Message from the President
After a tremendously successful Inogen WorldView® Conference in Bad Nauheim (Germany) we are already busy preparing for the next one.
The conference will be in Toronto, Canada, on May 14th 2012. We will be looking at sustainability and EHS issues through the product life cycle. This theme will allow us to present to you the latest thinking from sustainability as an investment criterion, operational improvements through to end-of-life solutions that help rather than hinder.
Obviously, Canada’s own industry will be part of our focus, but we will explicitly turn to other countries and regions too. No country stands on its own anymore.
We continue to try to serve the world better and increase our geographical coverage, for example, we have welcomed Denkstatt into our alliance this year.
Denkstatt serves the Central and Eastern European market with offices in Austria, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary. Soon they will be opening offices in Serbia and Spain – the latter office focusing on special sustainability services. Furthermore, we are in the advanced stages of the due diligence process for a new member in South East Asia and I’m hoping to tell you more about this in the next issue of this newsletter.
On the economic front we still see some sluggishness here and there, but in general we see recovery across the globe, with some of the markets (Brazil and China in particular) having breezed through anyway. The effect of the stimulus packages is now wearing off rapidly, but most businesses have picked up. The crisis in the EU has some localised effects of course and we are keenly monitoring developments.
Peter
Inogen President and CEO