{"id":11061,"date":"2023-07-12T10:32:25","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T08:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blue-cap.de\/newsletter-q3-2023-3\/"},"modified":"2023-07-12T10:32:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T08:32:25","slug":"newsletter-q3-2023-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blue-cap.de\/en\/newsletter-q3-2023-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Q3 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsletter Q3 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[71,76],"tags":[],"acf":{"header_bg_type":"fd_header-basic","header_bg_images":{"header_bg_image":"none","header_bg_image_position":false,"header_bg_image_desktop":false,"header_bg_image_mobile":false,"header_bg_video":false},"global_variable_fields":[{"acf_fc_layout":"textblock_default","textblock_h1":true,"textblock_headline":"","headline_color":"fd_tcolor-white","headline_size":"fd_text-h2","headline_background":"fd_headline-bg fd_headline-bg-black","headline_line":"fd_headline-line-long","textblock_subline":"Newsletter Q3 2023","textblock_subline_color":"fd_tcolor-accent","textblocks":[{"textblock_accent_color":"fd_headline-bg fd_headline-bg-white fd_tcolor-black","textblock_text_color":"fd_tcolor-black","textblock_weight":"fd_tweight-normal","textblock_accent":"","textblock_text":"Dear shareholders,<br \/>\r\nLadies and Gentlemen,<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nSkills shortage and New Work have not only changed our working world since yesterday. Therefore, in our group of companies, the question arises how medium-sized companies can retain their employees and become even more attractive to potential employees. We have anchored the topic of \"People & Culture\" as a fixed component of the transformation in our portfolio companies. For this newsletter we spoke to our colleague Carolin Scheffer (Director People & Culture) about employer branding and corporate culture. 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Carolin Scheffer (Director People & Culture of Blue Cap AG) tells how our portfolio companies position themselves as attractive employers and what role the executives of the Blue Cap portfolio companies play in the transformation process."}],"button_br":false,"textblock_buttons":[{"textblock_button_link":{"title":"Read more","url":"https:\/\/www.blue-cap.de\/en\/newsletter-q3-2023-blue-cap-insights\/","target":""}}],"textblock_background_color":"fd_bg-darkgrey","container":"container","container_mobile":false,"container_mobile_margin":false,"columns_desktop_xl":"col-xxl-12","columns_desktop":"col-lg-12","columns_tablet":"col-md-12","columns_mobile":"col-12","columns_offset_desktop_xl":"m-xxl-auto","columns_offset_desktop":"m-lg-auto","columns_offset_tablet":"m-md-auto","columns_offset_mobile":"m-auto","spacing_above":"mt-0","spacing_beneath":"mb-0","spacing_inner_above":"fd_pt-xs","spacing_inner_beneath":"fd_pb-xs","zindex":"0","base_horizontal_padding":true},{"acf_fc_layout":"textblock_default","textblock_h1":true,"textblock_headline":"","headline_color":"fd_tcolor-white","headline_size":"fd_text-h2","headline_background":"fd_headline-bg fd_headline-bg-black","headline_line":"fd_headline-line-long","textblock_subline":"Portfolio News","textblock_subline_color":"fd_tcolor-black","textblocks":[{"textblock_accent_color":"fd_headline-bg fd_headline-bg-white fd_tcolor-black","textblock_text_color":"fd_tcolor-black","textblock_weight":"fd_tweight-normal","textblock_accent":"","textblock_text":"_con-pearl recently expanded its own recycling capacities: with the acquisition of a new plastics recycling plant at the Leinefelde site and the relocation of the previous Erema plant to the second site in Hillscheid, the recycling capacities were significantly increased \u2013 in Leinefelde by 25% and in Hillscheid even by 150%. 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