Our long history has taught us that success requires the dedicated hearts and minds of all our colleagues. After the devastations of the Second World War which all but wiped out our company, it took the single-minded focus of our former Group Chairman Mr. Michael Jebsen (VI), his lifelong associate Mr. Dieter von Hansemann as well as Mr. Hans Jacob Jebsen and Mr. A.P. Jessen to rebuild it. This was an enormous task to those pioneers who knew that they owed this effort to those who came before and those who would come after them.