Klaus Kroschke Holding
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1995 |
| Seat | Braunschweig |
| Number of employees | 430 (2012) |
| sales | 110 million euros (2012) |
| Branch | Labels and occupational safety |
| Website | www.kroschke.com |
The group of companies of Klaus Kroschke Holding GmbH & Co. KG , based in Braunschweig, is a manufacturer and dealer of products that are used for labeling and safety in the workplace. In the 2012 financial year it employed 430 people and achieved total sales of around 110 million euros.
The group consists of the companies Kroschke sign-international GmbH (Germany), Kroschke Ges.mbH (Austria), American Permalight Inc. (USA), Hein Industrieschilder GmbH , Labelident GmbH and sign point GmbH .
history
In 1957 Martin and Elfriede Kroschke opened their first auto sign shop in Braunschweig . The car signs were accepted and sold by Elfriede Kroschke from a VW Beetle near the registration office . After ordering by phone, her husband Martin made the plastic signs in the 20 square meter basement of their house . Then he mounted it on the customer's car.
In 1962 the couple opened their first shop . In 1969 the son Klaus Kroschke joined his parents' company, which in 1971 moved to its third location on Kroschkestrasse . In 1974 his brother Christoph followed him.
Klaus Kroschke specialized in the expansion of activities in the business fields of traffic and work safety signs, advertising screen printing as well as engraved and embossed signs. Christoph Kroschke expanded the branch business and opened branches in Essen , Stuttgart and Dortmund . In 1987, 100 branches were coordinated from Braunschweig.
In 1991 the Kroschke sign-international GmbH was founded and in 1992 it was divided into the two business areas of car signs and work safety signs.
In 1993, Klaus and Christoph Kroschke founded the Kroschke Foundation for Children , which supports pilot projects for children with heart disease, blind and visually impaired children and their families.
In 1994 the brothers decided to split up the group of companies. The companies led by Christoph Kroschke moved to Ahrensburg in Schleswig-Holstein in 1995 under the umbrella of Christoph Kroschke Holding GmbH & Co. KG . Klaus Kroschke stayed with Klaus Kroschke Holding GmbH & Co. KG in Braunschweig and has since focused on the areas of occupational safety and labeling .
Group companies
Kroschke sign-international GmbH
Kroschke sign-international GmbH, based in Braunschweig, is a full-range provider in the areas of labeling, operational safety and personal safety / personal protective equipment (PPE). PPE products are also sold under the “Work” brand. According to the company's own information, the range includes around 20,000 products, the main sales channels of which are catalog mail and the Internet.
The labeling products are manufactured in the company's own 3500 m² production facility with a production volume of around 35 million signs and labels per year. The production includes a screen printing plant , UV digital flatbed printing systems, flexographic printing systems, UV inkjet web printing machines and plotters . The trainees at this printing company have already won several international prizes such as the Award of Excellence in the “Unique Applications” 2012 and “Best of Show” 2013 categories at the SGIA Expo.
Kroschke sign-international GmbH also operates a warehouse and logistics center with 8800 m² as well as an in-house laboratory for material testing such as B. Weathering tests, adhesive strength or chemical resistance. Kroschke sign-international is certified according to ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 .
Kroschke Ges.mbH
In 1987 the Austrian company Austroschrift was taken over by the Kroschke Group at its Vienna location. In 1995 the company moved to Klosterneuburg near Vienna . The business area of object signage and car lettering was sold to the company Klapper. The company operating under the name Kroschke Ges.mbH has been selling safety labels, products for operational safety and personal protective equipment (PPE) since then.
American Permalight Inc.
American Permalight Inc. was founded in 1988 and is a 100% subsidiary of Klaus Kroschke Holding. Its headquarters are in Los Angeles . It was taken over together with Permalight Germany in 2002. While Permalight is run as a Kroschke brand in Germany, an independent company remained in the USA.
Permalight produces and sells photoluminescent security products based on strontium aluminate and strontium silicate luminous pigments worldwide, with a focus on Canada, the USA and Latin America. Permalight products were installed in the World Trade Center, which was destroyed in 2001, and are used in the international space station ISS .
sign point GmbH
Sign point GmbH, founded in 1995, was initially managed by Lars Kroschke, the son of Klaus Kroschke. Michael Schmiedel has been the managing director since 2017. Its seat is in Braunschweig. It was spun off from the Kroschke Group as a strategic business unit for advertising and orientation signs.
Sign point GmbH provides services in the field of signage, stamping and advertising technology.
Kroschke Children's Foundation
The Kroschke Group also supports the Kroschke Children's Foundation (formerly Kroschke Foundation for Children), a non-profit foundation that was founded in 1993 by the brothers Klaus and Christoph Kroschke on a private initiative. Since then, more than 500 projects have been funded. A sponsorship prize of € 15,000 is awarded every two years.
The focus of funding is
- child protection
- Health care
- Early help for premature and newborn babies
Web links
- Website of the Kroschke sign-international GmbH
- American Permalight Inc.
- Sign point GmbH website
- Website of the Kroschke Children's Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Consolidated financial statements for the financial year from January 1, 2012 to December 31, 2012 of Klaus Kroschke Holding GmbH & Co. KG at www.bundesanzeiger.de, March 25, 2014, accessed on October 10, 2014.
- ↑ Vita: The ice cream seller and manager of license plates , handelsblatt.com, April 12, 2008, accessed on April 8, 2014.
- ↑ corporate history , kroschke.com, accessed on April 8, 2014.
- ↑ Via Work , Work brand website, accessed October 10, 2014.
- ↑ Production , website of Kroschke sign-international GmbH, accessed on October 10, 2014.
- ↑ Trainees awarded by Kroschke in the USA , Kroschke blog, accessed on April 8, 2014.
- ↑ ASDPT Announces Student Printing Competition Winners , website SGIA, accessed on 10 October, 2014.
- ↑ Braunschweig apprentices win in the USA ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. , “Der Siebdruck” magazine, accessed on October 10, 2014.
- ↑ Logistics and disposition and laboratory , website of Kroschke sign-international GmbH, accessed on October 10, 2014.
- ↑ Certifications ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 , website of Kroschke sign-international GmbH, accessed on October 10, 2014.
- ↑ About American Permalight , American Permalight Inc. website, accessed October 10, 2014.
- ↑ Photoluminescent Egress Path Markings , signsearch.com, accessed May 19, 2014.
- ↑ Permalight Newsletter 2/2011 , permalight.com, accessed on May 19, 2014.
- ↑ Advanced Photoluminescence Technology as an Emergency Guidance System on the International Space Station ( Memento of the original dated December 24, 2016 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. , nasa.gov, accessed May 19, 2014.
- ↑ Information on sign point GmbH , statista, accessed on October 10, 2014.
- ↑ Activity report of the Children's Foundation 2010-2012 ( Memento of the original from September 13, 2014 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. , Information on the Children's Foundation ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2013 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. and activities of the Children's Foundation ( Memento of the original from July 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the Kroschke Children's Foundation, accessed on October 10, 2014.
Coordinates: 52 ° 18 ′ 42.5 ″ N , 10 ° 30 ′ 42.4 ″ E