Tag: Middle class
The laser specialist’s dependence on China is increasing
Stuttgart Even for long-established family businesses like the mechanical engineering company Trumpf from Ditzingen near Stuttgart, the dependence on the Chinese market is growing massively. In China, sales of the…
Hackers paralyze the automotive supplier’s IT systems
Eberspächer in Esslingen The exhaust manufacturer fell victim to a cyber attack. The IT systems and telephone connections are impaired. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf The Baden-Württemberg auto supplier Eberspächer fell victim…
Federal budget: All-purpose weapon KfW – How the development bank should save the traffic light plans
There is not enough money for important plans of the future traffic light coalition because taxes are not to be increased and the debt brake is to be adhered to.…
The Deep Fall of Steve Bannon – Handelsblatt Morning Briefing
Good morning dear readers, Among the villains in Donald Trump’s villain game, he was the most radical, the most cynical, the most cunning. Now things are getting bad for Steve…
This is how the EU Commission is implementing the banking reform
Frankfurt banking center Above all, the capital requirements of major European banks are likely to increase if the EU Commission prevails with its proposals. (Photo: Getty Images News / Getty…
Traffic light gives up tax cuts – but economists have hope
Berlin On Thursday afternoon, the negotiators of the SPD, Greens and FDP begin their talks about a traffic light coalition in Hub27, a hall of the Berlin trade fair. They…
IKB is entering the digital brokerage of SME loans
Frankfurt Mittelstandsbank IKB is entering the digital brokerage of corporate loans. “We want to develop Fundingport, our joint venture with Hypoport, into a brokerage platform for SME loans,” said Ralph…
Firms’ hunger for credit is low
Frankfurt The slack in loans to companies and the self-employed is more pronounced than expected: the KfW development bank has lowered its forecasts in the current KfW loan market outlook.…
Firms’ hunger for credit is low
Frankfurt The slack in loans to companies and the self-employed is more pronounced than expected: the KfW development bank has lowered its forecasts in the current KfW loan market outlook.…
Why there are fewer and fewer entrepreneurs in the Bundestag
Berlin For Rainer Kirchdörfer, board member of the Family Business Foundation, the matter is clear. More entrepreneurs in parliaments could contribute to a better mutual understanding between politics and business.…
Why there are fewer and fewer entrepreneurs in the Bundestag
Berlin For Rainer Kirchdörfer, board member of the Family Business Foundation, the matter is clear. More entrepreneurs in parliaments could contribute to a better mutual understanding between politics and business.…
Why there are fewer and fewer entrepreneurs in the Bundestag
German Bundestag A total of 735 members will sit in the new Bundestag. (Photo: dpa) Berlin For Rainer Kirchdörfer, board member of the Family Business Foundation, the matter is clear.…
Jan Bredack’s company goes public
A Veganz supermarket in Berlin Dusseldorf Jan Bredack has meticulously prepared this moment for a good two years. In 2019 he converted his company Veganz into an AG. In two…
Ranking: Germany’s 100 fastest growing medium-sized companies
Production at Peter Huber Kältemaschinenbau The Offenburg company was in first place in the “Top 100” ranking this year. (Photo: Peter Huber Kältemaschinenbau) Cologne Carbon concrete, a mixture of wood…
These are Germany’s 100 fastest growing medium-sized companies
Production at Peter Huber Kältemaschinenbau The Offenburg company was in first place in the “Top 100” ranking this year. (Photo: Peter Huber Kältemaschinenbau) Cologne Carbon concrete, a mixture of wood…
This is how the job change from a corporation to a medium-sized enterprise succeeds
Headhunter Norbert Graschi Norbert Graschi himself worked for various DAX companies before he switched to the personnel consultancy firm Signium. Dusseldorf Ejector seat instead of career turbo: That was not…
Innovations in Germany: Research funding stopped
research Experts repeatedly recommend targeted research funding. (Photo: imago images / Westend61) Berlin Since Thursday, 8 p.m., the Federal Ministry of Economics has stopped accepting applications from SMEs for innovation…
Susanne Klatten starts a start-up center for medium-sized companies
Munich When delegations from China came to Germany in the past, they were often interested in one question: How do you build family businesses? In the republic of the “hidden…
These are the biggest annoyances for companies
“Small and medium-sized companies are disproportionately burdened by legal requirements and thus by bureaucracy,” says Iris Plöger, member of the executive board of the Federal Association of German Industry (BDI),…
Andreas Pinkwart wants “Germany to take off digitally”
Dusseldorf Tracking contacts by phone, authorities with a lot of fax traffic: it is well known that Germany lags behind when it comes to digitization in an international comparison. North…