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Insights into life and work at BayWa

Over 25,000 people worldwide belong to the BayWa family. Each and every one of them does, what really matters. Whether in the office or in the warehouse, whether as a mechatronics engineer or IT specialist, whether on site in the region or out in the world: no matter the position or profession, each and every employee is pitiching in to secure energy, food and building supplies.

Planning solar projects in an ecologically & economically smart way

From Damascus to Dresden: the career path of eco-engineer Dr. Nora Adam is as varied as her research. Most recently, she worked for the United Nations. Today, she ensures that the ecological and economic aspects of BayWa r.e. Solar Projects GmbH's solar projects are in harmony. In this interview, she explains how she achieves this.

Typewriters, confetti and the very first e-mail: The beginnings of BayWa IT

"Anyone who works in IT has their finger on the pulse of the times - and that's no resting pulse," says Morena Gärtner. She speaks from her own experience: the current IT training coordinator experienced digitalisation at BayWa from the very beginning, when typewriters still dominated the office scene and the term digitalisation was not yet part of our vocabulary.

100 BayWa solutions you may not have known about

From the drought monitor to ready-to-install bathrooms: this list brings together over 100 special achievements, solutions, projects or innovations from the BayWa cosmos. It is a sign of the expertise and inventiveness of BayWa employees.

Grandma is not a vegan: How a cheesecake recipe unites worlds

Isabella Cordesmeyer loves cheesecake. It reminds her of her beloved grandma, her family and her home country of Brazil. However, when friends or family come to visit, the BayWa food expert sometimes changes the recipe. Because unlike Grandma, some of her guests are vegan, cannot tolerate lactose or are allergic to gluten. She recommends two cheesecake recipes so that everyone gets a slice of the cake.

€15,000 prize money: Great opportunity for young agripreneurs

Farmers around the world have a particularly important task: food security. As BayWa, we want to stand by them as a partner. Through the BayWa Foundation, we have also been supporting predominantly young agricultural scientists in Africa since 2019.

Too young to run a business? Manager at the age of 21

Six years after graduating from secondary school, Magdalena Schöberl became operations manager at a BayWa building materials site.She was just 21 years old at the time. Juggling figures is at the centre of her work, as she has to calculate quotations, orders and purchase orders for her customers on a daily basis. Her age was never an issue for her team and the customers quickly got used to it.