The eager­ly await­ed ENERGETIX start-of-year meet­ing took place on the sec­ond week­end (10th to 13th) of Jan­u­ary in a snowy, win­tery Will­in­gen. Its slo­gan was „Fit for the next decade“.

It includ­ed a Train-the-train­er sem­i­nar, at which top dis­trib­u­tors pre­sent­ed new train­ing mod­ules on the top­ics of jew­ellery and intro­duc­to­ry train­ing. ENERGETIX edi­tor Otto
Mar­quass also gave a guest talk in which he pro­vid­ed use­ful infor­ma­tion and tips on how to use Healthy at last, the book by Dr. Verena
Breitenbach.
The cre­ative­ly and moti­va­tion­al­ly stim­u­lat­ing goal col­lage train­ing was anoth­er impor­tant item on the pro­gramme. The use of col­lages for visu­al­iza­tion helps peo­ple become aware of their own wish­es and goals.

CEO Roland Förster

2013 Spring collection
For the first time ever, the eager­ly await­ed new Spring col­lec­tion togeth­er with the hot-off-the-press brochure were pre­sent­ed at the start-of-year meeting.
In addi­tion to the new jew­ellery for ladies, men and chil­dren, a new ENERGETIX prod­uct, the Mag­netTime mod­u­lar wrist­watch, also aroused great interest.

Mainz or Berlin: announce­ment of the 2013 Launch venue 
The secret was revealed, the eager­ly await­ed answer to the ques­tion „Mainz or Berlin – where will the 2013 Cat­a­logue Launch take place?“ was first announced in Will­in­gen. The win­ner, we report­ed, is Berlin. The next ENERGETIX Cat­a­logue Launch will be held in the renowned Estrel Hotel and Con­ven­tion Centre!

Train­er Slat­co Sterzenbach

Phys­i­cal and men­tal fit­ness: holis­tic train­ing with iron­man Slat­co Sterzenbach
Grad­u­ate sports sci­en­tist and best-sell­ing author Slat­co Sterzen­bach, whom ENERGETIX was able to get as a train­er for the start-of-year event, talked about noth­ing but moti­va­tion. The 15-time iron­man gave dis­trib­u­tors clear, prac­ti­cal tips relat­ing to diet, activ­i­ty, sleep, relax­ation and men­tal train­ing so they could in future cope bet­ter with the demands of the day.

Accord­ing to the slo­gan „Fit for the next decade“ it became a sport­ing event, as fit­ness train­er Julia Rit­tner invit­ed all atten­dees to what was effec­tive­ly a Thera-Band workout.

5,000 euros for a good cause 
The dis­trib­u­tor raf­fle raised over 3,000 euros for the cause. Sole share­hold­er and CEO Roland Förster imme­di­ate­ly round­ed up the amount, so in the end 5,000 euros was donat­ed for a school in Nepal. Thanks to the gen­eros­i­ty of ENERGETIX distributors!

Fit­ness train­er Julia Rittner

Con­struc­tive exchange of ideas
The Sun­day meet­ing of the multi­na­tion­al STARCLUB focused on exchang­ing ideas. As well as com­bin­ing with the man­age­ment com­mit­tee to answer one anoth­er’s ques­tions, the „stars“ were called on to make a cre­ative con­tri­bu­tion to the new ENERGETIX decade.

ENERGETIX dis­trib­u­tors will short­ly receive a Quick­News about the Start-of-year event with more detailed infor­ma­tion and fur­ther photos.

© Peter — Fotolia.com

The eager­ly await­ed results from the online sur­vey – „Mainz or Berlin … where will the cat­a­logue be launched in 2013?“ – were announced at ENER­GETIX’s start-of-year meet­ing in Will­in­gen. Berlin clear­ly made the run­ning and so the next ENERGETIX Launch is to be staged in Berlin!

Europe’s largest con­gress and hotel com­plex – the Estrel – in Ger­many’s cap­i­tal will be the place to which ENER­GETIX’s dis­trib­u­tors will be head­ing. Jew­ellery pre­sen­ta­tions, a rich and var­ied enter­tain­ment pro­gramme, din­ner and accom­mo­da­tion: this remark­able event loca­tion offers ENERGETIX the ben­e­fit among oth­er things of com­bin­ing „every­thing under a sin­gle roof“.

Every­body – both dis­trib­u­tors and the entire ENERGETIX team – is real­ly look­ing for­ward to the next ENERGETIX Cat­a­logue Launch in Berlin.

