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From Birkenstock to Viessmann, a growing number of German companies are ending up in American hands. As business owners retire and struggle to find successors, US investors are stepping in. What's behind the trend?
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Is Germany becoming a more attractive place to invest again? Or are international investors seeing opportunities that Germans are overlooking?
"Besser Gehen, Birkenstock" was my first German Projects almost 25 Years ago.!
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And after the acquisition the product quality tanks 😊
Where and how to find company on sell?
Is this one of those things where a company with a great product gets bought and then the quality drops drastically until the brand is ruined?
OK, no more Birkenstocks for me!
The companies should rather be forwarded to the employees.
More US dependence is nothing we should wish for....
USA and Germany, best friends and inspiration for each other as always. Just like in the beginning of previous century...
I would like to think, that european wellregulated, predictable environments like Germany for instance, seem attractive to investors in more volatile economies like, unfortunately, the American where you don’t know, when or where the next tarrif might hit…
Is this a bad thing for the german economy in long run?
The companies should be expropriated and brought back to Germany while being owned by the workers working there.
German industries are going into the American people society
The vultures aka private equity arrives as soon as there is a crisis or vulnerability. Look at how fast German quality will go down next: they are here to make profits! Bye bye Birkenstock and all the others.
Germany is shrinking and relatively less wealthy/productive than the us so it make sense. I just hope the new owners appreciate what they buy 😅.
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So what?
I believe the USA is also targeting the data generated and accumulated over decades by the machinery used by German and European companies to create various physical products. US tech companies want to use this data to build powerful physical AI models.
The social welfare system delays economic growth. It’s really that simple.