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How Germany’s family-owned “mittelstand” companies are coping with the pandemic

by Stephen Beard

May 5, 2021

Mittelstands have long histories and local roots. Will those proud qualities see them through the COVID-19 crisis?

Hanns Martin Rincker of the Rincker foundry creates a church bell inscription. “We will become something else,“ he says. “The market always changes.”

Courtesy Hanns Martin Rincker

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