A total of 39 STARCLUB mem­bers met with ENERGETIX’s man­age­ment on the beau­ti­ful Mediter­ranean island of Mal­ta from 1 to 3 Octo­ber. It was the first trip since the begin­ning of the pan­dem­ic for many of the par­tic­i­pants.

After arriv­ing on the Fri­day, the STARS were tak­en straight to Hotel-Resort Dol­men that’s locat­ed on the beach front. A bus then took the par­tic­i­pants for their evening meal to Val­let­ta, the island’s cap­i­tal. The par­tic­i­pants were giv­en the oppor­tu­ni­ty to take a walk through the his­toric old town and explore its nar­row streets that were dec­o­rat­ed with fairy lights and filled with music and the aro­ma of Mal­tese cui­sine.

The next day was reserved for activ­i­ties, fun and team­work. So the par­tic­i­pants were tak­en by fer­ry to the island of Gozo where a small fleet of old off-road vehi­cles await­ed for a spe­cial island ral­ly. The trav­ellers were divid­ed into eight teams and giv­en a short brief­ing before they set off for their very own island adven­tures with indi­vid­ual sched­ules.

The goal was to find their way across the island by using the sched­ules and solv­ing ques­tions and tasks along the way. Dri­ving on the nar­row, some­times unpaved roads with the old cars was a chal­lenge in itself. So this team chal­lenge wasn’t lack­ing in adren­a­line and fun. A unique expe­ri­ence that none of the par­tic­i­pants will ever for­get so quick­ly.

Every­one was giv­en the chance to recov­er from the excit­ing day and spend some time on the beach or do a bit of shop­ping in the city in the late after­noon before it was time for the exclu­sive evening meal that was being served at Restau­rant Café del Mar. The win­ners of the ral­ly were cel­e­brat­ed in the mod­ern ambi­ence. The exquis­ite meal was com­ple­ment­ed with cake to cel­e­brate the birth­day of one of the par­tic­i­pants. In spite of the coro­na-relat­ed ban on danc­ing, it was a suc­cess­ful evening, which some of the trav­ellers found them­selves bring­ing to close at the beach bar.

The next morn­ing, the last one before depar­ture, pro­vid­ed the time and scope for an inten­sive exchange with the man­age­ment. In the bright sun­shine and with a buf­fet lunch to fol­low, every­one was giv­en the oppor­tu­ni­ty to address impor­tant top­ics that would help shape new devel­op­ments at ENERGETIX.

The inter­na­tion­al STARCLUB meet­ing not only pro­vid­ed the set­ting for a great reunion that was char­ac­ter­ized by lots of fun, good food and long-await­ed per­son­al exchanges, it was also a total suc­cess. 

You will find more pho­tos of this great event on our Flickr chan­nel!

Even more cre­ative, even more pro­fes­sion­al, even more moti­vat­ed and even more sup­port for busi­ness part­ners to make more time for sales talks and team-build­ing – those are just a few words that describe ENERGETIX’s Col­lec­tion Pre­miere on Sat­ur­day, 19 June 2021.

CEO and Sole Share­hold­er Roland Förster wel­comed guests from 13 coun­tries live from the company’s head­quar­ters in Bin­gen – with assis­tance from the management’s Alexan­der Link and Jes­si­ca Schlick. Pre­sen­ter Markus Appel­mann was also in atten­dance. It was the sec­ond time that he accom­pa­nied the audi­ence through an inten­sive pro­gramme and his charm made the time sim­ply fly by.

Even more cre­ative: the new Jew­ellery Col­lec­tion for 2021/2022

Once again, the col­lec­tion sur­pass­es that of the pre­vi­ous year – as Biba Marseglia, who’s been one of ENERGETIX’s lead­ing fig­ures for years, said. The cur­rent trend towards gold has been afford­ed the sig­nif­i­cance it deserves with each item of jew­ellery being turned into a work of art. Fun, joie de vivre and ener­gy – that’s what the jew­ellery express­es, which is why it’s sim­ply bound to inspire cus­tomers, espe­cial­ly at this time of year. A time that’s also char­ac­ter­ized by the need for feel-good moments. Moments that ENERGETIX’s range of well­ness acces­sories – to which new prod­ucts have been added and which is now being pre­sent­ed along­side the jew­ellery in the cat­a­logue – is able to cre­ate. The new and larg­er-for­mat cat­a­logue with its cre­ative and sus­tain­able design makes you want the orig­i­nals.

