diff --git a/.idea/checkstyle-idea.xml b/.idea/checkstyle-idea.xml
index 8a64c85..51ef153 100644
--- a/.idea/checkstyle-idea.xml
+++ b/.idea/checkstyle-idea.xml
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
   <component name="CheckStyle-IDEA" serialisationVersion="2">
     <checkstyleVersion>10.3.2</checkstyleVersion>
     <scanScope>JavaOnly</scanScope>
+    <option name="thirdPartyClasspath" />
+    <option name="activeLocationIds" />
     <option name="locations">
       <list>
         <ConfigurationLocation id="bundled-sun-checks" type="BUNDLED" scope="All" description="Sun Checks">(bundled)</ConfigurationLocation>
diff --git a/.idea/compiler.xml b/.idea/compiler.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5739317
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.idea/compiler.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project version="4">
+  <component name="CompilerConfiguration">
+    <annotationProcessing>
+      <profile name="Gradle Imported" enabled="true">
+        <outputRelativeToContentRoot value="true" />
+        <processorPath useClasspath="false">
+          <entry name="$USER_HOME$/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.projectlombok/lombok/1.18.28/a2ff5da8bcd8b1b26f36b806ced63213362c6dcc/lombok-1.18.28.jar" />
+          <entry name="$USER_HOME$/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.springframework.boot/spring-boot-configuration-processor/3.1.2/613d07277e91a8ed609d45f6b528809eadd1fef7/spring-boot-configuration-processor-3.1.2.jar" />
+        </processorPath>
+        <module name="car-sharing.main" />
+      </profile>
+    </annotationProcessing>
+    <bytecodeTargetLevel target="20" />
+  </component>
+</project>
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diff --git a/.idea/dataSources.xml b/.idea/dataSources.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..90b9ea7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.idea/dataSources.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project version="4">
+  <component name="DataSourceManagerImpl" format="xml" multifile-model="true">
+    <data-source source="LOCAL" name="carsharing" uuid="238a1173-0f70-4449-a518-23a7349e87ba">
+      <driver-ref>h2.unified</driver-ref>
+      <synchronize>true</synchronize>
+      <jdbc-driver>org.h2.Driver</jdbc-driver>
+      <jdbc-url>jdbc:h2:file:./src/main/resources/db/carsharing</jdbc-url>
+      <jdbc-additional-properties>
+        <property name="com.intellij.clouds.kubernetes.db.enabled" value="false" />
+      </jdbc-additional-properties>
+      <working-dir>$ProjectFileDir$</working-dir>
+    </data-source>
+  </component>
+</project>
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diff --git a/.idea/jarRepositories.xml b/.idea/jarRepositories.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fdc392f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.idea/jarRepositories.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project version="4">
+  <component name="RemoteRepositoriesConfiguration">
+    <remote-repository>
+      <option name="id" value="central" />
+      <option name="name" value="Maven Central repository" />
+      <option name="url" value="https://repo1.maven.org/maven2" />
+    </remote-repository>
+    <remote-repository>
+      <option name="id" value="jboss.community" />
+      <option name="name" value="JBoss Community repository" />
+      <option name="url" value="https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/repositories/public/" />
+    </remote-repository>
+    <remote-repository>
+      <option name="id" value="MavenRepo" />
+      <option name="name" value="MavenRepo" />
+      <option name="url" value="https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/" />
+    </remote-repository>
+  </component>
+</project>
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diff --git a/.idea/kubernetes-settings.xml b/.idea/kubernetes-settings.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8198242
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.idea/kubernetes-settings.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project version="4">
+  <component name="KubernetesSettings">
+    <option name="contextName" value="minikube" />
+  </component>
+</project>
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diff --git a/.idea/sqldialects.xml b/.idea/sqldialects.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1605aa7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.idea/sqldialects.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project version="4">
+  <component name="SqlDialectMappings">
+    <file url="PROJECT" dialect="H2" />
+  </component>
+</project>
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diff --git a/.idea/uiDesigner.xml b/.idea/uiDesigner.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2b63946
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.idea/uiDesigner.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project version="4">
+  <component name="Palette2">
+    <group name="Swing">
+      <item class="com.intellij.uiDesigner.HSpacer" tooltip-text="Horizontal Spacer" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/hspacer.svg" removable="false" auto-create-binding="false" can-attach-label="false">
+        <default-constraints vsize-policy="1" hsize-policy="6" anchor="0" fill="1" />
+      </item>
+      <item class="com.intellij.uiDesigner.VSpacer" tooltip-text="Vertical Spacer" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/vspacer.svg" removable="false" auto-create-binding="false" can-attach-label="false">
+        <default-constraints vsize-policy="6" hsize-policy="1" anchor="0" fill="2" />
+      </item>
+      <item class="javax.swing.JPanel" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/panel.svg" removable="false" auto-create-binding="false" can-attach-label="false">
+        <default-constraints vsize-policy="3" hsize-policy="3" anchor="0" fill="3" />
+      </item>
+      <item class="javax.swing.JScrollPane" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/scrollPane.svg" removable="false" auto-create-binding="false" can-attach-label="true">
+        <default-constraints vsize-policy="7" hsize-policy="7" anchor="0" fill="3" />
+      </item>
