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The coachbuilding company Ellena S.r.l. based in Saluzzo, Northern Italy, operates in a unique niche: the production of exclusive hearses. For nearly 30 years, with...
Interview with Massimo Ellena, Managing Director of Ellena S.r.l.
Investing is a matter of trust. More than 1,700 private and corporate clients have already entrusted their assets to Capitell Vermögens-Management AG, based in Frankfurt...
Interview with Sven Karkossa, Board Member of Capitell Vermögens-Management AG
For over 30 years, D. Kaupke Leiterplatten Service GmbH has been a reliable partner for custom printed circuit board solutions. As a specialized service provider,...
Interview with Holger Enke, Managing Director of D. Kaupke Leiterplatten Service GmbH
Cologne as a vibrant hotspot for global industry meetings – what makes the cathedral city so irresistible for top events like gamescom, DMEXCO, or Anuga? Koelnmesse...
Interview with Oliver Frese, COO of Koelnmesse GmbH
ERP software for system houses - specialized and very close to the customer: c-entron Software GmbH from Ulm has been one of the leading providers in its niche for...
Interview with Volker Lehnert, Managing Director of c-entron Software GmbH
More and more people are switching from cars to bicycles. BLS Bikeleasing-Service GmbH & Co. KG, based in Vellmar, is supporting this development with its company...
Interview with Bastian Krause, Managing Director of BLS Bikeleasing-Service GmbH & Co. KG
Whether in the form of quick-service restaurants or bakery shops in retail food stores – system catering is clearly on the rise. ServiceKontor24 aims to grow with...
Interview with Hermann Kuper, Managing Director of ServiceKontor24 GmbH & Co. KG
Quality, precision, and durability of products are associations often linked with Switzerland – and they are no cliché. This is impressively proven by the cooking...
Interview with Robert Brokelmann, Managing Director of ELRO Commercial Kitchens GmbH Germany
Jazwares may only be known to industry insiders – but Pokémon and Squishmallows are no longer just familiar to every child. In an interview with Wirtschaftsforum,...
Interview with Ruven Rippe, Sales Director and Rafaela Dorodzala, Head of Brand and Marketing GSA & Benelux at Jazwares GmbH
A few years back, the Giner family from Tyrol took their centuries-old family farm into a bold new direction: In addition to producing staple agricultural goods...
Interview with Andreas Giner, CEO of Giner Agrarprodukte e.U.
Meat industry by-products shouldn’t go to waste, Lars Aashammer makes sure to emphasizes: His company, Biosirk Norge, processes them so they can be used to generate...
Interview with Lars Aashammer, CEO
For more than three decades, Joseph Abraham has been shaping the Austrian and European Kitchens market for Asian food products through his family-run company, MULACKAL....
Interview with Joseph Abraham, CEO of MULACKAL Handel Ges.mbH
Europe is a global leader in recycling and technologically very advanced. However, we feel the challenges that arise especially due to high energy prices and regulatory hurdles. Many companies are considering relocating abroad, but we continue to focus on the European market.
Beatrice Bartels, Managing Partner of DRH Deutsche Rohstoff Handelsgesellschaft mbH
With artisanal precision, an uncompromising commitment to quality, and a growing focus on sustainability, UCC Coffee Switzerland is positioning itself as a driving...
Interview with Barbara Friedli, Quality Assurance and Steffen Rutter, Head of Sales
With brands such as Segafredo, the Massimo Zanetti Beverage Group is among the most significant coffee companies worldwide. In conversation, Group CEO Pierluigi...
Interview with Pierluigi Tosato, Group CEO
Decaffeinated coffee has long led a shadowy existence – seen as a compromise rather than a true option. But that perception is changing rapidly. As consumers are...
Interview with Jens Eckhoff, Managing Director
Flatbreads, soft sandwich loaves and pre-baked focaccias – once traditional staples of Italian cuisine, today they are part of a booming European bakery sector driven...
Interview with Luigi Bravi, President and Owner
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In most restaurant and quick-service kitchens, frying oil rarely tops the list of priorities, even though it plays a crucial role in determining food quality and...
Interview with Grit Hofmann, General Manager
In a world where food is often overprocessed, overpromised and underexplained, consumers are searching for something real. Clean-label nutrition, plant-based alternatives...
Interview with Matthias Pfestorf, Managing Director
For nearly two centuries, Rhodius’ services have been in high demand as a contract bottler as well as a producer and distributor of both private-label and branded...
Interview with Hannes Tack, CEO
The plant-based market is booming worldwide, yet one crop has been largely overlooked – sunflowers. Sunbloom Proteins GmbH, headquartered in Munich, is on a mission...
Interview with Dr. Adriana Molina-Höppner, Head of Sales
Vegetarian, vegan, Clean Eating, Paleo, Low Carb – there are various ways to eat. The industry is in constant flux; what remains is the desire to eat healthily....
Interview with Anja Steinhaus-Nafe, Managing Director of Steinhaus GmbH
Italian cuisine is as popular as ever. Pizza, pasta, and the like are now also the most common dishes in restaurants and on private menus. A good pizza of course...
Interview with Dennis van Huet, Managing Director of ZZA B.V.
Few foods are as versatile and beloved as cheese. From a hearty breakfast staple to a refined ingredient in gourmet cuisine – and now even as a plant-based alternative...
Interview with Thorsten Persdorf, Managing Director
Having recently been acquired by the industrial cheese manufacturing trailblazer St. Paul Group, the Royal ERU cheese manufacturer, the Netherlands’ second best-known...
Interview with Audrey van Ham, Co-CEO
From its humble beginnings as a local butchery in Flanders to becoming a pan-European leader in the ready-meal segment, What’s Cooking? has undergone a remarkable...
Interview with Christophe Bolsius, CCO
From a humble market stall in Vienna to a pan-European food and lifestyle brand: What began in 2009 as a spontaneous family venture has grown into Gumpoldskirchen-based...
Interview with Ilan Molcho, CEO of NENI Holding GmbH
Bavarian cuisine is a rich tapestry of tradition, regional pride and evolving culinary art, reflecting its agricultural abundance and cultural heritage. The balance...
Interview with Felix Hasenberger, Bettina Willmerdinger-Milinkovic and Desimir Milinkovic Managing Directors, Altbayerische Küche GmbH
For more than 30 years, Ökoring Handels GmbH in Bavaria has been a trusted supplier of organically grown food to the organic retail sector, the hospitality industry,...
Interview with Thomas Börkey-Biermann, Managing Director of Ökoring Handels GmbH
Founded from humble beginnings as an agricultural cooperative in 1948, Nagykun 2000 has evolved into one of Hungary’s premier rice producers, cultivating 4,300 hectares...
Interview with Tamás Bori, Managing Director
Few companies manage to combine full-cycle food production, agricultural innovation and long-term stability as seamlessly as HÓDAGRO Zrt. Once burdened by debt,...
Interview with Lajos Szabó, CEO of HÓDAGRO Zrt.
Danish Crown Foods Germany GmbH, the Hamburg branch of the Danish Crown Group, plays a crucial role in aligning Danish production capabilities with the specific...
Interview with Christian Daub, Managing Director
Fermentation is more than a process, it’s a philosophy. At Alce s.r.l. in Novara, this mindset has shaped a family company into one of Europe’s leading specialists...
Interview with Federico Bruno, CEO of Alce s.r.l.