Partners Creating Growth is passionate about growing your business. President & Owner Tove Rasmussen has long been passionate about growing revenues and profits of small firms and Fortune 500 companies. She has helped expand business and improve operations as general manager, global marketing manager, operations manager and consultant for small businesses and often renegade Fortune 500 companies. She brings this passion and successful experience to mentor and consult with business heads to help them grow both revenues and profits through Partners Creating Growth.

As a child, she read every book about plants, and had a little garden to cultivate. As a college student, Tove prepared a study on the coffee industry in East Africa, later going to visit. For a photo, she naturally held the smallest plant, envisioning the potential for growth.

Not surprisingly, then, Partners Creating Growth is focused on organic growth – the actual growth of your business through succeeding in the market.

Profitable Growth

Partners Creating Growth operates at the nexus of financial, market and operations to prioritize the key opportunities for client businesses. It is the focus on financial management and analysis that helps ensure an increase in profitable growth.

Tove’s accomplishments include:

• Growing the Dairy Division of IDEXX Laboratories by 50% in a highly competitive industry
• Doubling the Innovative Packaging Services Division of Sonoco, and
• Moving a flexible plastics packaging firm into a new, profitable laminations market
• Helping companies focus on their profitable business to increase profits
• Improving the sales and profits of numerous clients

Throughout the COVID pandemic, Tove worked with the Manufacturing Association of Maine to put together a program to mitigate the effects of it on our businesses. Among other projects, it was heartwarming to move these companies forward in a tough time.

Operations and Profit Improvement

She has also improved operations and increased profitability at, among others:

• At the RR Donnelley (RRD) Portland, Oregon facility, she led the operations team to meet or exceed all safety, quality, productivity and financial goals on the site for the first time in ten years.
• A multi-million manufacturing company, she led the facility’s team to bring the plant from $1 million loss to profit through increasing productivity, improving quality, and exiting the low-end flexible packaging market.

This Operations and Financial expertise takes Partners Creating Growth beyond promotion to full business growth strategy, understanding capacity and financing needed for growth.

Education

Tove holds an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business, ranked #1 in Canada for 6 straight years by Bloomberg Businessweek. She has also completed an intensive coaching program grounded in effective listening as well as the Co-Active Coaching Fundamentals from the Coaches Training Institute in Washington, DC. She holds a Certified Management Accountant designation, and teaches in several local business schools. Tove also has a BA, as a Political Science Major (Honors) and African Studies Minor, from the University of Toronto.

The success of PCG clients is always forefront and highly satisfying. That their success has a positive impact on the world, providing more opportunities to the community around us, is also highly satisfying to Tove , her team – and to our community.

So, if you are a small or mid-sized business and want to grow, let’s chat. I’d love to learn more about your company – and we can see if we are a good fit and if the time is right to get started.