Werner Schlieper
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The first big visitor to our new building - Dr. M. Schneider, CEO of the world-wide BAYER Group, our parent company. He brought a fellow board member from the head office in Leverkusen. The managing director of the BAYER Group in Japan, Mr. Kleedehn, had guided the visitors to our company.
(As Japan is a peaceful country there were no guards with the group - only one photographer. In South America there were in some countries sharp shooters on the roofs of the neighboring buildings, I was told.)
The picture shows me guiding these most important visitors (for our company's future) towards the elevator explaining our piece of art - the Six Sense of H&R. Dr. Schneider is seen smiling here - he was obviously in a good mood and came with an open mind. I realized that If we could to impress him during his inspection, capital requests would have an easier sailing in the future.
After his tour of our new building, he asked me at a BAYER reception the same evening what he could tell the reporters at the planned Press meeting about H&R in Japan the following day. I mentioned our success at Mc Donald's and our direct approach to the endusers for our products instead of going almost exclusively through the tradtional distribution system - the dealer system.
15.
The first big visitor to our new building - Dr. M. Schneider, CEO of the world-wide BAYER Group, our parent company. He brought a fellow board member from the head office in Leverkusen. The managing director of the BAYER Group in Japan, Mr. Kleedehn, had guided the visitors to our company.
(As Japan is a peaceful country there were no guards with the group - only one photographer. In South America there were in some countries sharp shooters on the roofs of the neighboring buildings, I was told.)
The picture shows me guiding these most important visitors (for our company's future) towards the elevator explaining our piece of art - the Six Sense of H&R. Dr. Schneider is seen smiling here - he was obviously in a good mood and came with an open mind. I realized that If we could to impress him during his inspection, capital requests would have an easier sailing in the future.
After his tour of our new building, he asked me at a BAYER reception the same evening what he could tell the reporters at the planned Press meeting about H&R in Japan the following day. I mentioned our success at Mc Donald's and our direct approach to the endusers for our products instead of going almost exclusively through the tradtional distribution system - the dealer system.