Dominique Ferrero

BASF Coatings GmbH designs, develops, produces, and markets automotive OEM coatings, automotive refinishes, industrial coatings, and decorative paints for customers worldwide. Its automotive OEM coatings include e-coats, primers, basecoats, and clearcoats. The firm also offers commercial transport products for the manufacturers of commercial vehicles, such as agricultural machines, construction machines, earthmovers, buses, tractor trailers, and trailers and railway vehicles; and special-purpose vehicles and bodies, including fire-fighting vehicles, cement mixers, and cattle trucks. The company was founded in 1888 and is headquartered in Munster, Germany.

The Hertie Foundation engages as a private funding association supporting the research and dialogue on the subject of the brain and combatting brain disease. The company was founded by Georg Karg in 1974 and is headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany.

HORNBACH Management AG is a German family-owned company that operates as the largest operational subsidiary of the HORNBACH Holding AG & Co. KGaA, which includes the HORNBACH Baumarkt AG, HORNBACH Baustoff Union GmbH, and HORNBACH Immobilien AG. The private company is based in Weinstrasse, Germany. The company is a leading player in the Do-It-Yourself industry in Europe, with 169 Bau- und Gartenmärkten, two Fachmärkten, 39 Baustoff-Handelsniederlassungen, and online shops in nine European countries. The company was founded in 2015, and Albrecht Hornbach has been the CEO of the company since 2009.