Josef Recheis
| Josef Recheis egg pasta factory and Walzmühle GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | 1889 |
| Seat | Hall in Tirol |
| management | Stefan Recheis, Martin Terzer |
| Number of employees | about 110 |
| Branch | Food and luxury food industry |
| Website | Recheis.at |
Josef Recheis is a family-owned Austrian food company based at Fassergasse 8-10 in Hall in Tirol . Recheis employs almost 110 people, and up to 110 tons of pasta are produced every day. With a market share of almost 32%, Recheis is the market leader for pasta in Austria. The company is now in the 5th generation of Stefan Recheis. The registered name is Josef Recheis Eierteigwarenfabrik und Walzmühle GmbH .
history
Josef Recheis (1846–1926), who was born in Thaur in 1846 , joined the then Fischlermühle in Absam as a miller's apprentice at the age of fourteen . In 1873, at the age of 27, Josef Recheis acquired the semolina mill in Hall in Tirol, which was for sale. Business was so good that just ten years later he acquired the property including the building in Fassergasse in Hall and built Austria's first pasta factory on it in 1889. In doing so, he laid the foundation for a remarkable success story.
The biggest challenge for the Tyrolean entrepreneur was the question of how to get skeptical and tradition-conscious housewives to use machine-made egg pasta. There was already pasta of perfect quality on the market that was imported from Italy. The more stable climatic conditions in Italy offered the Italian industry significant advantages, which the Austrian industry had nothing to counter due to the bad weather conditions in Tyrol. Since there were no drying systems yet, the pasta was dried in the air and the strong weather changes, which are not unusual in Tyrol, sometimes degraded the entire production to second-class goods. Josef Recheis studied the Italian climatic conditions and tried to create similar conditions in his company. Together with his employees, he constructed drying systems that were ultimately technically improved to such an extent that they could still be used today. This paved the way for the high-quality Recheis pasta to be introduced nationwide on the Austrian market and to make it known and popular.
Recheis was the market leader in Austria even before the First World War. Awards such as the “Great Prize of Honor Venice 1894” and the “Most High Award of the Exhibition for Army Food and Nutrition” in Vienna in 1894 speak for the market reputation and development work of Recheis. His customers included not only the nobility, but also the imperial court, and in 1917 he was finally appointed purveyor to the imperial court .
The outbreak of the First World War and the collapse of the monarchy brought difficult times for the company. Between 1918 and 1920 the company had to be shut down completely. However, the company was able to consolidate its market position again in the course of the interwar years and received another award ("The Golden Medal of the Reichsverband der Gastgewerblichen Cooperative Associations of Austria 1932"). The founder Josef Recheis died in 1926 and was buried in Hall in Tirol. He was succeeded by his son Richard, then his son Kurt Recheis.
The Second World War was another blow for the company. The distribution channels and production relationships developed up to then had to be severely restricted, and in 1940 the production of egg pasta was officially prohibited. Due to the rationing of raw materials during the Second World War and also during the first post-war years, the company lost important market shares, especially its eastern markets.
Nevertheless, the company was able to slowly recover in the course of the post-war years. In 1950 the production of egg pasta with fresh eggs began. In 1962 the “Recheis Goldmarke” product line was introduced. Under the leadership of Klaus Recheis, the son of Kurt Recheis, the location in Hall was completely modernized in the mid-1980s. The newly designed production line was able to start operation in mid-1988. In the course of the 1990s, modernization continued: by 1992, all packaging and raw material facilities were replaced by modern high-performance systems, and from 1992–1993 the first fully automatic, computer-controlled high - bay warehouse with space for over 5000 euro pallets was built. Due to the company's growth, the three existing production lines were supplemented by another in 1995. In the last construction phase, a new warehouse building (a second fully automated, computer-controlled high-bay warehouse) and an own office building were built. The modernization made it possible to double the pasta production between 1987 and 1997.
On June 24, 2004, Recheis put its new, modern fresh produce factory in Hall into operation. The core competence of the freshness plant is the production of frozen and fresh pasta such as ravioli , tortelloni and Schlutzkrapfen . In September 2004 Recheis took over Fetz Pizza & Pasta VertriebsGmbH , based in Hard, Vorarlberg .
In August 2012, Recheis put a new, more than 1000 m² photovoltaic system into operation on the roof of the main plant in Hall and has been feeding around 175,000 kWh / year into the public grid since then. Today Recheis employs almost 110 people, up to 110 tons of pasta are produced every day and shipped throughout Austria. With almost 32%, Recheis is the market leader in the Austrian pasta business. The company is now run in the 5th generation by Stefan Recheis, the son of Klaus Recheis.
Products
The pasta range from Recheis in the food retail sector comprises 7 large product groups.
The Recheis gold brand is the largest and best-known group in Austria with over 30 varieties. It was introduced in the grocery trade in 1962 and is constantly being expanded and further developed.
In addition to traditional food retailing, the Recheis company also supplies Austrian gastronomy. For these customers, Recheis produces both dry pasta according to the requirements of the catering industry, as well as frozen and filled pasta.
The third mainstay of Recheis is the development and production of special pasta for the food processing industry.
Individual evidence
- ^ History 1846 - 1920. Recheis Teigwaren GmbH, archived from the original on January 15, 2013 ; Retrieved October 3, 2015 .
- ^ History 1920 - 1987. Recheis Teigwaren GmbH, archived from the original on January 15, 2013 ; Retrieved October 3, 2015 .
- ↑ 1987 - 2002. Recheis Teigwaren GmbH, archived from the original on January 14, 2013 ; Retrieved October 3, 2015 .
- ↑ Michael Riedler: Recheis swallows pizza sales. WirtschaftsBlatt , September 23, 2004, archived from the original on October 4, 2015 ; accessed on November 12, 2009 : “After the opening of a second Recheis factory in Hall in Tirol in June, the family business Recheis is expanding again: With the takeover of the Fetz activities in September, a sales volume of four million euros is added to the business of the Tyrolean pasta manufacturer . "
- ↑ Recheis Today. Recheis Teigwaren GmbH, archived from the original on January 14, 2013 ; Retrieved October 3, 2015 .
- ↑ Ursula Rischanek: Recheis launches new organic brand. WirtschaftsBlatt, September 15, 2008, archived from the original on October 4, 2015 ; Retrieved November 12, 2009 .
- ↑ Our range . In: recheis.com . Archived from the original on February 1, 2013. Retrieved October 3, 2015.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 16 ′ 54.1 ″ N , 11 ° 30 ′ 7 ″ E