Even more sup­port for busi­ness part­ners

Argu­ments that authen­ti­cal­ly and cred­i­bly sup­port sales – who bet­ter to deliv­er them than the jew­ellery design­ers at ENERGETIX? The cre­atives shared the tech­ni­cal back­ground to the pieces in casu­al one-to-ones with Markus dur­ing the pre­sen­ta­tion. And these impor­tant expla­na­tions have also been includ­ed in the cat­a­logue right next to the prod­ucts.

Even more pro­fes­sion­al: on-line com­mu­ni­ca­tion

It’s now pos­si­ble to access all the oth­er impor­tant prod­uct details on-line in a tar­get­ed and pre­cise man­ner. The top­ic is gen­er­al­ly becom­ing more and more impor­tant. Jes­si­ca Schlick intro­duced a new addi­tion­al tar­get group with the on-line con­sul­tant. The ‘Hap­py from home’ ver­sion will open up a new field of activ­i­ty not only for busi­ness part­ners who are accus­tomed to work­ing on-line while the new par­ty code and Par­tyShop that Alexan­der Link pre­sent­ed will deliv­er effec­tive sup­port for home and on-line pre­sen­ta­tions.

WOW: the artists of the day

The den­si­ty of celebri­ties, as Markus put it, grew in inten­si­ty as time pro­gressed. And it was indeed so: Joey Kel­ly and his chil­dren Luke and Lil­li with their ver­sion of the song ‘I nev­er want­ed to be grown up’ as a world first at ENERGETIX’s Col­lec­tion Pre­miere; Maite Kel­ly, also with a new hit, and – sen­sa­tion­al­ly – the inter­view that Jes­si­ca Schlick con­duct­ed with Lili-Paul Ron­cal­li, the 2020 win­ner of the Let’s Dance TV show. They all shared with busi­ness part­ners advice that they had gained from their own expe­ri­ences: per­se­vere, stay flex­i­ble, be cre­ative, be open to new things, plan the day and keep on moti­vat­ing your­self.

Char­i­ty: suc­cess and new projects

The fact that it’s pos­si­ble to achieve great suc­cess even when you find your­self in the most unfavourable of sit­u­a­tions was demon­strat­ed by the con­tri­bu­tion from ENERGETIX’s char­i­ty part­ners Hugo and Lies­je Tem­pel­man in South Africa: an incred­i­ble, emo­tion­al per­for­mance by the choir, which was brought to life as one of the projects there and which is now about to sign its first record deal. This year’s dona­tion of € 50,000 is going to help fur­ther advance cur­rent projects, such as work with dis­abled chil­dren and an urgent­ly need­ed food pro­gramme. ENERGETIX’s sup­port is help­ing demon­strate that ‘tal­ent can help grow out of pover­ty’ as Hugo Tem­pel­man said.

Moti­vat­ed down to their fin­ger­tips

Careers by the mem­bers of the STARCLUB – and par­tic­u­lar­ly the One Year STARCLUB – once again demon­strat­ed that ENERGETIX’s suc­cess mod­el con­tin­ues to cre­ate the best oppor­tu­ni­ties for both the present and the future. That was also shown by the 50 new­com­ers who were pre­sent­ed at the begin­ning of the event – many of whom have already revealed their great tal­ents that will con­tin­ue to devel­op with the moti­va­tion­al boost that the Col­lec­tion Pre­miere deliv­ered.

You’ll find a sum­ma­ry of the day and the fan­tas­tic atmos­phere here – it’s def­i­nite­ly worth a watch:

The atmos­phere at ENERGETIX’s pre­vi­ous events to kick off the year has always been unique. Enthu­si­as­tic peo­ple in front of the cam­eras at the head­quar­ters in Bin­gen and in front of their screens at home demon­strat­ed that it’s also pos­si­ble to achieve the same effect on-line: goose bumps again and again, the desire to per­se­vere, opti­mism, moti­va­tion and always the heart­felt grat­i­tude for being giv­en the oppor­tu­ni­ty of belong­ing to the ENERGETIX fam­i­ly – all that marked an unfor­get­table day.

