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Consumer Goods, Retail

Strategic Transformation“Careers Don’t Just Happen”

Sylvie Nicol is the Man­age­ment Board mem­ber in charge of human resources, infra­struc­ture, and sus­tain­abil­i­ty world­wide at Henkel, a Ger­man indus­try and con­sumer goods com­pa­ny per­haps best known for its Per­sil laun­dry deter­gent. A native of France now in her third decade with the com­pa­ny, Nicol has come to stand for change and transformation.

10/2024

byRuth Lemmer
HIGH PERFORMANCE ENTERPRISEFor the Love of Milk

Any­one who leads one of Europe’s largest dairy enter­pris­es will need to bal­ance a tri­fec­ta of pro­duc­er, retail­er, and con­sumer inter­ests. The com­pa­ny will require a strong struc­ture in every respect. One based on qual­i­ty. With no room for compromise.

01/2024

byJürgen Hoffmann
SustainabilityTwo Women
Get Rid of Plastic

Plas­tic wraps, coat­ings, and sin­gle-use con­tain­ers—the syn­thet­ic con­tent in all these prod­ucts could be replaced by a bio-based gran­u­late called “Trace­less.” It is a fully com­postable nat­ur­al sub­stance with sim­i­lar prop­er­ties to plas­tic.

09/2022

byTanja Krupp
Strategic TransformationTattoo Transformation

Fam­i­ly-run com­pa­nies with long-stand­ing suc­cess­ful prod­ucts pre­fer to stick to their tra­di­tions. Change can be dif­fi­cult for them—unless the next gen­er­a­tion brings an unusu­al degree of courage. Like at Edding.

09/2022

byHeiner von der Laden and Tanja Krupp

Food for Thought

The corona­virus has also jolt­ed the food indus­try. Four man­agers explain how this led them to focus on essen­tials—and how they even dis­cov­ered some new oppor­tu­ni­ties.

09/2020

byVirginia Kirst
Technology Versus Pandemic

Dig­i­tal solu­tions are cen­tral to Nestlé’s Covid-19 come­back. CIO Fil­ip­po Cata­lano on the con­sumer goods giant’s response to cri­sis, the impor­tance of pre­pared­ness, and where big com­pa­nies go from here.

09/2020

byAndrew Curry