Happy World Bee Day!

20 May is World Bee Day. The day aims to raise awareness and inform people about the importance of the bee to our ecosystem, as bee populations around the world have declined sharply in recent decades.

Last year, Nagel-Group established five bee colonies at the sites in Versmold, Borgholzhausen, Bochum, Langenfeld and Eschweiler. In this way, Nagel-Group wants to make a contribution to strengthening the insects and ensuring the pollination of our food plants around the Nagel-Group sites. The busy Nagel-Group bees have survived the winter well and are already filling the trays with honey. This year there will be a few jars of Nagel-Group honey again in autumn. Depending on what the busy little bees bring in during spring and summer, this will result in around 15kg of all-year honey per bee colony.

Just a few weeks ago, the apprentices at our Borgholzhausen branch expanded the flowering food supply on site. The wall at the branch, which was previously covered with grass, was quickly transformed into a bee-friendly flower meadow. Soon, the first flowers will bloom there and provide honey bees, as well as wild bees and other insects, with a large and varied nectar and pollen supply.

Get active yourself: on the windowsill and balcony or garden.

Flowering kitchen herbs for the windowsill and balcony such as savory, borage, mint, sage, chives, rosemary, thyme, hyssop and lemon balm in the balcony box delight bees and enrich our food. For the perennial flower bed, the following are suitable: stonecrop, globe thistle, snapdragon, phlox, knapweed, mallow, ribbon flower and forget-me-not. Even a bee-flower mixture from the garden market, sown in a flower pot and regularly watered, already offers a large number of insects – and certainly also the bees of Nagel-Group – a rich food selection from spring to autumn! In winter, the colonies then manage with what they have collected until around October and what they still have left in the hive after the harvest.

More than 150 young people start their professional career in Nagel-Group

Versmold, August 3, 2021 – More than 150 young people will start their vocational training throughout Germany in Nagel-Group during 2021. In total, around 550 young people are currently completing their apprenticeship at Nagel-Group in Germany, in a wide range of vocational training positions.

“Nagel-Group apprenticeships can be summed up as versatile and multi-faceted. We provide a wide range of vocational training, placing particular emphasis on a well-grounded and practical start. This is the cornerstone of quality apprenticeship,” emphasises Christian Bleiker.

Nagel-Group’s vocational training puts the apprentices through all the areas relevant to their apprenticeship and for successful qualification. Practical experience is backed up by theory from vocational school or university. Nagel-Group offers apprentices many different career prospects after they have completed their vocational training, and Nagel-Group places great store in promoting young talent.

A total of 26 of the trainees are starting a new phase in their lives at the Borgholzhausen and Versmold sites – their vocational training. For 13 of these apprentices, this starts with a 2-day introductory event at the Versmold site. This is where the apprentices get to know Nagel-Group as a company and, above all, the people who will accompany them in the coming years. This will also include information on important topics concerning their vocational training. Christian Bleiker, Executive Director HR & Legal, the works council and the People Development department will welcome the guests.

The introductory event is designed to cater for four prospective forwarding and logistics services employees, one IT systems integration specialist, two IT systems management employees, one car body and vehicle construction mechanic as well as five dual study Bachelor of Arts (FH) students specialising in business administration and business information technology. One feature of the event is that they all independently gather information in the form of a rally across the company premises, and in the process get to know the Versmold site and the company that will be training them.

Jasmin Fellhölter (dual student Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration) and Eric Brohl (IT specialist for system integration), reported on their experiences in the first year of training at the end of the introductory event to get the new trainees in the mood for their path into the professional world. “One of the highlights for me was that I was able to work on tasks and projects independently right from the start of the apprenticeship”, Jasmin Fellhölter told us.

“As one of the largest training companies in the region, it is important to us that our new apprentices feel at home here from day one and that they have an exciting and, above all, successful training period overall. And if they then see their future in Nagel-Group after successfully completing their vocational training, we will have achieved our goal together,” reports Silvia Naschert, training manager at Versmold.