where Business meets innovation
CURAZE is a global invite-only business network. Our mission is to empower corporate decision makers, innovators, and start-ups across all industries to connect, collaborate, and invent their future businesses together.
executives
Connect and build valuable partnerships in a trustful atmosphere. CURAZE enables you to solve pressing business challenges and to easily keep pace with the speed of innovation.
Start- & Scale-ups
Increase your visibility and get connected to top executives and advisors. In short, we create business opportunities for start- and scale-ups – an important value driver for any new venture.
Enablers
Explore new ways to showcase your expertise as a high-profile expert to decision makers who are looking for professional support.
Investors
Choose from a variety of different formats and innovative tools to increase the visibility of your portfolio and connect your start-ups to relevant corporates.
How we support you

MATCHMAKING
ONE TO ONE
At CURAZE we provide a wide range of trustworthy and curated services to find the next big idea and the right partner to collaborate or share insights with.
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EVENTS
ONE TO FEW
CURAZE offers new ways of pitching business cases, engaging, and connecting deeply with top industry decision makers, innovators, and start- & scale-ups. Get inspired and team up to push your business forward.
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Stories
ONE TO MANY
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- Retail & DTC
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- Consumer Brands
- Real Estate & Construction
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Cross Vertical
- Health
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- Marketing & Sales
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- Enterprise Tech
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- Industry 4.0
- Mobility
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Technologies
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Executives
Get listed with your personal profile in the member section of CURAZE and connect peer-to-peer with other top-level executives across all industries.
Stefan Vellekoop
Otto Krahn Group
Other
Plastic & Packaging
Christof Kölschbach
Jokey SE
Sales, Business Development, Product Management, Marketing, Sustainability/ESG
Food & Beverages, Construction & Real Estate, Plastic & Packaging
Start-Ups
Meet change makers, explore visionary ideas, and find relevant start-ups.

cofenster GmbH
Professional video production in only 10 minutes
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cofenster GmbH
Hamburg, Germany | www.cofenster.com
Industries: All industries
Clients: Carlsberg | Mitsubishi | REWE Group | Beierdorf | STADA | Microsoft

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Technology Mobile | Enterprise Software | AI
Objectives Employer Branding
Offer Customer Interaction | Digital Marketing | Social Media | Internal Communication | Content production and management | Branding
Departments Sales | Product Management | Marketing

everstox GmbH
Connect, optimize, and scale flexible warehousing and fulfilment
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everstox GmbH
Munich, Germany | everstox.com
Industries: All industries
Clients: Greenforce | Sanity Group | Razor Group | YFood

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Being a VC backed, dynamic, and ambitious team with first-class entrepreneurial and tech background, we aim to deliver tech-driven logistics solutions to complex operational problems.
We are passionate about optimizing the flow of goods through Europe, solving inefficiencies in warehousing and fulfilment operations, and reducing transport emissions along the supply chain. Ultimately we want to make first-class distribution accessible for independent retailers of any size to compete with established giants like Amazon. Simply the best delivery experience, for every customer.
Technology Enterprise Software | Business Information Systems
Objectives Customer Experience/Satisfaction | Transparency | Efficiency | Growth
Offer Business Intelligence | Multichannel Sales | Logistics and Delivery | Forecasting and Prediction | Customer Experience | Automation of Processes
Departments Management | Logistics | IT
Enablers
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Claudia Leimkühler
SBC Sustainable Business Consulting GmbH
Management
Consulting
Alisa Türck
Türck GmbH
Consultancy/Advisory
Consulting
Investors
Connect with the leading minds of the venture eco-system.
Alexander Gedat
Alexander Gedat
Business Development, Controlling, HR, Finance, Management, Sales, Strategy, Sustainability/ESG
Consumer Brands, Fashion & Textile, Investor
Michael Rager
DTCP
Venture
Investor
our mentors
Explore our board of mentors. Proven experts who add unique insights to our network and provide valuable experience.
UPCOMING EVENTS

CIRCULAZE Virtual Trend Tour Plastics & Packaging
Join us on Monday October 9th at 17:00 CEST as we take a look at three innovative start-up solutions to reduce the impact plastics and packaging have on our environment. After each start-ups pitch, you the audience, will have the opportunity to ask the start-ups questions directly

CIRCULAZE Summit and Night 2023
Join us November 7th and 8th in Munich for two days of mind-blowing experiences that will leave you inspired and motivated. Get your tickets now!
VIEW PAST EVENTS

CIRCULAZE Virtual Trend Tour Mobility
25 September, 2023
On Thursday September 28th at 17:00 CEST our first virtual Trend Tour of the season took place. We heard from two start-ups on their circular mobility solutions.

