Today, Ponsse's machines are used at logging sites in approximately 40 countries, and 80 per cent of the company's net sales come from exports.

Ponsse Group employs more than 1,800 people in 10 countries, and the company's shares are quoted on the NASDAQ OMX Nordic List.

[4] In 1971, Einari places an ad in the Helsingin Sanomat news paper in order to recruit an engineer for the factory.

Einari hears that the job is well compensated, and sets out to Germany, accompanied by Finnish loggers and a Ponsse machine.

The machine is highly advanced at the time, as it is lighter but is still able to carry heavy loads, as well as function on soil with poor bearing capacity.

[3] On 16 December in 1988, Ponsse's entire share capital is transferred to the industrial company called Interpolator Oy, a part of SKOP Group.

Einari receives the Finnish National Inventor Prize awarded by the Ministry of Trade and Industry, in recognition of his persistent work in the forest machine development.

Kajaanin Automatiikka Ky, a company manufacturing information systems in Kajaani, is merged with Ponsse.

A corporate development also happens, when the public quotation of Ponsse Plc shares on the Helsinki Stock Exchange begins in 1995.

[8] Ponsse's 30th anniversary party is organized in 2000, and the occasion is used to announce a brand new product family with Mercedes-Benz engines.

The following reasons are given for the selection: "Einari Vidgren is awarded for his unique entrepreneurship, which led to one of the world's leading manufacturing companies of forest machinery being established in Finland.

The tour travels through ten locations in Finland, presenting machines and meeting customers across the country.

Several sponsorship deals are announced, including the javelin thrower Tero Pitkämäki, WRC-driver Mikko Hirvonen, and ice hockey team Kalpa.

Another subsidiary, Ponsse Latin America, is established in Brazil, and a retail agreement in South Africa.

Due to weakened demand and the future prospects for the forest machine industry, Ponsse gives summons for employee cooperation negotiations.

Einari's four sons became the primary shareowners of the company, and Juha Vidgren was unanimously selected as the new Chairman of the Board.

[5] Epec Oy, a forest machine application and product development firm based in Kajaani, is transferred to Ponsse in 2011.