EU#8 - Anheuser-Busch InBev: Courage, Capital, and the Discipline to Build an Empire It takes only three ingredients to brew beer: water, barley, and hops. But building a global beer empire is different.Read more

Main “Take aways”: - You get a good managed company, with a healthy balance sheet, at a fair price. - There is more “future” than you can see in the Snowflake.Read more

Inditex: From Aprons in Galicia to the World’s Most Efficient Fashion Machine In 1963, in the rainy port city of A Coruña in northern Spain, a young man did not dream of runways, Paris fashion weeks, or luxury branding. He was not sketching haute couture.Read more

Siemens: From Industrial Giant to the Digital Operating System of the Real World For many investors, Siemens still carries an outdated image: a sprawling industrial conglomerate that buys promising businesses only to suffocate them in layers of corporate bureaucracy. It is a convenient narrative—and a wrong one.Read more

LVMH: Turning Heritage into the World’s Strongest Luxury Empire Luxury is supposed to be rare, handcrafted, and personal. Scale, on the other hand, belongs to factories and fast-moving consumer goods.Read more

Airbus: From Political Experiment to Global Aerospace Power In 1970, Europe made a decision that sounded almost naïve: it would challenge America in the skies. At the time, US manufacturers—especially Boeing—dominated global aviation.Read more

In the world of enterprise software, few names carry as much weight as SAP. What started as a small German startup has evolved into the largest publicly listed company in Europe by market capitalization.Read more

Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) is a pioneer in robotic-assisted surgery, revolutionizing the medical field with its da Vinci surgical system. Founded in 1995, the company has continuously innovated, making minimally invasive surgery more precise and efficient.Read more

ASML: From Philips Management Buyout to Europe’s Biggest Company In the global semiconductor industry, power does not necessarily sit with the companies that design chips or sell consumer devices. It sits with the one company that enables all of them to exist at the cutting edge.Read more