From humble Canterbury beginnings to a $50M operation in 20 years, Andrew Barclay has led WYMA Solutions to become one of the world’s leading manufacturers of post-harvest vegetable and fruit handling equipment. They design, manufacture, install, and service post-harvest equipment for pack houses around the world.
WYMA’s mainstay product is the Vege-Polisher They’re so good that, in some parts of the world, people talk about “owning a WYMA”. (Like how someone refers to an adjustable spanner as a Crescent). You know you’re onto something great when your company name becomes a generic term!
In this podcast, Caliber Design’s Jonathan Prince talks innovation with Andrew: how they started, how they went international, what drives innovation, what WYMA's values mean to the business and how they help drive innovation, how they really get to know their customer's latent/unmet needs, what differentiates WYMA in the marketplace, the impact of 'the Kiwi attitude', how cross functional teams drive innovation, biggest challenges, biggest achievements, biggest buzz ... and lastly, advice to anyone who's thinking about getting into business.
This is a cracker of a first episode! We hope you enjoy it. If you do, please share it with your colleagues, leave us a review, and subscribe. We'll be Talking Innovation with more business leaders in the product design/mechanical engineering/innovation/sustainability-space over coming months.
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