Schefenacker AG moves to Britain

Schefenacker AG, the world's biggest maker of car mirrors, has moved its corporate headquarters lock, stock and barrel from a sleepy Schwabian town to Britain to escape German bankruptcy laws.

The move by the family company, to be renamed Schefenacker Plc and based in Brighton, is being watched closely by distressed companies across Europe.

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German auto parts maker Schefenacker AG may move its headquarters to Britain, home to about 90 percent of the lenders with whom it is now negotiating a plan to stave off bankruptcy, a person familiar with the situation said.

The source added, however, that the company was not considering moving its operations or its management to the UK.

Why are post boxes in Germany yellow?

Its people like you that spoilt Britain

I'm from the UK and I drink Carling Black Label. Why can't you get beer like that in Germany?

Good point. Krout Scum. Gas every last one of them I reckon.

Reinheitsgebot, I love you.

A crap, money-grubbing commercial brewery will manage to brew bland rubbish either within or without the constraints of the Reinheitsgebot. The problem is, that concentration on this limited list of ingredients as the core of beer quality allows compromise in many other key areas. [...]

Considering the number of breweries it possesses, Germany is home to relatively few beer styles. Bavaria, with its hundreds of breweries only has a handful of different styles. Belgium, on the other hand, with it's open-minded approach to ingredients, has almost as many styles as breweries. Even Austria, with only 90-odd breweries, manages to have at least as many different types of beer as the whole of Germany.

TT is just a bacchanalian pit of decadence ignoring the soothsayers while Rome burns, gather your belongings and loved ones JN and flee while you still have your sanity. Oh woe, woe and thrice woe!

German Business is leading the way in trying to lift the economy.

Aren't you getting this mixed up with Cassandra, the seeress who was cursed never to be believed?

Its people like you that spoilt Britain and now you are in germany doing the same.

I have to say I think the german pils is second to non and how you can compare it to harp and the like is ridiculous.

Wrong, wrong, wrong.

First of all, you're calling the Biersteuergesetz the RhG. They are not the same thing. Secondly, the RhG cannot be enforced due to the EU.

> 2: It's a bread protection rather than beer protection law.
Nope. The RhG was one of the first-ever food purity laws and targeted basic foods, including bread and beer (unless you wanted cholera you didn't drink plain water). It also served to keep the unwashed masses from drinking the nobility-only Weißbier. In 1603 the Elector of Bavaria /mandated/ that wheat be also used for beer.

> 5: There are still chemical additives used in German beer.
To claim that water purification is "adding chemicals to beer" is at best disingenuous. In reality it's a flat-out, bald-faced lie, no different than writing "There's poison in Bavarian beer!!!" because the water used may have been chlorinated at the time of processing.

> 10. German brewers do not always stick to the Reinheitsgebot themselves.
Because it hasn't been an actual, enforceable law for years. It was killed by Europe and a bunch of brewers who DO add everything possible, including: artificial flavouring agents, stabilizers, foam conditioners, and preservatives like heptyl paraben.

And if you're going to claim that Bavarian beer makers use additives for their exported stuff but not for their local market you need to back that up. Heineken is not a Bavarian beer.

I love the Belgian beers and travel every few months around the country stocking up not only at Carrefour but picking up great small-quantity local and trappist beers in all 10 provinces. Nevertheless, the beer here in Bavaria is damned good and doesn't need the crap additives that brewers such as Anheuser-Busch and InBev throw in swill such as Bud Light and Oranjeboom in order to keep you from spitting it out the instant it touches your tongue. We also don't like companies coming in (InBev), buying up the good breweries (Löwenbräu), "tuning" the flavour to give it more mass appeal, then moving the brewery altogether (Hoegaarden, Jupiter).

Regards,
BadDoggie

Britain is indeed trying to become a global economic hub, with easy-going takeover rules, huge inward investment, generous bankruptcy provision

I will be staying another 2 years in germany. the company like what i have to say.

Wrong, wrong, wrong.

> 2: It's a bread protection rather than beer protection law.
Nope. The RhG was one of the first-ever food purity laws and targeted basic foods, including bread and beer (unless you wanted cholera you didn't drink plain water). It also served to keep the unwashed masses from drinking the nobility-only Weißbier. In 1603 the Elector of Bavaria /mandated/ that wheat be also used for beer.

The Reinheitsgebot was introduced in part to prevent price competition with bakers for wheat and rye. The restriction of grains to barley was meant to ensure the availability of sufficient amounts of affordable bread, as the more valuable wheat and rye were reserved for use by bakers. Today many Bavarian beers are again brewed using wheat and are thus no longer compliant with the Reinheitsgebot.

> 5: There are still chemical additives used in German beer.
To claim that water purification is "adding chemicals to beer" is at best disingenuous. In reality it's a flat-out, bald-faced lie, no different than writing "There's poison in Bavarian beer!!!" because the water used may have been chlorinated at the time of processing.

the beer here in Bavaria is damned good

Britain brews some of the best beers in the world and it depresses me enormously that most Brits don't even realise it.

Seems to me the rest of the world doesn't realize it either

Ireland...