Fluctuations in growth, and not least emerging economies, have made Wrist Ship Supply perform slight adjustments to the company's strategy. The Danish-based supplier still harbors ambitions of growing its business east of Suez, but some countries have been down-prioritized for now, explains CEO Robert Kledal to Danish newspaper Berlingske Business. The company has not missed the fact that growth in BRIC nations has slowed down:

"And we also clearly sense that the US is experiencing something of a renaissance. So we've scaled down our plans for Brazil and Angola, and we've gone back to looking at whether we can perform additional acquisitions in the US," he tells the business daily.