What is grass green and black, has a silky shine and makes dis­trib­u­tors look good dur­ing sport­ing activ­i­ties or at their sportEX fair / event stand? The sportEX sports shirt from ENERGETIX Bingen.

The sports shirt, avail­able in a men’s and ladies‘ fit (S – XXL for both), was pre­miered at the ENERGETIX Start-of-Year-Event in Will­in­gen: the pow­er­ful com­bi­na­tion of colours and the sportEX logo – small on the front and extra large on the back – catch every­one’s eye.

The new sportEX sports shirt met with a great recep­tion at the Start-of-Year-Event in Willingen

As long as stocks last – these tai­lored sports shirts (items PP226 and PP228) are in great demand. Dis­trib­u­tors who make up their minds quick­ly have a clear advan­tage — some sizes are already sold out.

Ilona Arndt and Roland Förster reveal­ing the Art Advent Cal­en­dar’s 15th win­dow on the Jumeirah/MyZeil façade.

ENER­GETIX’s „door“ to the Art Advent Cal­en­dar was opened (as report­ed) on Sat­ur­day, 15 Decem­ber 2012 – in oth­er words, the work of art was revealed in per­son by Roland Förster and the artist, Ilona Arndt.

The backer, Franziska Knuppe

Unfor­tu­nate­ly, the mod­el, Franziska Knuppe, who was the celebri­ty backer, could­n’t make it as she could­n’t get away from Berlin airport.

Click here to see the pho­tos from Frank­furt am Main.

Ilona Arndt and Roland Förster joint­ly reveal­ing the work of art

Roland Förster (ENER­GETIX’s sole share­hold­er and CEO), Bir­gitt Wolff (ini­tia­tor of the project) and Ilona Arndt (artist in Hanover) pre­sent­ing the pic­ture enti­tled, „Zunei­gung II“ („Affec­tion II“)

A very hap­py and emo­tion­al moment: ENERGETIX COO Dr. Thiel hand­ed over a gleam­ing black dream car to Inter­na­tion­al Mar­ket­ing Direc­tors Biba and Pino Marseglia as part of the ENERGETIXDRIVE programme.

ENERGETIX dis­trib­u­tors Andrea Geiger, Michaela and Andreas Rey, Bir­git Speck, Christa Johannknecht and Kat­ja and Wolf­gang Düsen­er were also delight­ed to receive their new cars from the ENERGETIXDRIVE pro­gramme over the last few weeks.

… that bracelets 2179 and 1373 in the Col­lect series of the Basic range also com­bine real­ly well with the small ele­ments 1487 and 1489?

Com­bi­na­tions desired

As with the clas­sic beads (cat­a­logue page ⁶²⁄₆₃), you just string the ele­ments on the black or turquoise mul­ti-wrap leather bracelets (S‑XL).

Enjoy try­ing out dif­fer­ent combinations!

Inter­view mit Janine Eisen­hauer, ver­ant­wortliche Schmuck­de­signer­in bei ENERGETIX Bingen

CHEVRON

It looks almost as if the shoot­ing even brought the traf­fic in some parts of Man­hat­tan to a standstill?

J. E.: No, of course not… we behaved and we stuck to the high­way code and wait­ed for the green lights at the pedes­tri­an cross­ings to take the pic­tures for this series. But then we did have to move quick­ly, which was great fun, and it was worth it to cap­ture the vibrant street life in these images.

Chevron

What’s new in the Chevron category?

Cat­e­go­ry Chevron — page 111

J. E.: I think the ring with the Chevron motif is a high­light. It stands out because its top is open.I also par­tic­u­lar­ly like the pen­dant because at first glance it looks plain but it does pos­sess an unusu­al fea­ture: it can be worn in two dif­fer­ent direc­tions, for instance, with the arrow tip point­ing side­ways or, when the pen­dant is thread­ed in so that it is turned by 90°C, the arrow tip will point up or down.

YOUNGSTAR

Young Star — page 121

What’s the sto­ry behind SWAG?

J. E.: Well, it was obvi­ous that we should also cre­ate a few pieces for boys. And the word SWAG inspired us here. In Ger­many, it was Lan­gen­schei­dt’s young peo­ple’s word of 2011. SWAG describes a spe­cif­ic atti­tude, and stands for a casu­al­ly cool vibe and charis­mat­ic aura.

