisation, and Tobias Finck, Senior Manager Digitisa- tion, visited Create Business in Lisbon, Portugal and Aaron Montecchio Ltd. in Tel Aviv, Israel in the framework of ATR Dig- itisation GmbH. Sammy Konfidan, Managing Director of Aaron Montecchio, provided interesting insights into the company’s IT, business and facilities. The three also met with Mobisoft, a service provider that develops digital products for the IAM, such as the Aaron Monetecchio App, which was presented in an ATR shareholder webinar. When they flew to Create Busi ness, they were joined by Gwenael de Calan, Head of Sales of CARUSO. Together, they had fruitful discus- sions with Carlos Nascimento, President and CEO, Pedro Proença, Commercial & Marketing Director, Rui Damas, Technical Manager, and Create Business’s IT service providers about future opportunities and developments in the context of digitisation. During both trips, they met new potential service providers for promising IAM solutions.