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progros further expands its team 15.04.2019 Angelina Zinner and Benita Lenarz will join the progros team in the area of project management and customer service with effect from 15 April.   Angelina Zinner will support the Project Management department as Junior Manager. She will work alongside Senior Project Manager OS&E Anja Schlegel and Project Managers…

Disruptive technologies – sponsor group in discussion with students 12.04.2019 What disruptive technologies is the hotel industry using today and will it use tomorrow? How much is it investing in digitalisation and automation and in what areas? And where do the restaurant trade and the hotel industry stand with regard to the use of artificial…

Vincent Bury new Key Account Manager at procurement “buy” progros 01.04.2019 Vincent Bury will be joining procurement “buy” progros from 1 April. He will be following in the footsteps of Stefan Krämer, who will leave progros at the end of March. Vincent Bury will thus complete the Key Account Management team for Southern Europe, which…

Deceptive packaging Oehler’s world of procurement – Joe’s column 27.03.2019 The negative prize for “Deceptive Packaging of the Year” is awarded annually. In 2019 it went to a well-known producer of potato crisps for reducing the contents from 170 g to 100 g and increasing the size of the package by 25% while leaving the…

Out of the Box – concept lounge “buy” progros THE meeting place for industry leaders, top hoteliers and innovation managers 25.03.2019 progros was again present in Hamburg with its “Out of the Box” concept lounge at what was Gastro Vision’s 20th anniversary between 15 and 19 March. The programme featured world debuts and a daily…

Young talent development at the Hotalents Congress in Wiesloch Jochen Oehler and Mario Pick leads workshop on “Job interview” 21.03.2019 progros is once again supporting this year’s “Hotalents” young hotel congress, the second of which is to be held in the Best Western Plus Platin Congress Hotel in Wiesloch on 1–2 April. progros will again…

NEW and now also for Android: the progros Invoice app Clever mobile editing of invoices 20.03.2019 The iOS version launched in 2018 has now been recently joined by the smart progros app for digital invoice management in the Android Store for all progros clients.   Therefore we can now offer all progros clients the additional…

progros hotels in a shower of stars The Fontenay and Köhlerstube der Traube Tonbach receive first Michelin star 07.03.2019 The latest highly anticipated edition of the Guide Michelin lists a total of 261 one-star establishments. A large number of progros hotels can also be justifiably proud, with two of them even gaining their very first…