Putting the Customer First for 25 Years with Jeff Bailly, Chairman and CEO of UFP Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: UFPT)

My guest on the show today is Jeff Bailly, the Chairman and CEO of UFP Technologies. UFP is a 480 million dollar market cap company that specializes in designing foams, films, and plastics materials for the medical, automotive, consumer, and aerospace markets in the United States. Jeff joined the company in 1988 and became CEO in 1995.

Jeff has been instrumental in helping turn UFP into the company it is today. After years of somewhat limited growth, UFP made its largest acquisition ever in 2018—of a company called Dielectrics--and that deal has transformed the company’s margin profile and growth trajectory. And the big changes that have occurred since the deal have not gone unnoticed by the stock market. Accordingly, I thought it would be really instructive to hear from Jeff about the process that led to UFP’s recent success.

In this enlightening discussion, we will cover:

- The genesis of the Dieletrics deal and the strategy surrounding moving into medical end markets

- Jeff’s thoughts on the key elements that have allowed the stock to appreciate to a level 20 times its value when Jeff became CEO

- The benefit of being patient and having a willingness to suffer as CEO

- Areas in which UFP still has a long runway to get better

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