Julius Kiennast

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Julius Kiennast

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legal form Company with limited liability
founding 1585 (in family ownership since 1710)
Seat Gars am Kamp , Lower Austria
management Alexander Kiennast,

Julius Kiennast

Number of employees 336 (2019)
sales 99.3 million euros (2019)
Branch Grocery wholesale and department store
Website www.kiennast.at

The trading house Julius Kiennast is a group of companies located in Lower Austria , which is active in the areas of food retail and wholesale ( Nah & Frisch ), in deliveries to restaurants and in Austria-wide delivery of petrol station shops and kiosks of prisons. In addition, a department store with the Food Nah & Frisch divisions, a tobacco shop with POST partner shop, a fashion department and a SHELL service station are operated in the main store in Gars am Kamp. The company has a history of more than 430 years and is therefore one of the oldest still active trading houses in Austria .

history

A shop at the company's headquarters in Gars am Kamp was mentioned in a document as early as 1585, and in 1710 Mathias Kiennast took over the shop by marriage. 1910 was a gasoline - pump built, fuel supplier since 1925, Shell . From 1956 on, the wholesale business for the merchants' organization A&O was taken over, which later also operated as Nah & Frisch . In the mid-1990s, the Lower Austrian warehouses ( RWA ) began supplying fresh goods and dry goods. With the restructuring that took place in 1998, the current form of the group of companies emerged. The anniversary celebration held in 2010 was entitled: 300 years of the Kiennast company with the tradition of 430 years of trading . We have been cooperating with Eurogast , an association of Austrian catering wholesalers, since the beginning of 2011.

In 2016, Kiennast strengthened the future of Ignaz Pilz & Söhne GmbH as a strategic partner and took over the majority in the company.

today

The current company structure consists of the companies Julius Kiennast Lebensmittelgroßhandel GmbH, Pilz & Kiennast Handels GmbH, Julius Kiennast Retail GmbH, Kiennast Holding GmbH and Julius Kiennast eU

The trading house has four sales lines. The first line of business is wholesale for more than 200 local supply stores, including Nah & Frisch (65 outlets) and Lagerhaus (10 locations). As a partner of Eurogast, the second distribution channel looks after around 2,000 restaurants, hotels, large kitchens and catering companies. The third sales driver is the delivery of 250 petrol station shops via Shop Top Service , 30 of which are shops with the local supplier concept "Nah & Frischpunkt". The fourth part of the company is a department store in Gars am Kamp, with the Nah & Frisch supermarket, fashion department, tobacconist with postpartnershop and a SHELL petrol station integrated. In 2019, 336 employees achieved sales of around 99.3 million euros.

Participations: Shares are held in Shop Top Service GmbH (50% each Kiennast and Wedl), 16.67% in ZEV "Nah & Frisch" Marketingservice GmbH, 51% Pilz & Kiennast, 33.3% ÖGS and 8.33% in Eurogast Austria GmbH. Kiennast is also a member of MARKANT Austria .

Councilor of Commerce Julius Kiennast has been chairman of the Federal Food Trade Committee of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce since 2010 .

literature

  • Peter Voithofer, Ernst Gittenberger (ed.): The Austrian trade 2005: data-fact-analyzes . Frankfurt / Main 2006, ISBN 978-3-631-55173-8

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New record year for Kiennast (CASH food newspaper from January 15, 2019, accessed on January 18, 2019)
  2. ↑ Kiennast strengthens Eurogast (HGVPRaxis magazine for Austrian hotel business from June 16, 2010, accessed on September 5, 2011)
  3. ↑ Information according to company homepage (website Kiennast - Company - History, accessed on August 26, 2011)
  4. ↑ 300 years of Kiennast  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (The "Handelszeitung" from May 6, 2010, accessed on September 5, 2011)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.handelszeitung.at  
  5. ↑ Kiennast. Plus with organic and cheap line ( Memento from February 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (The "Wirtschaftsblatt" from January 24, 2011, accessed on September 5, 2011)
  6. ↑ a b Stefan Pirker: 100 million euros annual turnover within easy reach. In: Cash Online from January 20, 2020. Cash Handelsmagazin, January 20, 2019, accessed on January 20, 2020 .