We had loads of fun! – as every year at the GATC Christmas party in Constance!

Our sales representatives came from all parts of Europe to GATC Biotech’s headquarters in Constance. Together with all GATC employees, their partners and children, we celebrated our yearly Christmas party.

Peter Pohl, CEO of GATC Biotech, used the opportunity to thank all longtime employees and honored two 10th and one 20th anniversary.

Having a savory roast, various salads and desserts, great vine – and not to forget our traditional Caipirinha – we all enjoyed the cheerful atmosphere and looked back at a successful year.

Also Santa Claus and Knecht Ruprecht (the German Santa’s helping hand) came for a short visit. In change to a poem or Christmas song he had a little present for each child. The tension for the adults rose when heaving the yearly secret Santa and tombola.

We thank all our employees for this successful, cheerful and yummy party and wish all of you a wonderful Christmas time!

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Schön war es! – mal wieder auf der GATC Biotech Weihnachtsfeier!

Aus allen Teilen Europas reisten unsere GATC Biotech Außendienstmitarbeiter an, um sich hier in Konstanz gemeinsam mit allen GATC-lern, Partnern und Kindern auf die Weihnachtszeit einzustimmen.

Peter Pohl, CEO der GATC Biotech, bedankte sich an dieser Stelle bei langjährigen Mitarbeitern und beglückwünschte zu zwei  10-jährigen und einem 20-jährigen Jubiläum.

Bei herzhaftem Braten, zahlreichen Salaten und Desserts, gutem Wein – und nicht zu vergessen,  dem zur Tradition gewordenen Caipirinha – genossen wir die fröhliche Stimmung und blickten auf ein erfolgreiches Jahr zurück.

Auch der Nikolaus und Knecht Ruprecht statteten uns einen kurzen Besuch ab. Im Austausch zu einem kleinen Beitrag in Form von Gedicht oder Weihnachtslied war für jedes Kind ein Geschenk dabei. Für die Erwachsenen steigerte sich die Spannung beim alljährlichen Wichteln und der Tombola.

Wir bedanken uns bei  allen Mitarbeitern für die gelungene, lustige und  leckere Weihnachtsfeier und wünschen allen weiterhin eine schöne Weihnachtszeit! 

All good things in life begin with a fruitful and inspiring partnership. The Böxle Calender 2011 is no exception, and constitutes the Böxle's emotional peak since it’s birth in 1999.

It was a daunting task to select and justify 49 shots from the many Böxle pictures submitted during our summer campaign „Böxle on holidays 2010“. Christian, who had the original idea for both the summer project and the calender and who was, consequentially, assigned project manager, pursued the objective - in close cooperation with the marketing team - to create a Böxle Calender that reflects the vast diversity of the photographs as comprehensively as possible. In order to include as many photos as possible, we decided to give each month two single pages. All of this happened, naturally, after having received the official permission from the photographers to use their unique Böxle art for that purpose.

The Böxle Calendar 2011 is now in press. We expect delivery of our "limited edition" on December 16th. Although not even available yet, the Böxle Calendar has already become very popular. The current order list is quite impressive and we will do our utmost to work through it until Christmas.

However, no matter how long this list may be, one thing is absolutely clear. First, our Böxle photographers - many enthusiastic customers and GATC staff – will hold a calendar in their hands, because all the credit is due to them. Without their ideas, inspiration and emotional bond to the Böxle we would not have been able to realize this project at all.

In this sense, with all my heart: THANK YOU, dear Böxle photographers!

During our photo competition our fans uploaded more than 80 pictures onto our facebook fanpage. We did not expect such amazing results! So we want to say "Thank you" to everyone for contributing many great Böxle photos! Seeing these beautiful pictures we got the idea of the "Böxle Calendar 2011". So we started asking our fans, if we could use their pictures for the calendar. As reply we got very encouraging emails like "It would be an honour for my pictures to be in GATC calender, you can use them. Thank you! "or "Being such an important service to us, I have to say that all the people in the lab were really delighted with the idea of “Böxle on holidays".

So here is the first idea for the calendar...

PS: The Böxle Calendar will be available on our fanpage soon... :-)