SXSW Halftime
14 September, 2023
On Thursday September 14th, CURAZE organized a special SXSW Halftime event in Berlin to reflect and discuss the impressions and impulses from the past tour together. And to get excited for the next SXSW!

CIRCULAZE Summer Talk
06 July, 2023
On July 6th together with ODDO BHF, we will host an exclusive CIRCULAZE Summer Talk on "Sustainability as a Security Strategy: How Companies are Positioning Themselves More Resiliently in an Unstable World Order".

CIRCULAZE Virtual Trend Tour Digital Solutions – Circular in Motion
29 June, 2023
Powered by blockchain, Circular in Motion has developed a platform for circular materials buying and selling.

CIRCULAZE Virtual Trend Tour Digital Solutions – Reflaunt
29 June, 2023
Reflaunt’s technology solution connects retail brands and their customers to multiple second-hand marketplaces.
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CORPORATES THAT HAVE ALREADY JOINED CURAZE

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Die 1825 gegründete Freie Sparkasse ist heute eine Netzwerkorganisation mit selbstorganisierten Teams und zählt zu den größten deutschen Sparkassen. Die Sparkasse Bremen gehörte mehrfach zu den Besten von "Great Place to Work" und erhielt 2019 dafür den „Silver Award“. Sie gehört zu den „Leading Employers“ 2020 und damit zu den Top 1 % der Arbeitgeberinnen und Arbeitgeber in Deutschland.
Die Sparkasse Bremen ist ein starker Partner des Mittelstands und begleitet unternehmerisches Wachstum mit Branchenexpertise und Kompetenz vor Ort. Das exklusive Private Banking beinhaltet eine professionelle Vermögensverwaltung sowie ein Stiftungs- und Generationenmanagement. Ihren Privatkunden bietet die Sparkasse Bremen mehrfach ausgezeichnete Beratungsleistungen rund ums Sparen und Finanzieren sowie zu Vorsorge- und Immobilienthemen.
Fast 200 Jahre Engagement für Bremen: Über Generationen hinweg ist die Sparkasse Bremen mit ihren Kunden verbunden und verzichtet dabei auf Gewinnmaximierung. Vielmehr investiert sie einen erheblichen Teil ihrer Erträge in die Lebensqualität der Bremerinnen und Bremer - vom Kindergarten über den Sportverein bis hin zu den großen kulturellen Highlights der Stadt. Jede Kundin, jeder Kunde der Sparkasse Bremen verbessert so gleichzeitig die Lebensqualität in seinem Stadtteil und in ganz Bremen. Besonderes Augenmerk gilt dabei der Förderung von Kindern und Jugendlichen. stark. fair. hanseatisch. // www.sparkasse-bremen.de

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The company was founded 1962 in Hamburg and has a long tradition of success in its regional core market of Germany. After achieving strong domestic and international growth in recent years, the Tom Tailor GmbH has made profitability the focus of its strategy, structures and processes, and is concentrating on its core sales markets. Along with Germany, these include Austria, Switzerland, south-eastern Europe and Russia.
The Tom Tailor GmbH is among the top ten of Germanys fashion provider. With over 6,000 Employees, more than 1,000 company stores and around 11,500 other points of sale the company generates around one third of its total sales outside Germany. The GmbH is present in 35 countries.

