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What started in 2016 as a university project — a website for his mother's paint shop in Regensburg — became the starting point for one of Germany's best-known D2C brands. In 2019, Erik Reintjes founded MissPompadour with his sister Astrid and friend Niklas Lütteken, building direct dialogue with customers in a Facebook group instead of relying on classic SEO and SEA. Without any outside capital, the brand grew into the market leader for water-based and chalk paints in the DACH region, now with its own production and more than 100 employees. Expanding into brick-and-mortar retail through partners like Hornbach and Interliving, Erik shows how a genuine customer relationship can reshape an entire industry.

Before JUNGLÜCK, Benedikt Klarmann had already built several businesses, most recently an online print shop. The idea came almost by accident: at home, he overheard his mother and his wife talking about how unhappy they were with their cosmetic products, and started wondering what could be done better. In 2018, he founded JUNGLÜCK with a commitment to radical sustainability and real ingredient transparency at its core, without any external investors. Today JUNGLÜCK is one of the fastest-growing clean beauty brands in the DACH region and has made the leap from online shop to its own flagship stores and traditional retail.

Right in the middle of Munich's Alter Botanischer Garten sits Park Café's Kaminsaal – light-filled, modern, and still full of traditional Bavarian warmth. With its stylish ambience and direct access to the green courtyard, it's a special setting for networking, dinner, and inspiring conversations.