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A Family Business That Thinks Globally - Auto Supplier Eberspächer

19.10.2012 made in germany Eberspärcher

Swabian company Eberspächer is a family-owned business now in its fifth generation. Today it supplies the auto industry with everything from bumpers to catalytic converters and car heaters.

Kasselmann Stables: A family business based on dressage horses

24.07.2012 MIG Made in Germany Pferde

Ullrich Kasselmann comes from a farming family. He's specialized in raising and training horses for dressage.

Henkelhausen engine services

17.07.2012 DW MADE IN GERMANY Henkelshausen

Lutz Goebel is president of “Die Familienunternehmer”, an advocacy group for family-owned businesses. He says policy-makers neglect family-owned companies.

Family Business - Alb-Gold Rolls out the Pasta

The two brothers at Alb-Gold were forced to take over the reins abruptly after the death of their father, Klaus Freidler. Alb-Gold is Germany’s second-largest pasta manufacturer.

All the Right Connections - The Weidmüller Family Enterprise

A lot of things in daily life would be unthinkable without the products made by Weidmüller. The company manufactures clamp terminals and plug connectors for all kinds of cables that transport power, signals or data.

The Bruns Family Business - Premium Trees from the Nursery

The village of Bad Zwischenahn in Lower Saxony is home to Europe’s largest tree nursery. Jan-Dieter Bruns heads the family firm, which was founded 136 years ago. The company specializes in the sale of premium trees.

Baby Food for Thought - The Hipp Family Business

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It’s a business dating back to 1899, when German confectioner Joseph Hipp created baby food for his own children using flour.

Family Business COR - furniture with tradition

The high-end sofas and armchairs designed by COR are found in living rooms in New Zealand, in hotel lobbies in Dubai and on cruise ships.

Fuchs Petrolub - A family firm stops things seizing up

In 1931, Rudolf Fuchs set up an import and sales company for refinery products. Now Fuchs Petrolub is a world leader in manufacturing innovative lubricants and related specialty products for industry.

The Family Boat Business

There are around a thousand inland waterway transporters in Germany today. One of those is the Mnich family of Mannheim. They're the seventh generation to live - and work - on the water.

Haniel - a German dynasty

The Haniel family business has been in operation for more than 250 years. In that time, the company has grown from a local coal dealer into a global business enterprise that even owns parts of Metro AG.

A Century of Fine Furniture: the Ursula Maier company

Ursula Maier Werkstätten has been making furniture for a century in the small town of Markgröningen in southwestern Germany. The company has been in the same family for four generations.

The Knauer Family Business - Motivating Employees as a Formula for Success

Alexandra Knauer took the family business over from her father and pulled it back from the brink of disaster. In 2010 she won the Veuve Clicquot Businesswoman of the Year award.

The Krone family business - leaders in agricultural machinery

The BIG X forage harvester is the most powerful agricultural machine in the world. It has a 1000 horsepower engine. It's made by the Krone group.

Meiner-Verlag – A philosophical business

Meiner is a family-run publishing house based in Hamburg. It specializes in books on eastern philosphy. The business was founded in 1911. Manfred Meiner is a third generation company director.

Made in Germany

Family Business

Even in modern business life it is hard to imagine the economy without them. Ninety-five percent of firms are run as family businesses. Some of them have been successful for decades - even centuries.

MADE IN GERMANY tells the story of the country's family enterprises, their business concepts, their struggle for markets, their regional roots, their unique executive style and the relationship between management and staff.

Family businesses are the backbone of the German economy. They account for 41% of German companies' sales and for 57% of all jobs in the country. Between 2003 and 2005 the 500 largest family-run firms increased their staff by 10% to 2.2 million employees in Germany, compared to a three percent reduction for the country's entire economy. That makes family businesses the German job motor.

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