Tag: Otto
Miriam Wohlfarth: The maker
Miriam Wohlfahrt As managing director and founder of Ratepay and Banxware, Miriam Wohlfarth is one of the first fintech founders in Germany. Dusseldorf Our country finds itself in one of…
Climate protection is becoming a matter of survival for retailers
Dusseldorf Many bakers complain that they are threatened with bankruptcy due to rising energy costs. This is not an issue for Roland Schüren: His bakery in Haan in the Rhineland…
Automanager becomes new head of fashion chain
Dusseldorf S.Oliver has a new boss: The fashion chain will be headed by Jürgen Otto, most recently CEO of the insolvent auto parts supplier Borgers. The industry magazine “Textilwirtschaft” first…
Black Friday sales plummet
Dusseldorf In view of the general reluctance to buy, online retailers in Germany had high hopes for the Black Friday sales event. But many of them may have been disappointed.…
Otto boss on falling sales & rising costs
Alexander Birken The head of the Otto Group is experiencing a slump in sales in Germany, but growth in foreign business. (Photo: Isadora Tast) Hamburg The Otto Group achieved record…
Otto boss on falling sales & rising costs
Alexander Birken The head of the Otto Group is experiencing a slump in sales in Germany, but growth in foreign business. (Photo: Isadora Tast) Hamburg The Otto Group achieved record…
Nine jobs that will earn you six figures without being the boss
experts in companies Specialist instead of boss: more and more companies are offering expert careers that are equivalent to management careers in terms of salary and benefits. (Photo: Imago (2),…
RTL Deutschland gets new finance and HR managers
Ingrid Heisserer (left), Xenia Meuser New top managers for RTL Germany. (Photo: L’Oréal) Dusseldorf The media company RTL Germany is continuing to restructure its board of directors. After co-boss Stephan…
Which online retailers charge fees for returns
Amazon packages The online retailer does not want customers to share in the costs of returns. (Photo: imago/Press Service North) Dusseldorf Most online retailers still allow customers to return their…
How managers deal with ruminations at work
Managers Kühne, Rorsted, Descours, Renner, Hendel, Dawo, Rower Dusseldorf First Henkel, now Adidas: In his 14 years as CEO, Kasper Rorsted had to make many decisions. Even difficult ones that…
The Germans in the pension trap – Morning Briefing
It’s the weekend, late summer and without thinking about the gas bill, and I don’t want to spoil your mood with the latest shelling situation in the Ukraine, including Crimea.…
Sensoo attracts online customers with tailor-made sofas
Dusseldorf Stephan Rom can’t help with the eureka moment of a sudden business idea at the kitchen table in the student flat share. “That wasn’t the classic, romantic start-up story,”…
Susanne Klatten’s love for start-ups
It is the commitment of Germany’s richest woman (who doesn’t want to be reduced to just that) to family businesses and start-ups, to a vibrant economic structure. To this end,…
Hardware and software as a threat
Dusseldorf It doesn’t matter how the gas and oil crisis goes: as long as the mainframes in Frankfurt are running, the residents of Westville will be cozy and warm. Because…
Head of Germany Stefanie Kemp goes to Sana Kliniken
Stefanie Kemp With the appointment of the manager, Sana Kliniken is sending a clear signal of how important the company is to digital transformation. She is an experienced manager and…
Miranda Otto kehrt als Éowyn im neuen Herr der Ringe-Animationsfilm zurück
Machen Sie sich bereit, nach Mittelerde zurückzukehren. Wir sprechen nicht über die kommende Fernsehserie „Der Herr der Ringe: Die Ringe der Macht“, sondern über einen neuen Animationsfilm über den Fall…
Otto wants to take over Deutsche Euroshop completely
Altmarkt Gallery in Dresden The shopping center is part of the Deutsche Euroshop portfolio. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Major shareholder Alexander Otto wants to completely incorporate the shopping center investor Deutsche…
Nancy Faeser raises awareness for the catastrophes of the turning point
maybe the queues at the supermarket checkouts are a little longer today and the shelves with toilet paper, pasta and fish cans are emptied faster. If so, then it would…
How the transformation in the company succeeds
Fresh paint Whitewashing instead of transformation: it takes more than values prescribed by management to change corporate culture. (Photo: DigitalVision/Getty Images) Dusseldorf Cultural change can develop destructive forces. At Samsung…
These ten soft skills courses will advance your career
Young woman in the home office Time management or rhetoric know-how is gaining in importance in the virtual work environment. (Photo: DigitalVision/Getty Images) Dusseldorf The so-called “soft skills” are increasingly…