Axiom Group
The GDP experience makes you 100 times better as a leader and CEO than you could ever imagine. It’s like having an expert board of directors.
Perry Rizzo
CEO
Leading maker of plastic injection molding for the automotive industry
About the company
Axiom Group, with 200 employees, is experiencing exponential growth as an industry leader in the automotive plastics manufacturing sector
Location: Aurora, Ontario
Industry: Automotive plastics manufacturing
Entrepreneur challenge
The CEO sought help to achieve ambitious growth objectives in a highly competitive sector. He wanted advice on leadership capacity needs, scaling opportunities and company strengths and weaknesses.
BDC expertise
The CEO joined BDC’s Growth Driver Program, which prepares ambitious business owners to scale up significantly. The two-year program helped the CEO and his team improve their leadership capacity, organizational structure, customer communications, operational efficiency, business culture and costing.
Results
- Sales expected to triple by 2023.
- Workforce to grow from 200 to 350-450 in three years.
- A successful expansion in Mexico grew from 60 to 150 employees.
- Axiom launched a pioneering Industry 4.0 manufacturing monitoring solution.