The surf motifs are repeat­ed on both pieces: the pen­dant takes the shape of a surf­board and the bracelet pos­sess­es a stain­less-steel ele­ment with mag­nets bear­ing an engrav­ing of a wave and a surf­board. The bracelet beads are made from coconut wood.

Peo­ple attend­ing the launch were also able to admire a new set of jew­ellery for young women on Ivy Quain­oo, the singer who won the Ger­man ver­sion of TV’s „The Voice“.

J. E.: Yes, the set includes a bracelet made from wood­en beads that have been coloured blue: it is adorned by two tag ele­ments, a star motif and a small tag ele­ment pos­sess­ing inte­grat­ed mag­nets. This range comes with match­ing large but very light ear drop­pers and a pen­dant that may be com­bined with a fab­ric cord, a fine long chain or even with the clip loop.

Young Star — page 123

And new ani­mal motifs have been added for the very young ENERGETIX fans?

J. E.: Yes, the owls in a fresh colour com­bi­na­tion and with cute details real­ly do con­sti­tute a very pret­ty motif. The small slid­er for the chil­dren’s bracelets, which may be eas­i­ly com­bined with the longer slid­er ele­ments, is also new.

Leaf­ing through the cat­a­logue, you see pho­tos with unusu­al back­grounds, real­ly spe­cial city impressions…

J. E.: These stills were all tak­en by the pho­tog­ra­ph­er, Heiko Prigge, while we were on loca­tion in NYC. We just want­ed to find excit­ing places where we could take pho­tos for each cat­e­go­ry of jew­ellery. For instance, the mar­ble frieze at the Pub­lic Library, or a mud­guard on a motor­bike or graf­fi­ti that we real­ly saw there and that appeared to be just wait­ing for us: EX NYC.

Thank you very much for the inter­view Janine!

The sil­i­cone sportEX bracelet by ENERGETIX Bin­gen became quite a suc­cess almost imme­di­ate­ly after it was launched. The first deliv­ery sold out with­in just a few days and the demand for sub­se­quent ship­ments was extra­or­di­nar­i­ly high.

Full of inno­va­tion and qual­i­ty: the flex­i­ble sil­i­cone bracelet with inte­grat­ed neodymi­um magnets
The sil­i­cone sportEX bracelet that com­bines a beau­ti­ful and mod­ern design with extra­or­di­nary prac­ti­cal­i­ty comes with strong neodymi­um mag­nets that are encap­su­lat­ed in almost inde­struc­tible sil­i­cone – not only for a young and sport­ing audi­ence in bril­liant colours but also for all those who want to wear a robust bracelet even in demand­ing con­di­tions. A bracelet that will sur­vive the show­er, sauna, swim­ming pool and almost any oth­er sports, leisure, house­hold or hob­by activ­i­ty with­out suf­fer­ing any damage!

How is the sportEX bracelet made? 
ENERGETIX Bin­gen devel­oped and designed the sportEX bracelet and even close­ly super­vised the test batch and first pro­duc­tion runs. ENERGETIX also mon­i­tored the imple­men­ta­tion of its qual­i­ty stan­dards at site.

The pro­duc­tion of sportEX bracelets com­mences with a high-qual­i­ty sil­i­cone mass, which is man­u­fac­tured to sat­is­fy Euro­pean safe­ty stan­dards. The entire pro­duc­tion process is gov­erned by EU reg­u­la­tions (EC), which are based on the REACH sys­tem (Reg­is­tra­tion, Eval­u­a­tion, Autho­ri­sa­tion and Restric­tion of Chem­i­cals) that spec­i­fies the exclu­sive use of reg­is­tered mate­ri­als and the avoid­ance of haz­ardous sub­stances in prod­ucts man­u­fac­tured in accor­dance with the EC’s RoHS direc­tive (Restric­tion of (the use of cer­tain) haz­ardous sub­stances). These reg­u­la­tions apply to such high-qual­i­ty prod­ucts as cars, elec­tri­cal and elec­tron­ic appli­ances and, of course, to sportEX by ENERGETIX Bingen.

Raw sil­i­cone in rolls

The raw sil­i­cone is dyed in accor­dance with ENER­GETIX’s spec­i­fi­ca­tions – in this case a strong pink – and shaped to the right size.