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In Germany as well as internationally, s.Oliver stands for fashion for all personalities and every occasion. Through monthly changing collections and an appealing brand portfolio, s.Oliver can realise fashion trends particularly fast and for a broad audience. In this respect, s.Oliver values staying close to its markets and customers. The fashion is distinguished by a high quality level and an eye for detail, a good price/performance ratio and comfortable cuts. Since its foundation in 1969, the company has grown into one of Europe's leading clothing manufacturers with a turnover exceeding one billion euros.
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150 Jahren Tradition: ETERNA unterstreicht seit 1863 mit höchsten Qualitätsanforderungen und zahlreichen Innovationen seinen Anspruch als führender Hersteller von Hemden und Blusen mit Sitz in Passau (Deutschland) täglich aufs Neue. Dabei kann ETERNA als Spezialist das tiefe Wissen um das Kernsortiment voll ausspielen – hohe Passformtreue, Varianz in Ärmellänge sowie Kragenformen sind nur einige Beispiele. Im Jahr 2019 setzte ETERNA rund 4,3 Millionen Hemden, Blusen, Krawatten und Accessoires ab.
Direkt am Kunden: ETERNA ist an ca. 3.600 Point of Sales in mehr als 40 Ländern vertreten. Als vertikaler Anbieter verfügt ETERNA mit eigenen Stores und dem Onlinehandel auch über eigene Vertriebskanäle. Die ETERNA-Produkte werden derzeit in mehr als 55 Retail-Stores und in 11 Franchise-Stores vertrieben.
Umwelt- und sozialverträglich: Die Nachhaltigkeit der europäischen Wertschöpfungskette steht unter ständiger Kontrolle unabhängiger Institute. Bereits seit dem Jahr 2000 sind die Produkte von ETERNA durch den höchsten Standard im Markt, OEKO-TEX® 100plus (seit 2015 "Made in Green"), zertifiziert, was das Passauer Unternehmen zum weltweiten Vorreiter in der Branche machte. Dieses Gütesiegel bestätigt, dass alle Betriebe und Zulieferer der gesamten Herstellungskette lückenlos den beiden Richtlinien des OEKO-TEX® Standard 100 und STeP by OEKO-TEX® entsprechen. Mit Stoffen höchster Qualität und der firmeneigenen Europa-Produktion setzt ETERNA auf verantwortungsvoll produzierte Mode. Unter dem Hashtag #naturally kommuniziert ETERNA alle Anstrengungen im Sinne der Nachhaltigkeit und setzt dabei auf Transparenz: Als erstes Modeunternehmen gibt ETERNA vollen Einblick in die gesamte Lieferkette – für jeden einfach nachvollziehbar unter Eingabe der EAN-Nummer auf der Internetseite www.eterna-naturally.com/de .


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IBM is a leading cloud platform and cognitive solutions company. Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are the largest technology and consulting employer in the world, with more than 350,000 employees serving clients in 170 countries. With Watson, the AI platform for business, powered by data, we are building industry-based solutions to real-world problems. For more than seven decades, IBM Research has defined the future of information technology with more than 3,000 researchers in 12 labs located across six continents

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Innovation for a Better Life. Always.

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As a family-run company, RITZENHOFF remains true to tradition. The company has evolved over the years from a glass-making workshop to become one of Germany’s most renowned high-tech glass manufacturers. We are the only glass manufacturers in Europe to provide all the services needed for the development and production of glassware from a single source.
One thing that remains unchanged at RITZENHOFF is our focus on the production and decoration of glasses for the beverage industry. In addition to producing and selling glasses for the brewing and mineral water industries, we have also established an important secondary source of revenue in selling RITZENHOFF brand products to specialist retailers. We sell products marketed under the RITZENHOFF brand name in more than 100 countries around the globe.
For many years now, RITZENHOFF has successfully maintained its position as market leader in the beverage industry with stemmed glassware (exclusive items) with a market share of well over 50% in Germany.
An additional company mainstay is in promotional items and B2B operations where RITZENHOFF provides a one-stop range of services: from product research to product design and packaging development through to the delivery of goods.
In February 2005, Designer Homewares Distribution GmbH—a 100 per cent subsidiary of RITZENHOFF—premiered the Australian label MAXWELL & WILLIAMS at the AMBIENTE in Frankfurt with resounding success! Since its establishment on the German market, M&W continues to delight and convince specialist retailers and customers alike with affordable designer homeware.

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In 2020, the BMW Group sold over 2.3 million passenger vehicles and more than 169,000 motorcycles worldwide. The profit before tax in the financial year 2020 was € 5.222 billion on revenues amounting to € 98.990 billion. As of 31 December 2020, the BMW Group had a workforce of 120,726 employees.
The success of the BMW Group has always been based on long-term thinking and responsible action. The company set its course for the future early on and is making sustainability and resource efficiency the focus of the company’s strategic direction – from the supply chain, through production, to the end of the use phase, for all its products.

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Deutschland braucht eine Starke Schiene! Dabei stellen wir als Unternehmen Deutsche Bahn AG ein inneres Anliegen in den Mittelpunkt: für das Klima, für die Menschen, für die Wirtschaft, für Europa. Das starke Wachstum unserer Kapazitäten im Personen- und Güterverkehr erfordert qualifizierte Mitarbeitende wie Dich! Wir werden allein in den nächsten Jahren über 100.000 neue Mitarbeiter einstellen und machen damit die Deutsche Bahn robuster, schlagkräftiger und moderner. Wir fokussieren uns auf das, was uns stark und erfolgreich macht.

