Post by Lina Gronbach

To Belgians, Dutch & Les Lüx   Dear Paule Bodart, what a pleasure to cross paths and sign as partners for LIGRE in Benelux. What blessing, we share similar values on building business together. More to reveal on common experiences as female third generational responsibles, with fathers and other family members watching with a mix of pride, expectation, anger at a point sure to arrive, and diverse emotions all over again.   For you the first brand after Illy, besides Jura to add to the portfolio of company Bodart & Co. To me - not in the family succession but in the role as a founder of LIGRE - an important step to lay trust in your hands, as extra power outboard motor.  Hands - see the hands of Dr. Toni Mathes, head engineer, on the cardboard box between us? Better ones to develop most tasty espresso brewing profiles, I do not know. Hands - the ones that were drawing Toni and me and the storm of coffee beans. More fascinating ones than Marvel Entertainment comic artist Filipe Andrades, I do not know. Did you recon it was him who crafted The Immortal Hulk and Captain Marvel? Maybe it were my 25 yrs in basketball clubs and love to streetart, that made me immediately get caught up in the vision of working with Filipe, from the moment I got to know he had lived in shared apartments with Ana Relvão - our beloved product designer - at the time they were young students in Lisbon… This is life. But you only see, what you are looking for. Stay hungry, stay loving. Paule Bodart Maarten Hermans Anique Meijer-Gerritsen Mike Jansen Joke Sterckx Armin Zimpelmann Tobias Koppelmann Martin Riedel Claudia Neumann Hansgeorg Derks Ulrich Dahlmann Maro Goebel Marcus Diekmann Ingo Lober Johannes Bauer Martin Elwert Guntram Stoll Svenja Koch Georg Philipp Schwarz Bernd Kerkhoff Frederik Kliewe Steven Strawinski Axel Schaffer Marco Tümmler Robert Podwitz Gabriel Kämmerer Bruno Trepp Hartmut Roehrig Cemil Teke Ulrike Ochoiski Matthias Heyder Johann Jacobs Haus GmbH Jean Hommel GmbH