{"id":4756,"date":"2012-08-07T08:19:15","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T14:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4756"},"modified":"2012-08-07T08:19:15","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T14:19:15","slug":"a-model-that-everyone-wants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4756","title":{"rendered":"A model that everyone wants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/cdd959be-dfbe-11e1-b81c-00144feab49a.html#axzz22ltzsGu1\">Chris Bryant:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The Mittelstand, Germany\u2019s thriving strand of midsized, family-owned export champions, are the envy of the world. \u201cWe should all learn the lessons from the successful Mittelstand model,\u201d George Osborne, Britain\u2019s chancellor of the exchequer, told a business conference in Manchester last year.<\/p>\n<p>But just what is the model? Conversations with executives of some of the best-known Mittelstand offer a clue to the qualities others might emulate.<\/p>\n<p>Avoid debt, maintain independence and focus on the long term<br \/>\nAudio company Sennheiser\u2019s state-of-the art facility in the village of Wedemark, near Hannover, sits just a few strides from the cottage where Fritz Sennheiser founded the business in 1945. The company has always avoided debt, partly to focus on growing at a pace it could manage but also to maintain its autonomy.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Bryant: The Mittelstand, Germany\u2019s thriving strand of midsized, family-owned export champions, are the envy of the world. \u201cWe should all learn the lessons from the successful Mittelstand model,\u201d George Osborne, Britain\u2019s chancellor of the exchequer, told a business conference in Manchester last year. But just what is the model? Conversations with executives of some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4757,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4756\/revisions\/4757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}