One reason may be Mr Kamps's star status, which was once a big help.

ECONOMIST: German business

The company's chairman and chief executive, Heiner Kamps, has been lauded as one of a new breed.

ECONOMIST: German business

Acquisitions have turned Kamps into not only Germany's biggest baker, but Europe's.

ECONOMIST: German business

Having set a cracking pace, Kamps is still on a roll: profits and sales were on course in the first nine months of the year.

ECONOMIST: German business

Mr Kamps argues that nobody else in Europe's fragmented baking industry could repeat his strategy: although his firm accounts for only a fraction of the market, it is four times the size of the next biggest.

ECONOMIST: German business

Written by John Kamps ("Zathura") and David Koepp ("Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull") and directed by Koepp, "Ghost Town" is a light comedy about a misanthropic dentist, Bertram Pincus, who develops an unwelcome sixth sense after losing his vital signs for several minutes during a routine colonoscopy.

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