“The glass is half full.”

That was the opti­mistic approach that char­ac­ter­ized how Sole Share­hold­er and CEO Roland Förster wel­comed his vir­tu­al guests from 10 coun­tries. He high­light­ed the impres­sive achieve­ments that have been accom­plished in spite of the pan­dem­ic in his chat with host Markus Appel­mann. Lock­down in spring 2020 meant that ‘sales through our main dis­tri­b­u­tion chan­nels, the home par­ties and trade fairs, basi­cal­ly dropped to zero overnight’. But the rapid response and ini­tia­tives by both the busi­ness part­ners and the com­pa­ny allowed us to move most of the prod­uct pre­sen­ta­tions on-line. That shift result­ed in sales increas­ing again to more than 50% in just a very short peri­od. “I would nev­er have thought that pos­si­ble,” says the own­er of the fam­i­ly-run, self-financed com­pa­ny, which was able to fund the tran­si­tion and con­se­quent­ly the future thanks to suf­fi­cient reserves.

Awards that went to the heart

The strategy’s suc­cess was not least appar­ent in the many mov­ing trib­utes that Jes­si­ca Schlick and Alexan­der Link pre­sent­ed. The words of appre­ci­a­tion from the man­age­ment, as well as from accom­pa­ny­ing men­tors, struck a chord with the award recip­i­ents. The grat­i­tude that it was ‘pos­si­ble to belong to the ENERGETIX fam­i­ly’ and thus to be suc­cess­ful, par­tic­u­lar­ly dur­ing the cur­rent cri­sis, was expressed again and again. Per­son­al sales and com­pe­ti­tions along with team-build­ing and the STARCLUB pre­sent­ed lots of oppor­tu­ni­ty to high­light spe­cial achieve­ments and make very per­son­al trib­utes. Then there were the 10-year anniver­saries to cel­e­brate as well as a spe­cial appre­ci­a­tion of the suc­cess­ful new­com­ers. Live video links meant that those being hon­oured were able to share their moti­va­tion and grat­i­tude with view­ers.

Celebrating together thanks to technical skills

The event was not only char­ac­ter­ized by emo­tion­al trib­utes but also by the var­ied pro­gramme and the many oppor­tu­ni­ties that allowed par­tic­i­pants to join in. It was pos­si­ble, for exam­ple, for live music requests to be sent to the DJ dur­ing the event and pho­tos of smart out­fits to be uploaded from liv­ing rooms and cock­tails in the company’s colours to be shared. The inter­ac­tive sur­veys and live videos with danc­ing busi­ness part­ners also con­tributed to cre­at­ing a real par­ty feel­ing!

IT in a new light

Alexan­der Link was able to cre­ate new incen­tives with the lat­est ‘BOOST YOUR BUSINESS! FOR EVERYONE’ com­pe­ti­tion and to draw atten­tion to this year’s spe­cial offers. He also empha­sized at the same time that there were, of course, great peo­ple and many suc­cess sto­ries behind all the IT devel­op­ments and fig­ures of the last few months. “Sit­ting in front of a com­put­er is not where the fun is. It’s the get­ting new things off the ground togeth­er with busi­ness part­ners that I enjoy most,” says Alexan­der Link.

New jewellery to kick off the year

The new jew­ellery is, of course, one of the most pop­u­lar aspects of the kick-off event. It cre­ates the oppor­tu­ni­ty to specif­i­cal­ly get in touch with cus­tomers par­tic­u­lar­ly for the upcom­ing ‘spe­cial days’, in oth­er words, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day and church hol­i­days, as jew­ellery design­er Brit­ta Rejek men­tioned while shar­ing a few moti­va­tion­al tips. Valu­able sales argu­ments also came from the cre­ative cor­ner.

As the caterpillar said to the butterfly …

Star train­er Tobias Beck pro­vid­ed so many tips that it brought the moti­va­tion­al bar­rel to over­flow­ing – like the exam­ple of a barn full of gold that he used to describe the sit­u­a­tion of net­work mar­ket­ing as it is now and after coro­na. There were just a few rules to add that net­work mar­keters should abide by, for instance: “Peo­ple don’t buy the prod­uct, they buy you and your ener­gy!” And this coach has plen­ty of that. “Become a peo­ple mag­net! Fly out like a bee – from flower to flower!” And, then, one day, you’ll hear, “My God, how you have changed, as the cater­pil­lar said to the but­ter­fly!”

