Tag: Entrepreneur of the day
Trisport CEO Melanie Lauer builds on the fitness brand
Melanie Lauer The Trisport boss has big plans for the Kettler brand. (Photo: PR) Dusseldorf When BVB’s Bundesliga soccer game against Freiburg kicks off on Friday in Dortmund’s Signal Iduna…
Biscuit manufacturer Bahlsen is looking for a new boss
Dusseldorf It was less than two years ago that Phil Rumbol started at Bahlsen in Hanover. The Briton was the first non-family boss of the biscuit manufacturer with a history…
Stiebel Eltron is aiming for a billion in sales
Munich The building sector plays a central role in the fight against climate change. According to the Federal Environment Agency in Germany, houses account for around 30 percent of CO2…
Start-up share: sales grow by double digits
Dusseldorf In spring 2018, the first Share products were on the shelves of Rewe and the drugstore chain dm. The nut bars, mineral water or liquid soaps from the social…
Entrepreneurs want to change the world
Dusseldorf “What are we going to do with Grandma?” Steffen Preuss and his three co-founders asked themselves this question five years ago. Some of them were still studying, but were…
Peek & Cloppenburg closes 2020 with a loss of 50 million euros
Christmas business at Peek & Cloppenburg The pandemic revealed how much the fashion trade has to catch up in the online business. (Photo: Getty Images) Dusseldorf Peek & Cloppenburg wants…
The generation change has to wait for Käthe Wohlfahrt
Kenta, Takuma, Fumiko, Harald and Aska Wohlfahrt (from left) Christmas as a year-round business model: the third generation is already working in the family company from Rothenburg ob der Tauber.…
The generation change has to wait for Käthe Wohlfahrt
Dusseldorf The Leipzig Christmas Market has existed since 1458. Around 300 stalls with stollen to Erzgebirge decorations otherwise attract tens of thousands to the historic old town. The market was…
Müller Milch is getting a new head supervisor
Stefan Müller Theo Müller’s eldest son becomes the dairy company’s new chief supervisor. (Photo: imago stock & people) Dusseldorf A change at the top of the supervisory board is pending…
Bertram Kandziora says goodbye with record sales
Stuttgart Bertram Kandziora generally does not tend to be exuberant. “The five billion are within reach,” says the Stihl boss almost without emotion, assessing his counterpart and then smiling slightly…
With personalized therapy against depression
Frankfurt Benedikt von Braunmühl has big plans: The Munich biopharmaceutical company HMNC Brain Health, which he runs, wants to usher in a new era in the treatment of depression. Precision…
Hawag wants to catch up with Lowa with new soles
Munich What Adolf and Rudolf Dassler were to Herzogenaurach, the brothers Hans and Lorenz Wagner were to Jetzendorf and Vierkirchen. Some of them built up the adidas and Puma sneaker…
Hawag wants to catch up with Lowa with new soles
Munich What Adolf and Rudolf Dassler were to Herzogenaurach, the brothers Hans and Lorenz Wagner were to Jetzendorf and Vierkirchen. Some of them built up the adidas and Puma sneaker…
Max Viessmann is now the sole head of the company – Co-CEO Joachim Janssen is retiring
Max Viessmann Since 2017 he has led the group together with Joachim Janssen, who is now retiring. (Photo: Sandra Steh Photography / Viessmann) Dusseldorf Max Viessmann is now alone at…
Bertelsmann subsidiary wants to stop the fraud
Car-Cert managing director Patrick Scharwenka The start-up founder wants to make it difficult to manipulate speedometers. Dusseldorf When Patrick Scharwenka inspected his first used car, a small Fiat car, a…
Start-up Neural Jam wants to offer companies a “digital seminar hotel”
Jamshid Alamuti Companies that want can also book the coaches at the same time. (Photo: Neural Jam) Munich Jamshid Alamuti knows the world of creativity – and that of business.…
Ponticon pE3D printer news: mass production with 3D printing?
Munich 3D printing has already established itself many times in the construction of prototypes – but additive manufacturing is often still too slow for industrial mass production. The Ponticon company…
Batteries: First gigafactory in Great Britain
London There is not much to see on the industrial wasteland in Blyth in the north east of England. The UK’s first battery gigafactory is to be built on the…
This is how managers from outside the family can make a career in family businesses
Dusseldorf They don’t like the term external manager. Managers from outside the family prefer to refer to themselves as “election managers” – just as one speaks of elective relatives whom…
Alfons Schuhbeck: celebrity chef accused of tax evasion
Alfons Schuhbeck More than two years ago, the public prosecutor’s investigation against the celebrity chef became known. (Photo: imago images / Future Image) Munich, Düsseldorf Munich celebrity chef Alfons Schuhbeck…