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Gaining Resilience: How we navigate external influences

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Gaining Resilience: How we navigate external influences

At NKG, we are no strangers to navigating complexity – whether it is adapting to regulations like EUDR or responding to broader global events like climate change. While it is easy to feel overwhelmed by the weight of these challenges, we are also uniquely positioned to grow stronger together. Resilience is not just about weathering the storm; it’s about building the capacity to thrive despite uncertainty.

In this issue of the INSIDE NKG MAG, we will explore how NKG is addressing the external influences we face today. Offering insights into important topics in our shared professional context, we aim to keep you, our employees, well-informed and confident in our support.

What are we all dealing with at the moment?

From stricter environmental and sustainability regulations – and there are quite a lot of them – to growing customer demands for transparency and accountability: the external pressures can feel daunting. By working together as a group and leaning on the strength of our network, we are not just meeting the moment – we are shaping a future of shared success.

What does this mean for us at NKG?

As a global group with local presence in many coffee-growing and trading regions, these issues bring both risks and opportunities. On the one hand, they require us to rethink the way we work and adjust to new realities. On the other, they underscore the strength of our diversity and interconnectedness. Each group company contributes its distinct knowledge, enabling us to solve issues that no entity could manage alone.

What are we currently working on in our daily work life?

A major focus right now is setting NKG up for the future. But what is it that makes us truly resilient in the ever-evolving coffee world around us? It is not just about establishing processes, implementing structures, or advancing technical developments – although these are undeniably important. What also needs to be an integral part is a strong commitment to creating a culture of care and trust, empowering NKG employees to focus on their roles and enable them to fill it the best way possible.

Here, we explore how our approach combines technical innovation with a focus on people and culture at NKG. Learn more from the article Changes for a strong future: Aligning our strategic approach, organizational structure and cultural transformation, which highlights how we plan to do exactly this: We set us at NKG up for a successful future through enhancing our organizational structure and transferring authority to the different regions. At the same time, we focus on each individual through developing the way we view our employees – you can also find out more on this cultural change from Human Resources to People in the article. An update on how we put these topics into practice and which kinds of solutions we are working on can be found in Diverse projects, one goal: The new global NKG Digital Ecosystem. Additionally, dive into guest articles from Ibero Uganda and IAC Europe, where Annet Kawuki and Katharina Wilhelm share their perspectives on current developments. The article on NKG Indonesia Imports by Mira Yudhawati showcases modern premises and introduces the team working on innovative solutions for all kinds of customer requests in the current and future coffee market. Moreover, we have covered the external perspective from Organizations, who explain why working together in various interest groups along the supply chain is crucial in fast-paced times and for complex challenges in our Three by Three Questions. And, of course, there is a very fun quiz with an especially exciting opportunity to win!

Through understanding the context we are working in and crafting collective ways of dealing with it, we are proving that resilience is at the heart of NKG’s mission. Dive into this issue to discover how we are meeting the moment and what it means for you as part of our global team.

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Changes for a strong future: Aligning our strategic approach, organizational structure and cultural transformation

In the past years, we have seen a lot of changes in the world around us, not just directly in coffee – and that has changed the challenges and contents of our work. While before, the tone at NKG has been to go ahead and keep on doing what we do in the best way we can – and grow from year to year -, we now see ourselves confronted with a much more complex reality: doing a great job buying, milling and selling and moving coffee is not enough anymore. At NKG, we have already worked on this intensively and adapted to these fast-paced times in many ways. But still: We need to further integrate the context and changes we experience in our strategic as well as very practical approach, reflect upon it in our organizational structure, the people leading the way and the culture we live at NKG. This is key to make sure that we will continue to be the successful number one in the world’s coffee trade in the future.

Diverse projects, one goal: The new global NKG Digital Ecosystem

We all live in a digital world. From buying clothes online, to checking in real time which street the delivery person is on, to paying for services with ours phones while knowing the exact balance of our accounts, we have become accustomed to interacting in a digital world. It helps us get the things we want faster and obtain important information easily.

Interview with Melyne Achieng

For the past two years, Regional Responsible Business Program Manager Melyne has been on an – for her – unexpected journey in the coffee world. “Although I was open to the agriculture sector, I never imagined working in coffee until I joined NKG,” she says. Her passion for coffee started during the interview process, sparked by an introduction to various grades of green coffee.

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