Get to know our trio as they head down to the Herning Fair in Denmark on April 20-22.
On this rainy Monday, we have gathered three of our salesmen, Markus, Jesper and Mattias up in the lunch room to talk a bit over a cup of coffee. We want to get to know them better, and talk a bit about why we are exhibiting at Herning in April.
Today, just like every other day - in snow, rain or sun - Mattias Granberg has been riding his electric scooter to work - just a few kilometers from his apartment in Alingsås. When he's not tinkering with furniture, watching a series or tinkering with some modern IT solution, he enjoys spending time with his daughter, who lives with him part-time.
Mattias, who also responds to the nickname Granis, had tried most things in the food industry when he applied to us at Alf Pettersson AB in 2021 - a workplace he had heard good things about and also visited several times in his capacity as operations manager of e-commerce for one of Alingsås grocery stores. With a whole "bunch" of jobs in his luggage, he felt ready for new challenges, and got the job as a salesman.
This former Västerå boy has become an important part of the team and enjoys his new workplace and contributes to the good atmosphere at Alf Pettersson AB.
His main task is to maintain relations with both national and European customers.
If he had to choose just one dish to always have in his lunchbox, it would be, not obviously, cassoulet. But he says he's not that picky - "the nutrition has to go in".
To the right of "Granis" is his colleague Jesper Helsén, a former Töllsjö resident who now lives in central Alingsås. Jesper, or Jeppe, as we call him, comes from a background as a coordinator/purchaser and inside salesman.
He had held his last job as an inside salesman for a couple of months before the pandemic struck and the company in question had to give notice to staff - fortunately, he applied to the neighboring company Alf Pettersson AB instead. He had heard good things about us as an employer so it was an obvious choice to apply here when he saw the ad for the sales position in 2020.
Jesper likes football, especially Manchester United or IFK Göteborg. When he's not watching sports, he likes to train, or eat pizza, in Italy. A destination he has chosen to travel to in recent years.
Jesper's main responsibility is to take care of the daily operations and order placement for Volvo. He thinks that he had high expectations when he started at Alf Petersson AB and these have not only been met but exceeded considerably. Need we say that he enjoys his job very much?
Jesper's absolute favorite food box contains, of course, spaghetti and meat sauce.
Together with Jesper, Markus Helgesson also works with a focus on Volvo. Mackan, Helge, or "Mack the hack" as he is also known, lives in a terraced house in Alingsås with his partner and their children. He has not always lived in Alingsås, which you can sometimes hear very clearly in the dialect - Floda may be close - but not enough to get a broad Alingsås dialect, but it leans more towards Gôtebosska.
Mackan has previously worked with marketing, product launches and project management of fairs at companies that produce products for vehicle adaptations. He had worked there for 10 years when he joined us in 2018.
He works with Jesper and takes care of Volvo and all the fantastic people there. Mackan also enjoys his job very much and likes to come here in the early morning hours to start the day.
When he's not working or spending time with his family, he's more than happy to fish, but settling down in front of the TV to watch motorsport or ice hockey beats most things. Frölunda are of course Mackan's heroes.
He not only has the Volvo in common with Jesper - but also his favorite lunchbox, meat sauce and spaghetti. It goes down every day of the week.