Unfin­ished sil­i­cone bracelets in pink strips

The strips and three mag­nets per bracelet are then placed very care­ful­ly with great accu­ra­cy in a large press and pressed at a very high pres­sure and tem­per­a­ture for a pre­cise­ly defined peri­od of time – they are „baked“ so to speak! This is where the bracelets take their final shape and where the ENERGETIX let­ter­ing in clear writ­ing and Braille as well as all the design ele­ments are applied. This turns the raw sil­i­cone into a soft and flex­i­ble item of jew­ellery that is pleas­ant to wear.

Press (left) and mould (right)

In the next stage of work, the sportEX bracelets are tak­en out of the press to then be finished.

The sil­i­cone bracelets being care­ful­ly removed from the met­al mould

At this point in pro­duc­tion, the sports bracelets still pos­sess the unavoid­able residues from the press­ing stage on them. This indi­cates that suf­fi­cient mate­r­i­al was in the press and that no holes or hol­low spaces have spoilt the jewellery.

The raw sportEX product

After the excess sil­i­cone has been removed and the bracelets have been cleaned, a spe­cial pro­tec­tive film is applied that large­ly pre­vents them from attract­ing dust as is fre­quent­ly the case with cheap prod­ucts. The sportEX bracelets are fin­ished by plac­ing them in the sta­bi­liza­tion oven for an extend­ed peri­od of time.

The sequence of work described above shows how com­plex the pro­duc­tion of sportEX sil­i­cone bracelets actu­al­ly is. But it is only this elab­o­rate man­u­fac­tur­ing process that makes it pos­si­ble to guar­an­tee that the colour will last and that the bracelets will be suf­fi­cient­ly durable. It makes them stand out from many the mass-pro­duced and fre­quent­ly only injec­tion-mould­ed pieces on the mar­ket. And it is not with­out pride that Dr Thiel, COO at ENERGETIX, report­ed the suc­cess of „hav­ing been able to work with a renowned pro­duc­er to tech­ni­cal­ly struc­ture the rel­a­tive­ly com­plex process in such a way that we are able to guar­an­tee a mag­net­ic field strength of 1,200 per mag­net to our dis­trib­u­tors and cus­tomers in spite of the high pro­cess­ing temperature“.

So it only remains to wish every­body lots of fun with the new sports bracelets.

Franziska Knuppe is the celebri­ty backer of the 15th „door“ on BMW’s Art Advent Cal­en­dar – a project in which ENERGETIX is par­tic­i­pat­ing for the first time this year – and is to open „her“ door at the Jumeirah Hotel in Frank­furt am Main.

The inter­na­tion­al­ly suc­cess­ful mod­el – along with the actor, Ralf Bauer, among oth­ers (see pre­vi­ous FROGBLOG report) – is one of 24 back­ers for the works of art that the respec­tive artists are donat­ing to char­i­ty. As the backer for the 15th „door“, Franziska Knuppe vis­it­ed Ilona Arndt at her stu­dios in Hanover to join forces with the artist and paint a pic­ture for the calendar.

Ilona Arndt and
Franziska Knuppe

And today, on Sat­ur­day, 15 Decem­ber 2012, the 15th „door“ on the larg­er-than-life advent cal­en­dar is to be opened and the day’s spe­cif­ic work of art revealed at a fes­tive event being held at the Jumeirah (MyZeil Gallery) in Frank­furt. Inci­den­tal­ly, it’s the first time that the XXL Art Advent Cal­en­dar is also being staged in Frank­furt am Main in addi­tion to Berlin and Munich.

Besides the artist, Ilona Arndt, who is donat­ing her work of art, and her backer, Franziska Knuppe, the man­age­ment at ENERGETIX Bin­gen, which is con­tribut­ing to the pro­jec­t’s suc­cess by mak­ing a large dona­tion to the „Artists for Kids“ char­i­ty, will also be in atten­dance at the event.

A fur­ther high­light besides the unveil­ing of the work of art for the Art Advent Cal­en­dar will be the pre­sen­ta­tion of an enter­tain­ing short film show­ing the pro­duc­tion of a sec­ond joint work of art by Ilona Arndt and Franziska Knuppe. You can watch this short film here!

Teamed togeth­er on a paint­ing: artist Ilona Arndt and mod­el Franziska Knuppe

Inter­est­ed read­ers will find all 24 „sto­ries“ and pho­tos of the works of art donat­ed by the 24 artists in the spe­cial edi­tion of „Char­i­ty Mag­a­zin Dezem­ber 2012“. The 24 films may also be watched on an online Advent cal­en­dar at www.kunstadventskalender.de. www.kunstadventskalender.de.