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The LIVEKINDLY Collective is the world’s largest plant-based food group by funding and the only one to own and operate its entire value chain. Yet five years ago its founder Roger Lienhard had just an idea – and people asked: “You have no money, you have no team, you have no products. How do you want to create a company like this?”
Roger, with its chief executive Kees Kruythoff, has now raised more than $550 million from investors. This has allowed him to support and buy up-and-coming innovative food companies in production, processing and logistics, putting the company well on the way to fulfilling its mission to take plant-based living mainstream.
Watch Roger and Kees share how they are revolutionizing our food system armed with a clear vision, the right timing and partners and a global approach to local opportunities.
Girteka is Europe’s largest long-haul truck company by assets. Founded 25 years ago, it has doubled in size every three years so that today it leads a sector worth €100 billion a year and employs over 18,000 people.
According to Girteka CEO Edvardas Liachovičius, the company has been able to sustain such rapid growth because its management knows that with success comes responsibility – to its customers and its workforce. By constantly investing in new technology and training, Edvardas and his team are able to attract and retain reliable drivers, who deliver their customers’ cargos safely and on time. It’s a virtuous circle.
“We deliver our customers’ promises to their customers,” he says.
Watch Edvardas share how he has delivered high growth year in, year out, by behaving responsibly.
Linet is a leading manufacturer of hospital and nursing beds. It was founded 30 years ago by Zbyněk Frolík and has grown into a $400 million company, making it the fourth largest in the world in its sector.
From its humble origins in a Czech cowshed, Linet today is made up of some 20 subsidiaries and employs nearly 1,800 people. Zbyněk attributes his success to the quality of the beds, which help patients in more than 100 countries be more comfortable, speeding up their recovery times. He says that by learning from his own mistakes and from those of others he has been able to be better and grow faster.
Watch Zbyněk share his inspirational story and hear how he handed over his business with confidence when the time was right.
In just three years, 10,000 farmers in 50 countries have adopted the CropX farm management platform to help them make better, more sustainable decisions. Originally focused on water management, today it measures all inputs, from fertilizer to chemicals and more.
CEO Tomer Tzach says: “We started from the soil, bottom up. I say we’re scalable and soilable. In that respect, the world is moving in our direction.”
The cloud-based platform uses sensors to collect data about soil conditions so the farmer knows exactly where, when and how much to add of any input. Central to its success is that it is easy to implement and simple to use.
“The main issue with agriculture isn’t the technology, it’s about the simplicity of the technology,” Tomer says. “It’s about creating something simple that a farmer could adopt easily.”
Watch Tomer share how he has built his company into a world leader by innovation, looking beyond in-house success and never giving up.
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