Tag: family business
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…
Knuspr wants to oust Rewe from the top
Dusseldorf Anyone who asks operators of German grocery delivery services when they want to be profitable usually gets incredulous looks. In any case, high-speed services such as Gorillas or Flink…
Highlighters and backpacks are turning things around for Schwan-Stabilo
Munich The current trend in industry is towards focus. Corporations like Siemens, General Electric and Toshiba have split up or have presented plans for it. But for the family business…
The new head of the Schwarz Group is restructuring the management
Installation of a Lidl logo The future Lidl boss Kenneth McGrath wants to modernize the discounter. (Photo: imago images / Frank Sorge) Dusseldorf Just a few days ago, Lidl’s UK…
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…
Getting fit for the time after the boom
Martin Esslinger Esslinger is to replace the previous number two next to founder Ortlieb, the experienced manager Jürgen Siegwarth. Munich Sold out: Ortlieb panniers were more popular than ever over…
E-Commerce: Hornbach – faster growth than Amazon
Dusseldorf If you want to know which large online shop in Germany grew the fastest in the past year, you shouldn’t look at Amazon. Or the Otto Group. Or 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…
Eggnog manufacturers in the pandemic: Viktoria & William Verpoorten
Bonn Yolk yellow as far as the eye can see. In the Verpoorten headquarters in Bonn, the floor, sofas and even the coffee dishes are the same color as the…
Cybex brings a new type of child seat with airbag onto the market
Anoris T i-Size According to the company, the airbag integrated in the impact body above the abdomen protects the head and neck of the new product from Cybex. The airbag…
Landlords are thinking of short-time working again
Dusseldorf Half-empty restaurants, rows of canceled Christmas parties: The Enchilada Group, with more than 70 branches nationwide, is already feeling the effects of the new 2G rule on business in…
Rose Bikes boss is supposed to spruce up Peek & Cloppenburg’s own brands
Dusseldorf Marcus Diekmann is sometimes quite extreme in his business principles. “I believe in the principle of the part-time CEO,” says the managing partner of the bicycle retailer Rose Bikes.…
Companies want to offer booster vaccinations through company doctors
Corona vaccination Booster vaccinations will also be available in the companies in the future. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf Large companies in Germany rely on “booster vaccinations” for their employees via company…
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…
Teamviewer competitor: Anydesk announces major financing round
Dusseldorf In the second year of the corona pandemic, more happened on the market for remote access software than was expected: While Teamviewer, the stock market star of last year,…
Hoteliers fear impairment of the winter season
Vienna Austria’s hoteliers struggle. The Salzburg hotelier and restaurateur Sepp Schellhorn complains that a Wiener Schnitzel should not cost him 21 euros, but 35 euros. The entrepreneur and former parliamentarian…
Design brand Kartell posts record numbers in the crisis
Noviglio Claudio Luti doesn’t want to hear about the dying of the inner cities. “I’ve always had a different opinion,” says the head of the Italian design brand Kartell. Trade?…
Legal reform necessary: Germany needs fiduciary property
Germany needs a new legal form – a “society with tied assets” (GmgV) – I made this public demand a year ago together with hundreds of entrepreneurs from Michael Otto…
These women are involved as business angels
Female business angels Beate Fastrich (volnur), Claudia Nagel, Gwendolyn Schröter, Patrizia Schützenhöfer, Verena Pausder, Cornelia Hörl and Katja Ruhnke. Dusseldorf At some point Luisa Dames couldn’t hear it anymore: When…