Showing Paths that Point to the future

For the third time now the newspaper "Das Handelsblatt" sponsored in Berlin the conference "Security Policy and the Defence Industry". Ecolog AG participated for the first time at the September 18-19 event, and with great success. The internationally focussed conference offers leading representatives of politics, the military and industrial and service industries a forum in which to discuss the latest developments in security policy and their effects on the market for armaments. In this framework Ecolog AG made a convincing impression through its presentation of future oriented ways of thinking and new objectives in security financing by the private sector.

The conference program, lead by the publisher of the weekly newspaper "Die Zeit", Dr. Theo Sommer, provided for some 40 lectures by distinguished speakers such as the Federal Minister of Defence Dr. Franz Josef Jung and the Danish Minister of Defence Søren Gade. This circle included Dr. Ulrich Horsmann, Chairman of the Board of Ecolog AG. Addressing an audience of 300 senior members of the German Armed Forces, relevant ministries and agencies, defence-oriented organizations, associations and advisory bodies, as well as consultants to business, political analysts and representatives of the press. Dr. Horsmann spoke on the subject "All Risks for the Private Sector, All Security for the State - the Distorted Image of PPP Must Not be Allowed to Become Reality" (this was the title of his address). In the foreground of his presentation's substance were the ways in which private sector service providers can carry out tasks within military deployments, and how they can guarantee the equipment of the military. In addition in his presentation - which met with the strongest approval on the part of his public - Ecolog chief Horsmann stressed the advantages of business risk that a private enterprise may take economic advantage of vis-à-vis the cameralistics of the State. Business, he said, had the opportunity to achieve a great deal, particularly in the areas of procurement and personnel matters.

Ecolog AG scored additional points thanks to its professionally managed stand at the conference. Ecolog AG employees provided information to interested conference participants with élan, and were repeatedly able to engage visitors in dialogue. Through its participation in events such as this Ecolog AG strengthens its role as a pioneer in the development and expansion of the privatisation of support functions for the military. Thus the enterprise is not merely standing shoulder-to-shoulder with troops in deployment areas, but is using business potential in order to continue to act in an innovative and progressive manner.