Platform for new ideas and networking

Ensuring the sustainability of the results from the Management Training Programme in the partner countries and Germany is the primary objective of the work done by GIZ alumni. This includes the task of maintaining lasting links and connections between the alumni or their companies with the German industry. Continue reading

From automobile tyres to water hoses

Recycling automobile tyres had been the primary business activity of Schynbolat Baikulow and his company KazKauchuk GmbH since 2010. They collected discarded tires and then had the Kazakhstan Rubber Recycling Plant process them to produce rubber granulate with various degrees of grain size. Continue reading

Business Development in Volatile Markets

What characterises volatile markets? What challenges do volatile markets pose for business development? What strategies for action are successful when dealing with volatile markets? These and further questions on the topic of business development were discussed by 15 Indian entrepreneurs and executives at the follow-up in Delhi. Continue reading

Quality management for sea buckthorn

Of all fruits, it turned out to be the sea buckthorn – a type of berry largely unknown in Mexico – that was the centre of attention for Mexican executives who visited the company Christine Berger GmbH & Co. KG in Petzow at Potsdam, in late September of 2015 as part of their management Training Programme. Continue reading