Tag: Pursue
Family businesses: How investors can invest
Porsche AG 911 at the Shanghai Auto Show The Porsche and Piëch families hold more than half of the voting rights in Volkswagen. (Photo: Bloomberg) Cologne Germany is considered the…
Dax & dates in the daily stock market report
Dusseldorf A quiet trading day is emerging on the German stock market. In several federal states, Thursday is a public holiday due to Corpus Christi. Before the market, the Dax…
The Besnier family conquers the global food industry
Paris The history of the world’s largest dairy begins with 17 handmade camemberts. Company founder André Besnier is said to have made this 90 years ago in the small town…
Viktoria Schütz’s difficult journey into her parents’ company
Victoria Schuetz The 38-year-old studied global management and marketing and lives in Berlin and in the Rhön. Dusseldorf Deguma-Schütz is a machine builder in the 5,000-inhabitant village of Geisa in…
Efficient cooling – Plastics specialist Rehau saves huge amounts of electricity
Dusseldorf For many industrial companies, the energy-intensive part of their production involves heat. They have to generate so-called process heat, for example in order to be able to melt and…
That is Miguel Ángel López Borrego’s agenda
Dusseldorf For Miguel Ángel López Borrego, a wish will come true this Thursday. Three German companies are known all over the world, Mercedes, Siemens and Thyssen-Krupp, he once said in…
Founding family secures control at Messer
Dusseldorf The largest private industrial gases manufacturer Messer gets a new shareholder in the Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC and restructures the group. This was announced by the family-run Messer…
How Pustefix developed a crisis-proof business with soap bubbles
blow fix Soap bubbles are permanent. This is also proven by the Pustefix sales figures, which have grown constantly over the past decades. (Photo: dpa) tubingen In art they stand…
China’s industrial profits collapse 18 percent in April
Port of Nantong Chinese industrial profits have plummeted, new figures show. (Photo: dpa) Beijing Chinese industrial companies’ profits plummeted in the first four months of 2023. This is according to…
Germany has lost its reputation as a country of inventors
high-tech factory Is the German economy running out of ideas for new products? (Photo: Engine for change and digitization) Berlin Germany threatens to fall further behind internationally as a country…
Adani shares recover after Hindenburg short attack
Gautam Adani The Indian billionaire gets support from a court in his dispute with a short seller. (Photo: IMAGO/NurPhoto) Dusseldorf Shares in the Indian conglomerate Adani Group are currently experiencing…
“We are the fire brigade for purchasing”
Ralph Buehler The head of Conrad Electronic wants to double sales on his online marketplace every year. (Photo: Conrad Electronics) Dusseldorf The family business Conrad Electronic has turned its business…
US corporations are lagging behind German companies in research and development
Dusseldorf There are numbers that give cause for concern with regard to Germany as a business location: The five most research-intensive US companies invested a total of 189 billion euros…
These German companies deliver for iPhone and Airpods
Apple iPhone models There is also a lot of technology from Germany in the devices of the US group. (Photo: IMAGO/AFLO) Dusseldorf Henkel is best known to the public for…
What Viessmann’s heat pump deal reveals about the energy transition
Dusseldorf Is it the beginning of the sell-out of German medium-sized companies or the rescue of the heat pump business in Germany? A political debate on this question began after…
EU court rejects lawsuits against RWE-Eon-Deal
RWE Campus Essen The European Commission has approved the purchase of Eon generation by RWE 2019. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf An important decision has been made regarding lawsuits by several energy…
Siemens Energy now expects increasing losses for the current fiscal year
Siemens Gamesa offshore wind turbine The business with renewable energies continues to pull down the entire Siemens Energy Group. (Photo: Reuters) Munich The energy technology specialist Siemens Energy is now…
This is how you lead a company out of a crisis
companies in transition There are various ways to strategically reposition a company – but mostly it requires a “radical change”. (Photo: IMAGO/MASKOT) Dusseldorf Many of the business models that companies…
Siemens starts selling airport logistics
Baggage system from Siemens If sold, the division could be valued at around 500 million euros. (Photo: Siemens) Munich, Frankfurt Siemens wants to use the improved mood in the aviation…
Sovereign wealth fund is negotiating entry into industrial gases group Messer
Messer CO2 recovery system: The gas group could soon get the sovereign wealth fund GIC as a new partner (Photo: obs) Frankfurt, Dusseldorf The German industrial gases manufacturer Messer wants…