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Shaping the future together with confidence

Even in the crisis, it has been shown - DMK is a strong community. Thanks to great colleagues and milk suppliers, innovative ideas, working solutions for tomorrow's nutrition, and mutual respect.

 

How do we manage that? That is best told by the employees and farmers themselves. From trainees to managers, we have exciting and personal insights into everyday working life at DMK.

Women power. Management positions at DMK. Why this is so important and what and what still needs to change are told by three who have made it.

21.04.2023

Lena Herkenhoff, Dairy and dairy industry trainer

Women in management positions are naturally also a big topic at DMK. We talked to Lena Herkenhoff, trainer for the dairy industry, about the challenges and her experiences with this topic.
20.04.2023

Romy Päpke, Product Development Team Leader

DMK wants to ensure a gender balance at all levels. Also in STEM professions. We talked to Team Leader for Product Development Cheese Romy Päpke about the challenges for female managers and her career at DMK, among other things.
20.04.2023

Dr. Jamila Bouanda, Category Head Fresh Dairy

DMK supplies various markets internationally. Also the French market. Our colleague Dr. Jamila Bouanda, who as Category Head Fresh Dairy is in charge of the butter and FD portfolio, is responsible for this market. We talk to her about her tasks and her challenges as a female manager.
20.04.2023

André Hausendorf, Team coordinator in the filling area

We are Germany's largest dairy cooperative. Who do we have to thank for that? Our employees and farmers. We would like to introduce them to you in more detail. Take André Hausendorf, for example, who has been working for us for an incredible 34 years and has thus played an active role in shaping the dairy industry. We talked to the team coordinator in the filling area about his career and his specific tasks at DMK. He also tells us why he would recommend DMK as an employer at any time.
19.04.2023

Katrin Lücking, QM Business Partner International & BRAND

At DMK, we employ several thousand people. Of course, we want them to enjoy working for us and to feel comfortable here. Like Katrin Lücking, who did her apprenticeship at DMK. And still feels good after 15 years with us.
20.04.2023

Isabella Katzer, Product Manager

The compatibility of family and career plays an important role for us. Because we want our colleagues to feel good about their work. Product Manager Isabella Katzer appreciates the opportunities offered by flexible working. And she still has a lot of plans at DMK - including condensed milk.
20.04.2023

Ulrich Westrup, Farmer

Around 5,200 milk producers work together with DMK. We are proud and grateful that we work with them in such a trusting manner - in some cases for decades. We talked to farmer Ulrich Wentrup about sustainability, the challenges in agriculture and young talent.
19.04.2023

Hennig Pülsch, Farmer

Like father, like son. Farmer Henning Pülsch is a farmer like his father and manages a dairy farm together with him. He talked to us about the challenges of farming.
20.03.2023

Jane Fast, Trainee industrial clerk, prospective European clerk

"I think the big picture is incredible, like how so many areas work together. Everyone has their job here and everyone is responsible for making it run."
20.03.2023

Nils Wordtmann, Milchtechnologe

In this employee portrait, Nils Wordtmann, milk technologist, talks about his work at DMK.
02.12.2022

Robert Gerboth, Continuous Improvement Engineer, Erfurt

The pandemic has really increased the pace of digitization over the past two years – but people’s sense of togetherness and being connected have suffered, despite that. However, at the same time, a sense of team spirit is more important than ever, both personally and professionally.
02.12.2022

Amanda Zhu, General Manager Oldenburger Dairy Shanghai

2022 year has been a special one for me and my family in many ways. In March and April we were in lockdown for almost two months. It was the longest period of isolation so far and it was unusual to be at home in our own four walls for all that time.
02.12.2022

Apprentice Florian Schmiedel & Lydia Barsch

For me, a door closed 2022 – and another opened. Up until January, I was working together with three apprentices at the Herzgut dairy in Rudolstadt, Thuringia, which has a long history. The farms were still supplying raw milk in December but then, on New Year’s Day, the company filed for insolvency.
02.12.2022

Chris Siedentopp, Product Developer Brand MILRAM, R&D Zeven

The events of 2022 have significantly sped up work in my department. Now we have to react much more quickly to changes that are happening on a dayto-day basis and adapt our processes.
02.12.2022

Alfons Schwersmannn, farmer in Lüdinghausen, North Rhine-Westphalia

I’ve been a member of the dairy cooperative for 40 years, but I’ve never before received such a high milk price.
02.12.2022

Bernd Welsch and his family on the Welsch dairy farm in Wachtberg, NRW

Like all other farmers, we had been worrying 2022 about the war, price increases, supply bottlenecks and the power supply. It was all very upsetting. But it doesn’t compare to what I and my family felt during the most devastating catastrophe I ever experienced, as a farmer and volunteer fireman, when it struck our neighboring village.
That’s what WE are about.

