VEREN A B AH LSEN L YDI A FORTE


VERENA BAHLSEN


COMPANY HERMANN’S, BAHLSEN COUNTRY GERMANY


A fourth-generation member of German biscuit manufacturer Bahlsen, Verena co-founded its innovation vehicle


HERMANN’S, naming the unit after her great grandfather. With HERMANN’S, she aims to connect new innovators and traditional food companies to form a collaborative ecosystem, and together build practical innovation projects. It provides an all-day restaurant, event location, test kitchen, and film studio which experiments with the future of food. It aims to eventually provide consultancy services to different elements of the food industry about future trends within and outside of Bahlsen.


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JAMES COTTINGHAM


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ACQUISITION SPECIALIST COMPANY DK ENGINEERING COUNTRY UNITED KINGDOM


Whether it be promoting DK Engineering through racing, and rallies, using his engineering expertise or introducing digital innovations, 33-year-old James Cottingham has a lot of fun at his family’s second-generation Ferrari specialist. He has helped to develop a number of side projects that today play an important role in the business. One project was DK’s website, which serves as a powerful tool for client acquisition and sales, the other was social media. Each video on its YouTube channel is viewed thousands of times and its Instagram account (run by James) has more than 41,000 followers.


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