+      <item class="javax.swing.JButton" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/button.svg" removable="false" auto-create-binding="true" can-attach-label="false">
+        <default-constraints vsize-policy="0" hsize-policy="3" anchor="0" fill="1" />
+        <initial-values>
+          <property name="text" value="Button" />
+        </initial-values>
+      </item>
+      <item class="javax.swing.JRadioButton" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/radioButton.svg" removable="false" auto-create-binding="true" can-attach-label="false">
+        <default-constraints vsize-policy="0" hsize-policy="3" anchor="8" fill="0" />
+        <initial-values>
+          <property name="text" value="RadioButton" />
+        </initial-values>
+      </item>
+      <item class="javax.swing.JCheckBox" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/checkBox.svg" removable="false" auto-create-binding="true" can-attach-label="false">
+        <default-constraints vsize-policy="0" hsize-policy="3" anchor="8" fill="0" />
+        <initial-values>
+          <property name="text" value="CheckBox" />
+        </initial-values>
+      </item>
+      <item class="javax.swing.JLabel" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/label.svg" removable="false" auto-create-binding="false" can-attach-label="false">
+        <default-constraints vsize-policy="0" hsize-policy="0" anchor="8" fill="0" />
+        <initial-values>
+          <property name="text" value="Label" />
+        </initial-values>
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+      <item class="javax.swing.JTextField" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/textField.svg" removable="false" auto-create-binding="true" can-attach-label="true">
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+        <default-constraints vsize-policy="6" hsize-policy="6" anchor="0" fill="3">
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+      </item>
+      <item class="javax.swing.JEditorPane" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/editorPane.svg" removable="false" auto-create-binding="true" can-attach-label="true">
+        <default-constraints vsize-policy="6" hsize-policy="6" anchor="0" fill="3">
+          <preferred-size width="150" height="50" />
+        </default-constraints>
+      </item>
+      <item class="javax.swing.JComboBox" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/comboBox.svg" removable="false" auto-create-binding="true" can-attach-label="true">
+        <default-constraints vsize-policy="0" hsize-policy="2" anchor="8" fill="1" />
+      </item>
+      <item class="javax.swing.JTable" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/table.svg" removable="false" auto-create-binding="true" can-attach-label="false">
+        <default-constraints vsize-policy="6" hsize-policy="6" anchor="0" fill="3">
+          <preferred-size width="150" height="50" />
+        </default-constraints>
+      </item>
+      <item class="javax.swing.JList" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/list.svg" removable="false" auto-create-binding="true" can-attach-label="false">
+        <default-constraints vsize-policy="6" hsize-policy="2" anchor="0" fill="3">
+          <preferred-size width="150" height="50" />
+        </default-constraints>
+      </item>
+      <item class="javax.swing.JTree" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/tree.svg" removable="false" auto-create-binding="true" can-attach-label="false">
+        <default-constraints vsize-policy="6" hsize-policy="6" anchor="0" fill="3">
+          <preferred-size width="150" height="50" />
+        </default-constraints>
+      </item>
+      <item class="javax.swing.JTabbedPane" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/tabbedPane.svg" removable="false" auto-create-binding="true" can-attach-label="false">
+        <default-constraints vsize-policy="3" hsize-policy="3" anchor="0" fill="3">
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+      </item>
+      <item class="javax.swing.JSplitPane" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/splitPane.svg" removable="false" auto-create-binding="false" can-attach-label="false">
+        <default-constraints vsize-policy="3" hsize-policy="3" anchor="0" fill="3">
+          <preferred-size width="200" height="200" />
+        </default-constraints>
+      </item>
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+        <default-constraints vsize-policy="0" hsize-policy="6" anchor="8" fill="1" />
+      </item>
+      <item class="javax.swing.JSlider" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/slider.svg" removable="false" auto-create-binding="true" can-attach-label="false">
+        <default-constraints vsize-policy="0" hsize-policy="6" anchor="8" fill="1" />
+      </item>
+      <item class="javax.swing.JSeparator" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/separator.svg" removable="false" auto-create-binding="false" can-attach-label="false">
+        <default-constraints vsize-policy="6" hsize-policy="6" anchor="0" fill="3" />
+      </item>
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+        <default-constraints vsize-policy="0" hsize-policy="6" anchor="0" fill="1" />
+      </item>
+      <item class="javax.swing.JToolBar" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/toolbar.svg" removable="false" auto-create-binding="false" can-attach-label="false">
+        <default-constraints vsize-policy="0" hsize-policy="6" anchor="0" fill="1">
+          <preferred-size width="-1" height="20" />
+        </default-constraints>
+      </item>
+      <item class="javax.swing.JToolBar$Separator" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/toolbarSeparator.svg" removable="false" auto-create-binding="false" can-attach-label="false">
+        <default-constraints vsize-policy="0" hsize-policy="0" anchor="0" fill="1" />
+      </item>
+      <item class="javax.swing.JScrollBar" icon="/com/intellij/uiDesigner/icons/scrollbar.svg" removable="false" auto-create-binding="true" can-attach-label="false">
+        <default-constraints vsize-policy="6" hsize-policy="0" anchor="0" fill="2" />
+      </item>
+    </group>
+  </component>
+</project>
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0c6f367..988f3c4 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -33,3 +33,6 @@ Sources for all project tasks (4 stages) with tests and configurations.