All in all, a max­i­mum of moti­va­tion from the top coach, who’s sure to pro­vide us with plen­ty of sup­port in the future, just as Joey Kel­ly has done for years.

Motivation and goal setting: Joey Kelly

A reunion that brought great joy even if there was no hug­ging allowed this time. But the words of the per­former and extreme sports per­son­al­i­ty were all the more heart­felt for that: “ENERGETIX is one big fam­i­ly and I’m glad we see each oth­er every year.” But how do you moti­vate your­self in crises like this? Moti­va­tion is not dif­fi­cult if you do what you love … those who remain flex­i­ble and who are will­ing take a new path will be the win­ners. His advice: “Nev­er give up, you have to set goals and be tough about achiev­ing them. Being suc­cess­ful is fun. Team­work is also very impor­tant in this regard.” And Joey had a reas­sur­ing pre­dic­tion: “2021 is going to be a strong year; dif­fi­cult at first – but then all the bet­ter.” Roland Förster also sees the pos­i­tive effect of flex­i­bil­i­ty and break­ing new ground: “The on-line sit­u­a­tion is enor­mous­ly impor­tant. Embrace the oppor­tu­ni­ties – with and with­out coro­na.” And his call to all: “Make 2021 your year!”

Many busi­ness part­ners start­ed doing so the fol­low­ing day with the addi­tion­al moti­va­tion of the col­lage train­ing with Ulrich Lang and Biba Marseglia. Even the on-line ver­sion of the train­ing was once again a unique expe­ri­ence and a great start to a year of visu­al­ized goals.

So with that in mind, let’s GROW TOGETHER. NOW MORE THAN EVER.

Roland Förster was greet­ed by thun­der­ous applause on the stage in Berlin on to which he had been invit­ed by Alexan­der Link and Jes­si­ca Schlick both of whom were pre­sent­ing. In his open­ing speech, the Sole Share­hold­er and CEO drew the atten­tion of his 1,000 guests to the company’s his­to­ry of 17 years that had been char­ac­ter­ized by con­tin­u­ous devel­op­ments. Devel­op­ments that had start­ed from the small­est of begin­nings and had grown into a pro­gres­sive­ly opti­mized col­lec­tion, high-qual­i­ty cat­a­logues and sig­nif­i­cant invest­ments in IT and logis­tics and also includ­ed the acqui­si­tion of the build­ing com­plex in Bin­gen. The lat­est mile­stone in the company’s progress is the exten­sive range of well­ness prod­ucts, which was pre­sent­ed in a sep­a­rate cat­a­logue for the first time in Berlin and which offers part­ners new poten­tial for sus­tain­ably boost­ing their busi­ness­es as well as their income and team-build­ing, which as Roland Förster par­tic­u­lar­ly point­ed out was of cen­tral sig­nif­i­cance.

In its pur­suit of these con­tin­u­ous devel­op­ments, ENERGETIX also attach­es great impor­tance to new­com­ers to the com­pa­ny. They were giv­en a spe­cial wel­come in Berlin. The num­ber of peo­ple who had joined since the last Col­lec­tion Pre­miere and who were invit­ed on to the stage was impres­sive.

Large groups, also among the teams, that had come dressed espe­cial­ly for the occa­sion of the Col­lec­tion Pre­miere in Berlin. The stage was hard­ly big enough to show off their cre­ativ­i­ty.

The company’s top busi­ness part­ners and mem­bers of the STARCLUB – the company’s high­est acco­lade – were also giv­en spe­cial recog­ni­tion and enjoyed loud applause.

The day’s high­light came this year in a dou­ble pack: well­ness prod­ucts and a new jew­ellery col­lec­tion. Both were pre­sent­ed dur­ing impres­sive stage shows. As were the two new cat­a­logues – in a new design and real­ized in the most sophis­ti­cat­ed of styles. The audi­ence enjoyed a breath­tak­ing per­for­mance dur­ing the show when Sergey Mishchurenko, who is famous for his tele­vi­sion appear­ances, impressed with a dar­ing rou­tine on his ‘Fly­ing Pole’.

