There is a lot of »Liechtenstein« in the media these days, because Klaus Zumwinkel, CEO of Deutsche Post, brought millions of Euros to »LGT«, the bank of the sovereign family of Liechtenstein. All this wouldn’t be a problem would Zumwinkel, who was boss of the German post for 18 years, would have paid taxes for those millions. Zumwinkel was arrested on Thursday morning in his house in Cologne and set free later in the day by paying a bail. On Friday Deutsche Post announced that Zumwinkel steps down as CEO and also as member of the advisory board of Deutsche Telekom and Postbank.

In a James-Bond-like manner the German secret service bought thousands of files from an whistle-blower for around 5 million Euros. Those data carry information about customers of two Liechtenstein banks that illegally Continue Reading »

Here’s an idea from Solutions, a design agency that is on second place in the German design companies rating made by the popular special interest magazine »Werben und Verkaufen« (where the companies are rated on their annual turnover).

Basically it is this: take an Airbus 380, a luxury car, caviar, diamonds, an expensive painting, an opera singer like Continue Reading »

It’s really impressing how precisely Subway (the biggest sandwich maker in the world) reflects its corporate core values with a new mascot for the German market. With an immaculate sense of style the designers of Subway created a truly exceptional creature: the animated sandwich »Sub Wayne«.

When I saw it the first time sticking on the shop window of a Subway downtown Cologne, half dissoluting, I really found my image of the sandwich maker completely approved: wishy-washy bread with an indefinable compound of flavours sold in a cheap-style restaurant. But »Sub Wayne« (here some pictures) is actually a lot worse than any sandwich from Subway. I mean – take a look at this scrubby creature: it’s pale, it’s naked – his father could have been an unsuccessful penis or even a Continue Reading »