 10.08.23 Stage 1 completed. Just the creation of an H2-file database with a company table. Modelled with JPA entity and 
 JPARepository and have Spring JPA to the DDL-creation. Take database-filename from program arguments and programatically
 set the `spring.datasource.url` property before running the `SpringApplication`.
+
+14.08.23 Stage 2 completed. Have command line menus provided as Spring beans (`@Controller`) and have a stdin-scanner 
+provided as bean. The CommandLineRunner uses a service to connect (query / insert) with the database vie the JPA-repository.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/cofinpro/cars/CarSharingApp.java b/src/main/java/de/cofinpro/cars/CarSharingApp.java
index 4b00206..3018021 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/cofinpro/cars/CarSharingApp.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/cofinpro/cars/CarSharingApp.java
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 package de.cofinpro.cars;
 
+import de.cofinpro.cars.controller.MenuRunner;
+import org.springframework.boot.CommandLineRunner;
 import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
 import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
 import org.springframework.util.Assert;
 
 import java.util.Properties;
@@ -19,4 +22,10 @@ public static void main(String[] args) {
         app.setDefaultProperties(properties);
         app.run(args);
     }
+
+    @Bean
+    CommandLineRunner commandLineRunner(MenuRunner menuRunner) {
+        return args -> menuRunner.run();
+    }
+
 }
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diff --git a/src/main/java/de/cofinpro/cars/controller/ManagerMenu.java b/src/main/java/de/cofinpro/cars/controller/ManagerMenu.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6421a6d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/java/de/cofinpro/cars/controller/ManagerMenu.java
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+package de.cofinpro.cars.controller;
+
+import de.cofinpro.cars.io.ConsolePrinter;
+import de.cofinpro.cars.service.CompanyService;
+import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
+
+import java.util.Scanner;
+
+@Controller
+public class ManagerMenu {
+
+    private final CompanyService companyService;
+    private final ConsolePrinter printer;
+    private final Scanner scanner;
+
+    public ManagerMenu(CompanyService companyService, ConsolePrinter printer, Scanner scanner) {
+        this.companyService = companyService;
+        this.printer = printer;
+        this.scanner = scanner;
+    }
+
+    public void run() {
+        printMenu();
+        var choice = Integer.parseInt(scanner.nextLine());
+        while (choice != 0) {
+            switch (choice) {
+                case 1 -> listCompanies();
+                case 2 -> createCompany();
+                default -> throw new IllegalStateException("invalid choice");
+            }
+            printMenu();
+            choice = Integer.parseInt(scanner.nextLine());
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void createCompany() {
+        printer.printInfo("Enter the company name:");
+        var name = scanner.nextLine();
+        companyService.createCompany(name);
+        printer.printInfo("The company was created!");
+    }
+
+    private void listCompanies() {
+        printer.printCompanyList(companyService.listCompanies());
+    }
+
+    private void printMenu() {
+        printer.printInfo("""
+                1. Company list
+                2. Create a company
+                0. Back
+                """);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/cofinpro/cars/controller/MenuRunner.java b/src/main/java/de/cofinpro/cars/controller/MenuRunner.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..000c079
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/java/de/cofinpro/cars/controller/MenuRunner.java
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+package de.cofinpro.cars.controller;
+
+import de.cofinpro.cars.io.ConsolePrinter;
+import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
+
+import java.util.Scanner;
+
+@Controller
+public class MenuRunner {
+    private final ConsolePrinter printer;
+    private final ManagerMenu managerMenu;
+    private final Scanner scanner;
+
+    public MenuRunner(ConsolePrinter printer,
+                      ManagerMenu managerMenu,
+                      Scanner stdinScanner) {
+        this.printer = printer;
+        this.managerMenu = managerMenu;
+        this.scanner = stdinScanner;
+    }
+
+    public void run() {
+        printMenu();
+        var choice = Integer.parseInt(scanner.nextLine());
+        while (choice != 0) {
+            managerMenu.run();
+            printMenu();
+            choice = Integer.parseInt(scanner.nextLine());
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void printMenu() {
+        printer.printInfo("""
+                1. Log in as a manager
+                0. Exit
+                """);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/cofinpro/cars/io/CommandLineConfiguration.java b/src/main/java/de/cofinpro/cars/io/CommandLineConfiguration.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..54a3657
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/java/de/cofinpro/cars/io/CommandLineConfiguration.java
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+package de.cofinpro.cars.io;
+
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
+
+import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
+import java.util.Scanner;
+
+/**
+ * Configuration class, offering (singleton) beans as the stdin-scanner or date-formatter.