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The metaverse will be social
3D spaces in the metaverse will let you socialize, learn, collaborate and play in ways that go beyond what we can imagine. Listen to Mark Zuckerberg share our vision for bringing the metaverse to life together.

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Unsere Mission ist es, Erlebnisse zu schaffen und unsere Kunden dazu zu ermutigen, sie selbst zu sein! Echt zu sein, zu experimentieren und sich immer wieder neu zu erfinden.
Um unsere Erfolgsstory weiter zu schreiben sind wir immer auf der Suche nach talentierten Köpfen, die unsere NEW YORKER Familie mit mehr als 19.000 Mitarbeitern noch mehr bereichern.
NEW YORKER steht nicht nur für flache Hierarchien und kurze Entscheidungswege, sondern auch für Leidenschaft, Inspiration und Kreativität! Ein einzigartiges Arbeitsumfeld! Unsere Mitarbeiter teilen die Liebe zur Mode und haben dabei stets Mut zu Innovationen. Wir suchen Kollegen, die uns mit ihrer Persönlichkeit und Begeisterung vorantreiben und ständig aufs Neue beflügeln. Unkompliziert, inspirierend und immer bereit, in neue Welten einzutauchen. NEW YORKER – Do what you love!

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Founded in 1973 and today listed at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, GERRY WEBER International AG has grown into one of the best known fas¬ion and lifestyle companies with almost 590 companymanaged stores and sales spaces, some 2,230 stores an spaces managed by partners as well as brand online-shops in nine countries. With some 2,300 employees worldwide and distribution channels in 59 countries, the GERRY WEBER Group is one of the most important fashion companies in Germany.

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Unsere 8.000 Mitarbeiter und Mitarbeiterinnen geben alles, um die Digitalisierung von Geschäftsprozessen unserer Mitglieder, Kunden und Kundinnen voranzutreiben.
Als Genossenschaft ist uns dabei das Miteinander besonders wichtig. Deswegen lautet unser Slogan „Zukunft gestalten. Gemeinsam“. Denn #WirsindDATEV! Werden auch Sie Teil eines Unternehmens, das Beständigkeit mit Innovationskraft vereint.

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Wir sind Innovatoren, die Veränderungen annehmen und hart dafür arbeiten, anderen zu helfen und so erfolgreich zu sein. Wir glauben an eine offene Kommunikation und übernehmen Verantwortung, denn unsere Fans und Kunden zählen täglich auf uns. Wir streben nach Benutzerfreundlichkeit für unsere Kunden und Fans und suchen Menschen, die es mögen aktiv zu handeln und sich dabei an vereinbarte Richtlinien zu halten.
Live Nation Entertainment ist das größte Live-Entertainment-Unternehmen der Welt und setzt sich aus den folgenden Marktführern zusammen: Ticketmaster, Live Nation und House of Blues Concerts, Live Nation Media und Artist Nation Management. Bewirb dich noch heute online unter ticketmaster.de/karriere und werde Teil des Ticketmaster Teams!

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LEAVE YOUR FOOTPRINT AT JACK WOLFSKIN.
What does it take for a footprint? Right, a firm stand! And that is what we give to our employees because they are the ones that support our mutual success. Together we can stand out of the crowd as an innovative brand for the perfect outdoor gear. For this mission we need courageous climbers and thinkers with a keen sense for trends and comfort.
We develop products for people who love being outdoors, who have fun getting exercise, reaching their goals and discovering new things, who appreciate the countryside and treat people and nature with respect. JW was founded in 1981 and since then has developed first-class, functional products on the basis of constant user feedback. With numerous patents and innovative, proprietary technologies, JW products currently lead the way in function, comfort and user benefits, and are now used all over the world.

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Unzählige Testsiege, positive Kundenbewertungen und 110 Jahre Familientradition ebnen den Weg dieser Erfolgsgeschichte. Bei ROSE Bikes arbeiten über 300 Mitarbeiter jeden Tag daran, durch unseren europaweit ausliefernden Webshop und die beiden preisgekrönten ROSE Stores in Bocholt und München, noch mehr Menschen zum Radfahren zu bewegen. Das ist unser Ziel. Daran arbeiten wir jeden Tag mit Hochdruck. Für eine Welt mit weniger PKW-Verkehr, weniger schädlichen Abgasen – und dafür mit mehr fitten und gesunden Fahrradfahrern! Wir bauen die besten Bikes, damit Jedermann umweltfreundlich und gesundheitsfördernd mit dem Rad zur Arbeit fahren kann. Wir bauen die besten Bikes, damit Leute mit eingeschränkter Mobilität dank ihrem E-Bike wieder mobil sind. Wir bauen die besten Bikes, damit du beim Rennen deine Höchstleistung abrufen kannst. Wir bauen die besten Bikes, damit du dich beim Bike-Wochenende voll und ganz auf dein Equipment verlassen kannst. … Jedem Einzelnen wollen wir ein custom made Fahrrad anbieten, genau passend zum individuellen Einsatzgebiet.