30.11.2020

Luisa Wagner

Even during the coronavirus pandemic, Luisa Wagner’s door has remained open to interested visitors. This young farmer wants to encourage a positive impression of agriculture through her transparency and openness.
14.10.2020

Dennis Schierenbeck - IT-Specialist

In record time, IT expert Dennis Schierenbeck and his team have equipped DMK for digital work. He finds that his colleagues are still holding the course and collaborating as closely as ever – even after six months spent working from home.
14.10.2020

Alberta Bruno – Sales Department - National Account Manager – Italy

Smart Work: Alberta Bruno explains how this new model for work has a positive effect on work-life balance and productivity. This national account manager sees every crisis as an opportunity to rethink old habits.
14.10.2020

Heptner family - Bremen

Lena and Kai Heptner are a genuine ‘DMK family’: both halves of this couple – who have two sons together – work in CQM at the Bremen location. Lena tells us about not only the challenges of balancing her job with having a family, but also the more pleasant aspects of this sudden change.
09.07.2020

Nienke Beverdam - Facility Management, DOC Kaas, The Netherlands

Nienke Beverdam works at Facility Management for DOC Kaas in the Netherlands
09.07.2020

Hanneke Ensink - System Controller, DOC Kaas, the Netherlands.

Hanneke Ensink works as a System Controller for DOC Kaas in the the Netherlands.

In truth, this is the hour of the cooperative spirit: "What one man cannot do alone, many can." In other words, it’s up to US.

Ingo Müller, CEO DMK Group

09.06.2020

Joana Franke - Team Coordinator in HR Service Recruiting

It has been more than two months since Joana Franke and her seven colleagues sat together in the large HR office in Zeven.
04.05.2020

Kristina Sturm - Hohenwestedt

High in the north, approximately 20 km west of Neumünster is the DMK Hohenwestedt factory. Here, Kristina Sturm produces powdered milk, butter and cottage cheese along with her 140 colleagues.
30.04.2020

Sven Angermann - Erfurt

Sven Angermann has worked in materials management in the factory warehouse at the DMK Erfurt location since 2006. The 330 colleagues know each other well and normally greet each other with a handshake. Of course, this is now not possible – it’s a really unusual situation for Sven Angermann.
30.04.2020

Lars Mühlberg - Altentreptow

Everything is still alright with the world, as far as the 5,000 residents of the small town of Altentreptow are concerned. The Mecklenburg lake district is very close and you can reach the holiday island of Usedom in around an hour. Simply a wonderful quality of life. But naturally here too, the corona virus has long since made itself felt in people’s everyday lives.
30.04.2020

Central warehouse, Zeven

120 DMK colleagues work at the central warehouse in Zeven. Five of them talk about what’s happening currently at the location and how the corona pandemic has changed things for them.
30.04.2020

Tobias Büchner and Nico Pemsel – control centre / Erfurt

Tobias Büchner and Nico Pemsel stare with concentration at their screens in the control centres at the DMK Erfurt location. This is because, despite corona, neither of them have time for a breather.
27.04.2020

Marianna Betta – Senior Quality Assurance & Regulatory Affairs – Italy

Andrà tutto bene – Everything will be fine. Three words that stand for the new hope of Italians throughout the country, like seeing light at the end of the tunnel. They are written on colourful banners hung from windows and adorn the front pages of the daily newspapers in bold letters. Marianna Betta also has this sentence up on her screen.
27.04.2020

Laila Boselli – Marketing Department – Junior Product Manager – Italy

“The coronavirus has broadsided all of us. With no warning, it has radically changed our habits and our lives. For my team and me it all began on March the 9th, when the lockdown was officially declared in Italy. We haven't been in the office since the beginning of March," says 27-year-old Laila Boselli.
24.04.2020

Hauke Kramer

The crisis has greatly strengthened the cohesion in our milk collection.

Your contact

Please contact us with any questions or suggestions you may have

Oliver Bartelt

DMK Group, Global Head of Corporate Communications
Flughafenallee 17, 28199 Bremen
Germany
oliver.bartelt@dmk.de

Vera Hassenpflug

DMK Group, Senior External Communications Manager
Flughafenallee 17, 28199 Bremen
Germany
vera.hassenpflug@dmk.de