INDUSTRY EVENT


LEFT: Rolf Daiber surprised his longtime


companion Sigrid Gley with a huge bouquet. Far left is Rolf’s nephew, Kai Gminder.


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(Left to right): Kai Gminder (4th generation at Daiber),


Martina Gminder (Kai's wife)


Sigrid Gley (Rolf's partner) and Rolf Daiber (managing director).


he changed James & Nicholson T shirts and then kept on the one decorated with a transfer. Some of the guests found it difficult to distinguish between illusion and reality. Highlight of the evening was the entrance of Rolf Daiber and Kai Gminder. Rolf Daiber, who joined the company at just 20, looked back fondly. Significantly, he has left his mark on 40 out of the 100 years of the companyʼs existence.


Kai Gminder, who represents the fourth generation of the firm's history, provided an outlook for the future and the next 100 years of Gustav Daiber GmbH. With new sales tools and collections he wants to run the company equally successfully.


ehind every successful man stands a powerful woman. Rolf Daiber surprised his longtime companion Sigrid Gley by asking her onto stage and presenting her an enormous bouquet of flowers. Appropriate for the moment, Markus Linder had prepared the Daiber Song "What a wonderful Daiber" adapted from the original "What a wonderful world" by Louis Armstrong. With the last line of the song Rolf Daiber, Sigrid Gley and Kai Gminder turned towards their guests in thanks and bowed under a shower of tinsel in front of their audience.


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The Master of Ceremonies concluded the journey through the firm's history in the year 2004 with Kai Gminderʼs entering into the company and with the song "Die perfekte Welle”. He then handed over the stage to the party band "Südlich von Stuttgart“. Guests celebrated well into the early hours of the next morning on the "Sonnenkönigin". They didn't want to let this special day ever end – bring on the next 100 years!


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itting to the anniversary in 2012, the fourth generation of the family – Kai Gminder, the nephew of the managing director Rolf Daiber – will become a new member of the managing board and will gradually be taking on new responsibilities in the company. Said Rolf Daiber: "We see the anniversary as a milestone in the company's history which will serve future generations as a model and offers countless examples of bold yet wise corporate decisions.”


Kai Gminder said: "With the current team I can look forward to the future with very positive feelings.” The company is the only provider in all of Europe to offer a full range of promotion textiles. "We don't just offer a T shirt in various colours, but the whole range from jackets, jumpers and cardigans to gloves and caps," he adds.


"And that's what makes Daiber's success. Customers want more and more new technologies. In this section too Daiber has many innovations such as the energear caps or the upgrade-silver finishing." The aim is to continue along the same path for the next ten to 15 years and to become Europe's number one in caps and promotion textiles. And the 35-year old is optimistic: "I regard this aim as very realistic."


Additionally, Mr Gminder wants to raise the profile of their own brands, Myrtle Beach and James & Nicholson. "Within the industry we are already firmly established but we want to make our brands more visible to our consumers too,” Kai Gminder says.


■ For more information about Daiber visit www.fusiblesystems.co.uk


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