Customers toast to 85th anniversary
30 May 2016This location was chosen, among other things, for its excellent accessibility.
The ‘customer day’ also turned out to be a huge success, with a high participation rate (some 200 customers/business contacts from all over the Netherlands and Belgium), and, on top of that, beautiful weather all day. Do you know what all those customers are saying about us (Emma employees)? That ‘we’ make fantastic shoes and boots! Just so you all know. After the celebration at Brikke Oave, Tom Hermans, the General Manager of our company, said: “Emma's anniversary was a huge success. For two days, everything was just perfect.”
Even the municipal authorities of Brunssum and Meerssen (Bunde = municipality of Meerssen) came to congratulate Emma. Left to right: Luc Winants (Mayor of Brunssum), Tom Hermans (Emma), Mirjam Clermonts-Aretz (Mayor of Meerssen) and Carolus de Rijck (Alderman of Brunssum).
(photographer all photographs Frits Widdershoven)
Some 200 customers and business contacts from all over the Netherlands and Belgium came to raise their glasses to ‘85 years of Emma’.
Roger Köke (DSM, Safety Department) received the first copy of the publication ‘85 jaar Emma’ ('85 years of Emma') from Tom Hermans. DSM owned Emma for many years. Roger Köke added: “DSM Netherlands employees wear Emma safety shoes.”
Do you know this Famous Dutchman? It is astronaut dr. André Kuipers! He completed two space flights (of 11 days and 193 days). On Emma's anniversary/customer day, he told a fascinating story about (among other things) safety and sustainability, issues that are at the top of Emma's agenda.