The global economy is going towards winners and dinosaurs. Just watch the semiconductor industry. Eat or be eaten. There were much more smaller companies providing different parts 2 decades ago. NEC, Hitachi, Altium were eaten by Renesas. Intel history of acquisitions is very long. Every current major corporation has a massive list of acquisitions.
Basically the same story with food corporations. Dozen companies provide food for whole western world. Cars? Toyota, Stellantis and Volkswagen with their sub-brands provide cars.
Economy of scale is the thing. And it will kill Mittelstand. It’s already happening. Large purchasing power gives another price during negotiations. Same sales people will sell dozens of products instead of mittelstand’s speciality. You only need accounting once. As well as HR. The Mittelstand must be very highly specialized to be untouched by global mega corporations. There is also no life-work balance in the process when working with mega corporation. It will squeeze the resources out of Mittelstand just by the size difference. The Mittelstand I work for is already lost with all the EU paperwork providing reach, rohs, sustainability and battery Verordnung documents to the customers.
Basically the same story with food corporations. Dozen companies provide food for whole western world. Cars? Toyota, Stellantis and Volkswagen with their sub-brands provide cars.
Economy of scale is the thing. And it will kill Mittelstand. It’s already happening. Large purchasing power gives another price during negotiations. Same sales people will sell dozens of products instead of mittelstand’s speciality. You only need accounting once. As well as HR. The Mittelstand must be very highly specialized to be untouched by global mega corporations. There is also no life-work balance in the process when working with mega corporation. It will squeeze the resources out of Mittelstand just by the size difference. The Mittelstand I work for is already lost with all the EU paperwork providing reach, rohs, sustainability and battery Verordnung documents to the customers.