Contacts and Management GmbH

In 1988 Gerhard Benneck started a German recruitment agency. Starting out with purely advertising-based search the company was soon filling positions for various international companies. Industries served included IT, Chemical, Construction, Machine Building and many others.We are a German Recruitment Agency, specializing in headhunting and helping companies with foreign roots recruit the people they need within Germany.

Soon the demand for further recruitment services required an expansion into direct executive search, or “headhunting”. Contacts & Management took up this challenge and excelled in it due to the special recruiting methods it had developed.

By the mid 1990s a further field was opened to the agency with Mergers & Acquisitions. A number of German mid-level companies were sold, mainly to international investors (both strategic and financial investors).

Today Contacts & Management has its main office in Düsseldorf and works throughout Germany as well as in adjacent countries headhunting and recruiting top candidates in many industries.

Since the start of the company we find the right people for our clients. The “right” people are becoming ever more important. We search through advertisement, internet, direct search (headhunting) and through contacts that we have built up all over Germany through the years.

In the meantime there is hardly an industry in which we haven’t worked: IT, Machine Building, Electronics, Medical, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Construction, Financial etc. We work throughout Germany (Germany isn’t that big) and at various levels, finding Country Managers, Sales Managers, CFO’s or simply an excellent salesman with the potential to build things up.

One of our specialties is helping international companies here in Germany. Due to the fact that Gerhard Benneck is an American with many years of experience in Germany (speaking both languages fluently) he can more easily understand the needs of international clients.

We have been active in the field of Mergers and Acquisitions in Germany since 1992.We have helped a number of international companies make the acquisitions in Germany and in Europe that they were looking for. The industries ranged from staffing companies through to medical equipment companies, trading companies through to construction companies.

If you are looking to acquire a company in Germany, contact us with your requirements. We can discreetly “knock on doors” and find companies that are not on the market currently, giving you the first chance to acquire interesting enterprises in this largest of European markets.