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The TUC has meanwhile urged the government to follow Germany's example in manufacturing and do more for apprentices and so-called mittelstand – medium-sized companiesfirms.

Airbus promises 600 new UK jobs 2012

Wirthwein is a midsized company -- what Germans call the mittelstand, and they say they've found a way to beat the crisis.

CNN Transcript Sep 8, 2009 2009

Analysts say the increased competition is unlikely to affect big German companies, such as Siemens AG, and will instead hit hardest at machinery makers in the mittelstand , the thousands of small and midsize businesses at the backbone of Germany's export economy.

China Blunts Germany's Edge Mary M. Lane 2011

LfA loans are granted to mittelstand companies – small and medium-sized firms – through their regular lenders.

How Bavaria became a European silicon valley 2011

ULF SAUERWALD, WIRTHWEIN NAUEN (through translator): "The mittelstand must become even more active and even more versatile," the manager says.

CNN Transcript Sep 8, 2009 2009

Germany's mittelstand has been hit exceptionally hard by the crisis.

CNN Transcript Sep 8, 2009 2009

Which raises the very real question whether the mittelstand can survive.

CNN Transcript Sep 8, 2009 2009

This recovery is spread widely because every German town seems to have its periphery populated by the famed "mittelstand" of small and not-so-small companies, exporting countless unglamorous but profitable products.

BBC News - Home 2011

At the same time, some of the latest cutting-edge renewable technologies are being developed by small German mittelstand engineering companies.

The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

mittelstand—Mid-sized and usually family-controlled German manufacturing firms that have been the backbone of the postwar export economy.

Lean Thinking James P. Womack 2003