He wasn’t the only celebri­ty of the day: the actor Ralf Bauer was also wel­comed as a guest and charm­ing­ly focused addi­tion­al atten­tion on the top­ic of well­ness. Joey Kel­ly and his son Luke, who is fol­low­ing in his father’s foot­steps, made an authen­tic con­tri­bu­tion to the moti­va­tion of the attend­ing busi­ness part­ners. They fur­ther issued a heart-felt invi­ta­tion to the par­tic­i­pants to join them at the next half marathon in Mainz where they’ll also be run­ning in ENERGETIX’s colours.

The busi­ness part­ners were also giv­en suf­fi­cient time to dive into the extreme­ly cre­ative­ly designed worlds of jew­ellery and well­ness. That was where par­tic­i­pants were able to take a close look at the new prod­ucts and get expert and knowl­edge­able advice about them. The enthu­si­asm was lit­er­al­ly tan­gi­ble.

Anoth­er first was the fact that suc­cess­ful busi­ness part­ners were giv­en the oppor­tu­ni­ty to share their knowl­edge in the fields of jew­ellery, well­ness, team-build­ing and com­pe­ti­tions on stage in four inten­sive and enter­tain­ing pan­el dis­cus­sions. Com­pe­tence and expe­ri­ence in the ‘Tal­ent Are­na’ also pro­duced effi­cient exchanges between the man­age­ment, suc­cess­ful busi­ness part­ners and new­com­ers, who were able to ben­e­fit from the invalu­able knowl­edge that was pre­sent­ed there. Build­ing your own team was anoth­er of the cen­tral top­ics at the are­na as were tips and expe­ri­ences from many impres­sive careers.

With this prepa­ra­tion under their belts, the par­tic­i­pants eager­ly await­ed the pre­sen­ta­tion of the new com­pe­ti­tions, which were then revealed in an excit­ing launch: as is tra­di­tion, new­com­ers will be trav­el­ling to Bin­gen; win­ners of the sec­ond cat­e­go­ry will be get­ting to enjoy ‘Pure Nature’ in the Basque Coun­try while first-cat­e­go­ry qual­i­fiers may expect some­thing incred­i­ble: a trip to the Ama­zon – an expe­ri­ence that’s going to be an absolute one-off in the lives of those lucky enough to take part.

The day was round­ed off with the gala evening that was accom­pa­nied by a deli­cious meal and the pre­sen­ta­tion of the cheque to ENERGETIX’s char­i­ty part­ner Dr Hugo Tem­pel­man and that was then fol­lowed by a daz­zling par­ty with DJ and one of the best cov­er and par­ty bands in Ger­many.

The fol­low­ing Sun­day saw busi­ness part­ners decid­ing between the choice of tak­ing part in a socia­ble get-togeth­er.

An all-round suc­cess­ful Col­lec­tion Pre­miere! ENERGETIX’s most impor­tant event of the year has made a last­ing impres­sion: effec­tive exchanges of expe­ri­ences, top moti­va­tion and enthu­si­asm for two new ranges. The par­tic­i­pants are look­ing for­ward to the next Col­lec­tion Pre­miere in July 2020.

Pho­tos: The day / Gala / Get-togeth­er

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From the start, the atmos­phere at the sum­mer STARCLUB meet­ing couldn’t have been bet­ter. The mem­bers of ENERGETIX’s supreme body met two days before the Col­lec­tion Pre­miere in the ESTREL Hotel’s sum­mer gar­den in Berlin for a lunch snack that was already await­ing the guests. It was a meet­ing that was actu­al­ly a warm gath­er­ing of friends in the most pleas­ant of Berlin set­tings that pre­sent­ed the per­fect oppor­tu­ni­ty for small talk and inten­sive shar­ing of expe­ri­ences.

