Huber Tricot
| Huber Holding AG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1908 |
| Seat | Götzis , Austria |
| management | Robert Ng (since 04/2017) |
| Number of employees | 900 (2019) 450 of them in Austria |
| sales | 141 million (2019) |
| Branch | Textile and clothing industry |
| Website | Huber Tricot |
Huber Tricot is an Austrian lingerie manufacturer in Götzis in Vorarlberg .
history
In 1908 Josef Huber bought the "Heinzle'sche Tricotwaaren-Fabric" in Götzis and started production as a family business.
During the First World War, Huber produced underwear for the army and missing cotton was replaced with paper fabric. After the war, the production of fashionable underwear could be continued, and in 1930 the first branch was founded in Vienna's textile district. By the beginning of the Second World War, the company grew to 680 employees, after which it had to switch back to military production.
After 1945, Huber's sons Hubert, Otto and Armin rebuilt the company, and by 1951, 620 employees were again working at Huber. Huber was a licensee of the US men's underwear manufacturer Jockey as early as 1954 . In order to escape the labor shortage, production facilities were specifically built in economically weak areas of Lower Austria.
From 1963 to 1967 the company set up an additional textile finishing plant in Mäder with an area of 4000 m², which made Huber a fully integrated production company with knitting, dyeing, finishing, cutting and packaging.
By 1975, the entire machine park was modernized, making it one of the most modern in Europe, and by the early 1980s the number of employees could be increased to around 2500. The internationalization of the markets with inexpensive imports from abroad in the 1990s caused the sales figures to collapse, and the operations in Hollabrunn , Laa an der Thaya and Haugsdorf had to be closed. The high wage costs in Austria made it necessary to relocate abroad, and so operations were created in Hungary, Portugal and Bulgaria.
In 1991 Huber bought the traditional Swiss lingerie manufacturer Hanro . In 2005 the Sino-Australian "Benger Brands Ltd." as a strategic partner.
In April 2006, Huber von Palmers took over the Gazelle sales outlets in Austria and converted them into Huber shops . In 2007 Huber also joined Wolff (laundry) and has been producing in Hard since then . Huber Tricot was together with Skiny, Jockey (license), Hanro, Hom and Arula-Textile Solution a company of Huber Holding AG. In 2007 the group employed around 1000 people and achieved sales of 105 million euros.
In 2008 the company celebrated its 100th anniversary and opened a flagship store in Götzis in March . In October 2005, “Benger Brands Ltd.” took over 24 percent and in 2009 another 26 percent of the company.
Martin Ziegler has been a member of the board of directors of Huber-Holding since May 2015 - the trade manager was, among other things, boss at Palmers and the Dutch laundry group Hunkemöller . In 2015, the company generated sales of 131.5 million euros, 23 percent more than in the previous year, and the group employs 1,316 people, 683 of them in Austria.
Huber Holding is wholly owned by the Chinese “Benger Brands Ltd.” and since April 2017 the Malaysian-Chinese textile industrialist Robert Ng has been the new CEO. The Huber Group has 63 of its own Huber shop branches in Austria. In May 2020, restructuring proceedings had to be initiated for four of the eight companies in the Huber Group (Huber Holding AG, Arula GmbH, Huber-Shop GmbH, Huber Tricot GesmbH).
Awards
- In 1983 the company Josef Huber's Erben (founding company of today's Huber Holding AG) was awarded the Austrian coat of arms for services to the Austrian economy.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Linen manufacturer Huber before insolvency on ORF from May 29, 2020 accessed on May 29, 2020
- ↑ Huber Holding merges Vorarlberg locations and cuts jobs (February 25, 2008)
- ↑ Huber buys Wolff production (February 12, 2007)
- ↑ Huber Holding AG ( Memento of the original dated February 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 100 years of HUBER
- ↑ HUBER opens flagship store in Götzis: Trendy shop design, international top brands and underwear highlights from the last 100 years March 14, 2008
- ↑ Zieger new CEO at Vorarlberger Huber Holding (April 20, 2015)
- ↑ Huber Holding on the upswing again in 2015 (June 24, 2016)
- ↑ Chinese investors on a shopping spree in Europe (March 1, 2018)
- ↑ Malaysian industrialist becomes Huber boss (April 5, 2017)
- ↑ Major insolvency of the laundry group Huber Holding - 31 million euros in debt (May 28, 2020)
- ↑ 545 affected employees | Huber-Holding: restructuring process has started (May 29, 2020)
