In the Pötter family, the 84-year-old grandfather oversees the business, the grandmother provides the secretariat, the 58-year-old father manages the shop, and the 24-year-old son reap the benefits. The family business "
is the ideal formula
", summarizes Gerd, the founder of Pötter Klima, an SME specializing in ventilation and air conditioning systems. The patriarch is seated in the small reception room, near the coffee machine, next to his grandson, Louis, who nods. It is the young man who came to the Osnabrück Chamber of Commerce to receive a prize of 5,000 euros awarded by the Raiffeisen bank. The company was recognized for the quality of its innovations, in particular its infrared heating technologies using carbon nanotubes.
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