The lat­est first-hand news was pre­sent­ed dur­ing the exchange with the man­age­ment that fol­lowed. That was when Roland Förster, Alexan­der Link and Jes­si­ca Schlick talked about devel­op­ments and trends, includ­ing, for exam­ple, the grow­ing impor­tance that well­ness prod­ucts are enjoy­ing. The new Bal­an­ce­Plus Bot­tle met with great enthu­si­asm at its pre-launch intro­duc­tion to the STARCLUB mem­bers.

The STARCLUB’s new mem­bers were giv­en a par­tic­u­lar­ly warm wel­come. Men­tors and close­ly asso­ci­at­ed busi­ness part­ners found the appro­pri­ate and mov­ing words to praise the suc­cess­ful new­com­ers to the club – a demon­stra­tion of the close ties between peo­ple that are char­ac­ter­is­tic of the atmos­phere that exists at ENERGETIX and that cer­tain­ly also con­tribute to the suc­cess of every indi­vid­ual.

The STARCLUB mem­bers then got to spend the evening in the com­pa­ny of ENERGETIX’s man­age­ment at Schloss Britz. The atmos­phere was excel­lent. The sum­mer par­ty fol­lowed the hon­ours and a supe­ri­or evening meal.

Our STARS express how much they enjoy their suc­cess when they start to cel­e­brate. Although things weren’t real­ly any loud­er than usu­al, it was hot and so the win­dows were open. And then the police arrived. It must be said, how­ev­er, that the offi­cers deployed their de-esca­la­tion strat­e­gy per­fect­ly in the form of a Vien­nese waltz and that they were an unplanned but valu­able addi­tion to the evening. ENERGETIX’s atmos­phere is sim­ply infec­tious!

The announce­ment of the next three-day STARCLUB event on Mal­ta in April 2020 gave every­body a spe­cial moti­va­tion­al boost! An incen­tive for ded­i­cat­ed, con­tin­u­ous work for all busi­ness part­ners!

Find more pho­tos of this event on Flickr.

A fresh wind blew through Bin­gen and our busi­ness premis­es last week. In appre­ci­a­tion of their out­stand­ing achieve­ments, we had invit­ed the win­ners of the New­com­er Com­pe­ti­tion to see our head­quar­ters.

But, once there, they were able to enjoy Joey Kel­ly, too, who is also a con­firmed fan of mag­net­ic jew­ellery and who enriched the day with a pre­sen­ta­tion about the pow­er of set­ting goals and moti­va­tion.

The first day was ded­i­cat­ed to a guid­ed tour of our premis­es with lots of infor­ma­tion from the Cus­tomer Sup­port, Mar­ket­ing and Ware­house depart­ments as well as an exchange with man­age­ment and employ­ees. But one of the high­lights was def­i­nite­ly the enter­tain­ing and instruc­tive ‘No Lim­its’ pre­sen­ta­tion by Joey Kel­ly.

No lim­its in your mind and pur­su­ing your goals with the utmost moti­va­tion – that’s what Joey illus­trat­ed using his life with the Kel­ly Fam­i­ly and as an extreme ath­lete as an exam­ple.

The evening was then ded­i­cat­ed entire­ly to recog­ni­tion because that’s when Roland Förster and Jes­si­ca Schlick pre­sent­ed the busi­ness part­ners with their cer­tifi­cates and awards against the back­drop of the Cen­tral Rhine Val­ley, which could have come straight from the movies. The buf­fet and BBQ on the ter­race of the Palais am Rhein was fol­lowed by a par­ty and danc­ing into the night in the com­pa­ny of a DJ.

The sec­ond day pro­vid­ed the oppor­tu­ni­ty to exchange expe­ri­ences with like-mind­ed peo­ple. A kind of speed dat­ing with hik­ing and wine tast­ing around the Nieder­wald Mon­u­ment pro­vid­ed the set­ting for enter­tain­ment, sight­see­ing and many answers to ques­tions about the busi­ness.

The event is best summed up with what the new­com­ers them­selves said: “two fan­tas­tic days”, “inter­est­ing exchange”, “beau­ti­ful land­scape”, “fun peo­ple” and “great atmos­phere”!

You will find more pho­tos of this great event on our Flickr chan­nel!

“Great, incredibly impressive! Thanks for this totally amazing trip. It was again something very special and very pleasant.”

