Pia Kollmar among the 100 most influential women in German business

"The news came as a complete surprise to me and I was therefore all the more delighted! When you subordinate so much in your life to the success of your family heritage, the OeTTINGER Brewery, and are then rewarded in such a way, it gives you an enormous amount of strength and motivation to continue in exactly the same way. However, I don't see the award as a personal success alone. The OeTTINGER Brewery lives and breathes through our exceptionally committed employees and, of course, through our outstanding original OeTTINGER products."

With the initiative around the 100 top women in German business, manager magazin and BCG want to document and promote positive change in the corporate world. The women were selected by a top-class jury of representatives from business and politics. The female candidates from different sectors were not selected on the basis of formal offices, but on the basis of their real influence. In addition to women entrepreneurs, other award categories include chairpersons, managers, supervisory board members, expatriates (German women managers abroad), partners and influencers.

Pia Kollmar becomes President of the traditional association BierConvent International
The importance of Pia Kollmar for the entire brewing industry is also taken into account by BierConvent International: at the turn of the year, Pia Kollmar expands her sphere of influence in the brewing sector as the new president of the sponsoring association founded in Munich in 1969. She had already been active as a member, a so-called Notable, for three years. The BierConvent International sees itself as a global institution for research, care and education about the 7,000-year-old cultural beverage beer. Pia Kollmar starts her new honorary office as president of the Convention, which consists of around 200 international personalities, with a special goal: "It is not enough to criticise that only a few top positions are occupied by women. When, as with BierConvent International, the opportunity arises for the first time to be involved as president, I gladly accept this challenge. In doing so, I make it my task to open up this incomparably great association of friends of beer from all over the world more to women. For only together can the strongly male-dominated topic of beer, in all its emotional, social, economic, ecological and culinary facets, be accompanied into the future in the best possible way".