+ */
+@Configuration
+public class CommandLineConfiguration {
+
+    @Bean
+    public Scanner getStdinScanner() {
+        return new Scanner(System.in);
+    }
+
+    @Bean
+    public DateTimeFormatter getDateFormatter() {
+        return DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy.MM.dd");
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/cofinpro/cars/io/ConsolePrinter.java b/src/main/java/de/cofinpro/cars/io/ConsolePrinter.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3658cda
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/java/de/cofinpro/cars/io/ConsolePrinter.java
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+package de.cofinpro.cars.io;
+
+import de.cofinpro.cars.persistence.Company;
+import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;
+import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
+
+import java.util.List;
+
+/**
+ * Slf4J wrapping printer class, accepting input to print to the console (stdout)
+ */
+@Slf4j
+@Component
+public class ConsolePrinter {
+
+    public void printInfo(String message) {
+        log.info(message);
+    }
+
+    public void printCompanyList(List<Company> companies) {
+        if (companies.isEmpty()) {
+            printInfo("The company list is empty!");
+        } else {
+            companies.forEach(company -> printInfo("%d. %s".formatted(company.getId(), company.getName())));
+        }
+        printInfo("");
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/cofinpro/cars/persistence/Company.java b/src/main/java/de/cofinpro/cars/persistence/Company.java
index c196d41..d3293cc 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/cofinpro/cars/persistence/Company.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/cofinpro/cars/persistence/Company.java
@@ -24,6 +24,6 @@ public class Company {
     @Column(name = "ID", columnDefinition = "INT")
     private int id;
 
-    @Column(name = "NAME", columnDefinition = "VARCHAR_IGNORECASE(255)")
+    @Column(name = "NAME", columnDefinition = "VARCHAR_IGNORECASE(255) UNIQUE NOT NULL")
     private String name;
 }
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/cofinpro/cars/service/CompanyService.java b/src/main/java/de/cofinpro/cars/service/CompanyService.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3a60893
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/java/de/cofinpro/cars/service/CompanyService.java
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+package de.cofinpro.cars.service;
+
+import de.cofinpro.cars.persistence.Company;
+import de.cofinpro.cars.persistence.CompanyRepository;
+import org.springframework.data.domain.Sort;
+import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;
+
+import java.util.List;
+
+@Service
+public class CompanyService {
+
+    private final CompanyRepository repository;
+
+    public CompanyService(CompanyRepository repository) {
+        this.repository = repository;
+    }
+
+    public List<Company> listCompanies() {
+        return repository.findAll(Sort.by(Sort.Order.asc("id")));
+    }
+
+    public void createCompany(String name) {
+        repository.save(new Company().setName(name));
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/main/resources/application.properties b/src/main/resources/application.properties
index 18466db..f462057 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/application.properties
+++ b/src/main/resources/application.properties
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 spring.datasource.driverClassName=org.h2.Driver
 
 spring.jpa.database-platform=org.hibernate.dialect.H2Dialect
-spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto=create
+spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto=update
+spring.main.banner-mode=off
+spring.main.log-startup-info=false
+logging.level.root=off
+logging.level.de.cofinpro=info
diff --git a/src/main/resources/logback-spring.xml b/src/main/resources/logback-spring.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..627bd2b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/resources/logback-spring.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<configuration>
+
+    <appender name="Console"
+              class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
+        <encoder>
+            <pattern>
+               %msg%n
+            </pattern>
+        </encoder>
+    </appender>
+
+    <!-- LOG everything at INFO level -->
+    <root level="info">
+        <appender-ref ref="Console" />
+    </root>
+
+</configuration>