The trip to South Africa allowed the first-cat­e­go­ry qual­i­fiers to get very close to the peo­ple and nature there. The promis­es that were made weren’t exag­ger­at­ed. It would hard­ly be pos­si­ble to expe­ri­ence this excit­ing coun­try as a vis­i­tor any more inten­sive­ly, emo­tion­al­ly or clos­er.

The trip start­ed in Elans­doorn, where Hugo Tem­pel­man, our long-stand­ing char­i­ty part­ner, works. The busi­ness part­ners were able to see for them­selves in the hos­pi­tal ward and research lab­o­ra­to­ry that ENERGETIX’s dona­tions over recent years are being put to extreme­ly good use.

A per­for­mance by a few mem­bers of the now world-famous choir showed how much qual­i­ty of life Hugo Tempelman’s work is pro­duc­ing in South Africa.

These first mov­ing impres­sions accom­pa­nied the group as the trav­ellers immersed them­selves direct­ly into the near­by nature where a beau­ti­ful lodge where they could relax was wait­ing for them.

The next day offered pure adven­ture when the par­tic­i­pants were tak­en on a safari to expe­ri­ence the Big Five with excit­ing and even dra­mat­ic aspects. The pic­tures speak for them­selves. The evening end­ed with a bush din­ner against the fan­tas­tic back­drop of dusk.

The next day’s pro­gramme of con­trasts saw the group take a short flight to the pul­sat­ing metrop­o­lis of Cape Town. 

The impres­sion that this ‘pearl at the south­ern tip of Africa’ offered was very pro­found with fan­tas­tic beach­es on the shores of two oceans, scenic diver­si­ty and a vibrant mul­ti­cul­tur­al soci­ety. The renowned ‘Gold Restau­rant’ took the guests on a culi­nary jour­ney across the entire con­ti­nent in the evening.

Next con­trast: Cape Town’s town­ship. The guide let us take a look behind the scenes. One of the high­lights of the jour­ney was a trip to a gen­uine med­i­cine man and to the guide’s moth­er, who lov­ing­ly pre­pared an African lunch for the group. It couldn’t have been more authen­tic!

The vis­tas from Table Moun­tain are, of course, always a must-see on any trip to Cape Town. The view at sun­set was mag­nif­i­cent.

And only ENERGETIX busi­ness part­ners could have expe­ri­enced the con­sump­tion of night cof­fee this way: the evening meal was served at the home of jazz musi­cians who pre­sent­ed a sam­ple of their skills with music that has con­quered the entire world.

The Cape of Good Hope’s pop­u­lar mas­cots, the charm­ing pen­guins, were one of the final last­ing impres­sions of a ‘stun­ning’ jour­ney before the first-cat­e­go­ry qual­i­fiers were appro­pri­ate­ly rec­og­nized for their out­stand­ing per­for­mances dur­ing ‘Din­ner at the Stack’.

An incred­i­ble trip but it can already be revealed that the new competition’s des­ti­na­tion for first-cat­e­go­ry qual­i­fiers that is going to be pre­sent­ed in Berlin at the end of August is eas­i­ly going to match these stan­dards for excite­ment and adven­ture.

We’ll be see­ing you in Berlin!

More impres­sions from this extra­or­di­nary jour­ney are to be found on Flickr.

Great spir­its and lots of fun while act­ing – that’s how the atmos­phere dur­ing the STARCLUB meet­ing that took place in Bin­gen on 3 and 4 May could be described. The venue – which was turned into a pro­fes­sion­al­ly super­vised film loca­tion – was the NH Hotel on the banks of the Riv­er Rhine.

The pro­tag­o­nists were the ENERGETIX STARS, who enthu­si­as­ti­cal­ly and total­ly immersed them­selves into the com­plex mate­r­i­al: great per­for­mances were pre­sent­ed in regard to the sto­ry­board, cast­ing, make-up and even direct­ing. As well as, of course, in the lead­ing and sup­port­ing roles.

The cin­e­mat­ic enthu­si­asm of our STARS dur­ing the shoot is reflect­ed in the three results, which had their pre­mieres after the evening menu at Burg Klopp. Roland Förster’s trib­ute to the STARCLUB mem­bers was com­ple­ment­ed this time with Oscars for all the par­tic­i­pants and three Spe­cial Awards for Out­stand­ing Achieve­ments.

