Insights

Every company and each employee are unique and have a distinct history. The following texts offer an impression of the motivation, perspective and convictions of the people behind the stories.

ATEK Drive Solutions

‘You rarely get the chance to do everything from scratch.’

Sebastian Sturm, Managing Director of ATEK Drive Solutions GmbH, on both the merger of Deutsche van Rietschoten & Houwens GmbH and ATEK Antriebstechnik Willi Glapiak GmbH and how to grow as a new system provider for drive solutions.

BID Group

The talent factory

The shortage of skilled workers hits the companies beyond the pull of the large urban centres especially hard. The BID Group in the Upper Franconian town of Coburg is also confronted with this challenge. Here, we simply develop the urgently needed specialist expertise in-house instead of investing huge amounts of time and effort searching for it.

ROPEX Industrie-Elektronik GmbH

Too small to grow?

International markets are a major challenge for small and medium-sized enterprises: on the one hand, they can often only increase their growth significantly through exports, but at the same time seldom have the necessary resources to compete in all markets. ROPEX has been asserting itself in this field of tension for many years.

inotec Barcode Security

Secret recipes

Investing in new products is worthwhile even for a medium-sized company. Jana Zemke tinkers with extra robust adhesives and materials at inotec Barcode Security. This creates unique products that contribute to the company’s high profitability.

inotec Barcode Security

“At first one actually thinks one will live forever.”

At the age of 66, Mo Bader cannot imagine simply to do nothing. And yet, he sold his company. How now to live a life that has always been about work? A conversation.

Holzhauer-Pumpen

I’m done at 70

Hans-Joachim Holzhauer built a successful business. The company is his life's work. The most difficult step is still ahead: saying goodbye.