Don't miss it: the summer issue of MASTERS

The summer issue of MASTERS is available from this week and is once again full of inspiring stories and in-depth interviews. This includes boxer and entrepreneur Rico Verhoeven, tennis icon Richard Krajicek and top entrepreneur Robbert Jan Dekker. In this issue, MASTERS focuses on family businesses, sports and entrepreneurship. MASTERS also delves into […]

The summer issue of M is available from this week and is again full of inspiring stories and in-depth interviews. This includes boxer and entrepreneur Rico Verhoeven, tennis icon Richard Krajicek and top entrepreneur Robbert Jan Dekker. In this issue, MASTERS focuses on family businesses, sports and entrepreneurship. MASTERS will also delve again into the most beautiful travels and gastronomy at the highest level and the campaign image of MASTERS EXPO in November will be unveiled, so don't miss it.Online editor: Patrick Stoffer
Text: Bart-Jan Brouwer

Family matters

The summer issue of MASTERS focuses on timber giant Koninklijke Dekker, which generated a turnover of 100 million euros last year, in the new Focus on Family Businesses section. Photo: John van Helvert

Historic victory

Also new is Masters of Sport: for the first episode, sports journalist Jaap de Groot visits tennis icon Richard Krajicek 25 years after his historic victory at Wimbledon. Photo: John van Helvert

Get to work

In the same year, 1996, Marcel Wanders made his definitive breakthrough Knotted Chair. “I come from a culture where everything always had to be changed. Modernism was the prevalent way to go, the past was irrelevant. I was ready to change the world and screw everything up,” he says in a candid interview.

Even more entrepreneurs have their say. Margo Reuten from restaurant Da Vinci explains how she deals with setbacks. “I am now even more combative, the lioness comes out in me: get to work!“As a novice entrepreneur, Merel van Helsdingen was immediately thrown into the deep end: she opened her Nxt Museum during corona times.

Rico Verhoeven

And Rico Verhoeven launched a vacancy platform to help people who have lost their jobs due to the crisis. Each and every one of them is an entrepreneur whose glass is half full. That positive radiates from The Forward Edition of MASTERS. Don't miss it!Photo: Karoly Effenberger