Meet my new best friends, 12 life-size marzipan figures, representing famous Lübeck residents, from Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen to Thomas Mann. Of course, in the center is Johann Georg Niederegger, founder of J.G. Niederegger GmbH & Co., KG, the famed manufacturers of premium marzipan products based in Lubeck. By the way, that’s me on the far right.
Pionir’s
president and this year’s 2010 European Candy Kettle Club recipient, Miroljub
Aleksic, has set his sights on making the company the largest confectioner in
the Balkans.