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From her office in Sendlinger Strasse, she now controls the daily destiny of her nine-member team, which consists exclusively of women, with a keen eye towards fresh communication trends. “The fact that we are all-female has to do with the positioning of my agency; a professional education in the field of nutrition science or food technology is a basic requirement and here the number of female graduates is extremely high. People should not necessarily see it as a deliberate statement,” says the agency owner, who, in addition to the grades, also pays particular attention to the practical experience of her applicants during job interviews. “For example, if someone has worked in restaurants before, I know that they are usually quite stress resistant, can change their arrangements quickly if necessary and enjoy working with people,” Sandra Ganzenmüller is convinced.

At home in the world of taste

All of her employees are either graduate ecotrophologists, like the head of the agency herself, or have a Master’s degree in nutritional science and food technology. They also have extensive experience and expertise in the areas of communication, editing, social media and PR. This mix of technical know-how and many special qualifications ensures that her communications agency can offer a comprehensive portfolio of PR measures in the food, beverages and lifestyle sectors.

“Our customer base is extensive, and we have been working successfully with many of them for longer than ten years,” the experienced beer sommelier from Freising explains. She first worked in production and quality assurance at a large organic bakery after completing her studies. Good PR means intensive “relationship management at the highest level”, is Ganzenmüller’s secret recipe.

Weihenstephan as a global seal of quality

In her varied range of activities, one of her most important references is that she has TUM Alumna status as a “Weihenstephan graduate”, which has very often helped her in the different professional sectors she operates in. “Even now I still notice that ‘Weihenstephan’ is a key word helps me every time. No matter whether visiting a brewery or a dairy somewhere in the world, “When I say there that I’m from Weihenstephan and studied at TUM, every door is opened for me immediately”, something the agency manager is happy about.

“I can strongly advise anyone who is interested in working in this area to be sure to go to TUM and to the campus Weihenstephan to study,” she says. During her own time as a student, for example, Sandra Ganzenmüller “very quickly gained extremely important industry contacts to this worldwide brewer network”, from which she still benefits enormously today as a press spokeswoman for the beer sommeliers.

A special liking for bread and beer

But the PR specialist not only deals regularly with what Germans refer to as ‘liquid gold’, but also with ‘baked gold’. As one of the first German bread sommeliers, she is constantly looking for new quality strategies for what is perhaps the most German food of all. A number of excellent industry contacts, which she has purposefully built up over the past twenty-three years of her career, also help her here. Sandra Ganzenmüller not only has exactly the right taste for the individual food, but also for the respective industry.