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Mittelstand are dominant global players in valuable niches that are largely invisible to the average consumer—tools, parts and components—niches that nevertheless are critical to the manufacturing process.
Small and midsize companies make up nearly 80% of private-sector employment in Germany, the world's fourth-largest economy, and 98% of its 350,000 exporters. Mittelstand companies ship products to, on average, 16 different foreign markets.
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"We have to constantly innovate, and we have to do it smarter and faster than competitors that have the benefit of a lower cost base," (Moi ici: Esta lição não foi dada na escola dos encalhados porque ainda não tinham sido escritos os "textbooks" que a descrevem, porque ainda não tinha sido desenvolvida a necessidade que a criou, assim, os encalhados não a conhecem, e têm dificuldade em a descobrir porque têm a largura de banda ocupada com o exemplo das empresas grandes, que é o que lêem nos jornais e revistas) says Mr. Linn, the 66-year-old founder of Linn High Therm, an industrial and laboratory furnace maker in the northern Bavarian town of Eschenfelden.
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Mr. Linn founded the company in 1969 with a small loan and a 550-square-foot rented workshop. He quickly developed a brisk business in manufacturing laboratory furnaces used to cast dental crowns and cavity fillings.
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Linn High Therm long ago exited that market, which is now flooded with hundreds of low-cost manufacturers. But it has continued to enter and dominate new and highly profitable niches, (Moi ici: Este é o truque, os encalhados só sabem mexer numa alavanca... a dos custos, logo, imploram por uma desvalorização que salve, pelo menos temporariamente, os modelos de negócio tornados obsoletos. À custa de tanto quererem salvar o passado, hipotecam o futuro) such as furnaces for making the fluorescent materials used as an anti-counterfeiting measure in bank notes, and in energy-saving light bulbs. The company has more than 90 registered patents to show for its strategy—nearly three for every four of its 125 employees."
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