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CALIDA ist ein Unternehmen aus Sursee in der Schweiz, gegründet 1941. Begonnen haben wir mit Damenwäsche, aber längst produzieren wir Tag- und Nachtwäsche für Frauen, Männer und Kinder. Heute verkaufen wir sie in 130 Marken-Stores sowie mit 3'000 Vertriebspartnern erfolgreich in der ganzen Welt. Es hat sich viel verändert in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten, aber eins nicht: das Ziel, die beste Qualität zu produzieren. In jedem einzelnen Stück.
CALIDA – BORN IN SWITZERLAND.


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Our more than 20.000 employees in more than 170 affiliates all over the world are the reason why we can grow fast and sustainably. Behind each brand, each product and each success are our people whose passion and entrepreneurial spirit make us the No.1 skin care company in the world. And our care has always gone further:
We at Beiersdorf CARE BEYOND SKIN. We care for people and are committed expand our positive impact to our environment, our society and our consumers.


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We have over 165 years of successful experience in risk management. We have experienced various economic cycles and a number of financial crises. Our ability to adapt and the fact that our strategies always have a long-term focus make us a reliable partner for our clients.


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The family-owned Otto Krahn Group includes the plastics distributor ALBIS, the KRAHN Chemie Group, the plastics compounder MOCOM and the recycling specialist WIPAG. With an annual turnover of approx. 1.5 billion €, the group of companies is represented at 39 locations worldwide with around 1,700 employees.
TOP INVESTMENT COMPANIES WHO PARTNER WITH CURAZE

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The team’s expertise includes 70+ investments, 30+ successful trade sales and 13+ IPOs as well as broad professional experience across various industries and functions.
Capnamic unites institutional and corporate investors thus offering its portfolio companies a unique network of sparring partners and customers.
The firm’s general partners are Jörg Binnenbrücker, Olaf Jacobi, and Christian Siegele.

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Despite China obvious attractiveness as a market due to its size and scalability potential, Western start-ups often rule it out of their international expansion plans as it is perceived as an extremely complicated market to access.
SANPEI VENTURES aim to solve this problem, putting at work not only our extensive experience in China and Europe but also full operational capabilities to help Western start-ups set foot and accelerate their growth in Chinese market.
We identify DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES with scalability potential in China, and fully support their expansion locally by providing funding, full operational support via our in-house team and generation of qualified sales leads with top tier corporations, in order to maximize their growth in China and APAC.
Our unique model consists on developing local 50/50 JOINT-VENTURES: Start-ups don’t need to invest in the Joint-Venture, they just need to provide to the Joint-Venture with exclusive, perpetual rights of their technology in the territory. Sanpei Ventures funds the Joint-Venture and operates it throughout its development in the territory.
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ENABLERS & PARTNERS ON CURAZE

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As a multichannel marketing platform PAYBACK communicates synchronously via all channels – offline, online and on the move – and, in doing so, provides the optimum combination of coverage and personalization. Companies are able to run integrated campaigns via all available channels. They can get their message across to customers at the right time and the right place and, as a result, maximize their ROI.

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With their extensive know-how in the field of digital transformation, the employees of Hager Unternehmensberatung are competent contacts when it comes to the digitalisation of companies. In the current surveys of the magazines WirtschaftsWoche and Focus, Hager Unternehmensberatung has repeatedly been awarded and listed as one of the best personnel consultancies in the executive search sector.


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Das erfolgreiche Bearbeiten unserer Executive & Board Search Mandate und aktive Mitgestalten des Arbeitsweltwandels ist unser Anspruch als Vollblut-Unternehmer. Wir beraten die internationale Fashion- und Lifestylebranche mit wachsendem Engagement im gesamten Consumer Goods Markt.

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Idee und Struktur von MMM sind einzigartig: Gegründet 1962, haben wir heute über 600 Mitgliedsunternehmen aus Handel, Industrie und damit verbundenen Wirtschaftszweigen, Schwerpunkt Food. Herz und Seele des Clubs ist der Mittelstand, die erfolgreichen Familienunternehmen. Wir sind ein Verein, non-profit, kein Verband.

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