The great atmos­phere with the 54 STARS who had trav­elled from the Nether­lands, Den­mark, France, Switzer­land and Ger­many tran­si­tioned seam­less­ly into a live­ly film-gala par­ty.

The Sat­ur­day after was marked by an infor­ma­tive meet­ing on ENERGETIX’s premis­es at which the most impor­tant news was shared first hand in advance with the STARCLUB mem­bers.

The ses­sion allowed ques­tions and sug­ges­tions to be explored in direct exchanges with the man­age­ment. The pos­i­tive feed­back about the sub­jects dis­cussed con­sti­tut­ed a great end to a very suc­cess­ful STARCLUB event.

This way to the Flickr Album with more impres­sions from this mag­nif­i­cent event!

That you can end up in a com­plete­ly dif­fer­ent and fas­ci­nat­ing world after what feels like a short-haul flight – that’s what the 22 par­tic­i­pants of ENERGETIX’s train­ing trip to Mar­rakesh expe­ri­enced. The name alone con­jures up excit­ing images of vibrant and ori­en­tal diver­si­ty that are then far sur­passed by what can actu­al­ly be expe­ri­enced there.

The first day alone pre­sent­ed the full pack­age: div­ing into the mag­i­cal atmos­phere of the Med­i­na mar­ket place with jug­glers, snake charm­ers and musi­cians along with an incred­i­ble selec­tion of goods being hawked by hun­dreds of traders. All this fills the air with a unique sound, accom­pa­nied by the fan­tas­tic smell of ori­en­tal food – a feast for the sens­es.

A some­what dif­fer­ent ral­ly was kicked off in the mid­dle of this unique atmos­phere with the aim of help­ing the trav­ellers dis­cov­er the his­to­ry and cul­ture of this mag­i­cal place. Appro­pri­ate­ly, the night was spent at the Riad Dar Jus­to, a state­ly vil­la at the heart of Mar­rakesh.

The fol­low­ing day was devot­ed to the aspect of valu­able details that this city, which has been able to keep its tra­di­tions alive, presents. ENERGETIX’s busi­ness part­ners were par­tic­u­lar­ly tak­en with the many small and open stu­dios where tan­ners, black­smiths and wood­work­ers – who are more artists than arti­sans – could be observed at their work. Anoth­er world, anoth­er time – still full of life today. A ‘tuk-tuk’ whisked the vis­i­tors down nar­row alleys to a styl­ish restau­rant in the evening.

The third day was ded­i­cat­ed to a trip to the Atlas moun­tains. This was where the par­tic­i­pants dis­cov­ered how com­plex the pro­duc­tion of Morocco’s pre­cious argan oil is on a trip to a coop­er­a­tive where it is made.

A Berber fam­i­ly pre­sent­ed the secrets of mak­ing tea in the Agafag desert  – a true cer­e­mo­ny. A ride on the camel was, of course, a must on a lit­tle excur­sion into the desert.

The evening meal, which was served in a Berber tent, was a very spe­cial expe­ri­ence as it pre­sent­ed the unique set­ting to cel­e­brate the win­ners of the Mar­rakesh ral­ly as well as the birth­day of Cécile Car­bonel, the busi­ness part­ner from France.

The high­light of the fourth day was the trip to the Yves Saint Lau­rent Muse­um and the Majorelle Gar­den that revealed that the fash­ion design­er did not only excel with won­der­ful cre­ations at his cho­sen pro­fes­sion.

This excur­sion into the Ara­bi­an world was brought to a close with an evening meal at the mod­ern Jad Mahal Restau­rant, where Andreas Förster, stand­ing in for his father, award­ed the cer­tifi­cates to the par­tic­i­pat­ing com­pe­ti­tion qual­i­fiers. He empha­sized how valu­able the ENERGETIX train­ing trips are, also from the point of view of per­son­al exchanges and learn­ing from each oth­er.

The unfor­get­table impres­sions of this train­ing trip to Mar­rakesh demon­strate once again that ENERGETIX’s ses­sions are great oppor­tu­ni­ties for busi­ness part­ners to moti­vate both them­selves and their entire teams.

More impres­sions from this extra­or­di­nary jour­ney are to be found on Flickr.