Dear readers,

Do you feel everything around you is changing? How do our Heads of Country support the transition to Customer Centricity? Mona Erchinger and Patrick Mariotte talk about the challenges and opportunities they see in the new structure.

Colorful, tasty, practical: The requirements for vegetables differ from our other crops in many respects. The Vegetables Business Unit describes how it finds innovative solutions for spinach and Co.

They are out and about in all kinds of weather to lay the foundations for our breeding: our colleagues from the breeding stations. With reference to Einbeck, they explain why flexibility is extremely important and why every plant needs to be monitored closely.