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A life with and for Miele
Dr Peter Zinkann celebrated his 90th. birthday.
Dr Peter Zinkann, Co-Proprietor and Executive Director of the Miele Group, now in retirement, celebrated his 90th. birthday on September 17, 2018. Around 200 company employees were able to congratulate Peter Zinkann in person; numerous good wishes from other production plants and departments were submitted via an online guestbook. The town of Gütersloh staged a ceremonial act for its long-standing freeman. The nonagenarian expressed his thanks by making a generous donation to the town, earmarked for use in nancing educational projects.
Peter Zinkann entered the employment of the company in 1957, a company which had been jointly founded by his grandfather Reinhard Zinkann and Carl Miele sen. in 1899. He was the prime mover behind the rst fully automatic washing machine introduced in 1958. Model 505 was developed by the engineer
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With passion from expert to expert
Precision, passion and perfection – these topics were communicated by Miele UK at an event in London in the summer of 2017. Kitchen part- ners were invited to meet with experts, among whom were two of the country's leading chefs; Anna Hansen MBE and Sven Hanson Britt. They spoke freely about Miele in their own kitchens. The built-in-appliances allow them to recreate restaurant quality dishes at home. The guests were introduced to a market environ- ment where four London producers had their own market stalls equipped with appropriate Miele appliances. Split into smaller groups, guests spent ve minutes with each producer who shared their passion for producing quality, locally-sourced products, while explaining why they entrust their produce to Miele appliances. For example, Bread Ahead, one of the leading Bread Schools in London, used Moisture plus and explained how it enables them to replicate their baked goods at home.
Steaming through Austria
24 locations with risotto, noodles, spicy dump- lings and sweet desserts – Austria experienced a completely different kind of roadshow in the summer of 2017. With a steam oven food- truck, Miele inspired foodies and passers-by throughout the country with the new, healthy and time-saving type of cooking with steam, including free tasting samples. Anyone post- ing a photo of the foodtruck with the hashtag #withsteam on Facebook or Instagram had the chance to win a dinner party for ten as well as ten surprise packages.
Rolling and cooking: the Miele steam oven foodtruck tours Austria
Peter Zinkann and was later to prove to be a pillar of Miele's continued suc- cess. Throughout the following years, Zinkann was the driving force behind numerous technical innovations. Pat- ents in the hundreds were the result of his work. Together with his partner Rudolf Miele, responsible for sales through to his death in 2004, Peter Zinkann put his stamp on the com- pany for more than four decades. At the end of 2004 he gave up his of ce as Executive Director for age-related reasons. Nevertheless, he is present in the company virtually every day and enjoys the esteem of the entire Miele world and beyond.
Peter Zinkann developed the washing machine 505.
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