Limmatdruck Zeiler

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Limmatdruck Zeiler AG
legal form Corporation
founding 2000
Seat Spreitenbach , Switzerland
management Thomas Neth
( Managing Director )
Frank Ohle
( Chairman of the Board of Directors )
Branch printing house
Website Limmatdruck Zeiler

The Limmatdruck Zeiler AG is a Swiss printing company based in Spreitenbach . It was created in 2000 from the merger of Limmatdruck AG, which is part of the Migros Cooperative Association (MGB) (emerged in 1977 from the Limmat cooperative founded in 1945 ) with Zeiler AG in Köniz, which has existed since 1930 . In 2011 MGB sold the company and since then it has been a subsidiary of the rlc packaging group .

Business activity

The company mainly produces food packaging and is particularly known for folding boxes. It supports all processes of the value chain from design to online management to production with the help of specially developed packaging systems. Until 1991, Limmatdruck AG also printed Migros' press products, including the Migros-Magazin weekly with a circulation of more than two million copies each, and the daily Die Tat .

history

Limmatdruck

Migros founder Gottlieb Duttweiler published Die Tat as a weekly publication from 1935 onwards for the Landesring der Independen party, which he founded , and then as a daily newspaper from 1939. It was printed in the former university print shop in Zurich , the city print shop at St. Peter's Church . However, it was soon foreseeable that their capacity would no longer be sufficient for Wir Brückenbauer and Construire , the planned German and French-language free weekly newspapers for the Migros cooperative members. In 1941, the Federation of Migros Cooperatives (MGB) therefore set up its own printing facility for all of its publications at its headquarters at Limmatstrasse 152. In 1945 it was named Genossenschaft zur Limmat and in 1951/52 moved to a larger building at Limmatplatz 4–6.

With the steadily increasing number of Migros cooperative members in the 1950s and 1960s, the circulation of Wir Brückenbauer and Construire also skyrocketed , which is why a considerable part of the print job had to be outsourced to other companies. In 1976 the machine set was converted to photo typesetting . At that time, the MGB also planned to convert the deed into a tabloid, which is why another solution was suggested. In order to enable the much larger print run and four-color printing , a new printing company , Limmatdruck AG, was set up in Spreitenbach in a short time . This started operations in April 1977. Despite the abrupt end of the act in September 1978, the printing plant remained busy.

After it was founded in 1925, Migros was confronted with delivery boycotts on the part of the food manufacturers, which is why it began producing food itself as early as 1928. In the beginning, she also had to struggle with boycotts when it came to packaging, as the manufacturers of packaging materials temporarily stopped delivering cardboard boxes. For this reason, Duttweiler founded the Sabina cooperative in Zurich in 1931 , which also offered jobs for partially disabled people. In 1968 Sabina ceded part of its production to the central packing facility in Birsfelden , which was also part of Migros , and in 1980 it became part of Limmatdruck AG. In 1991 the MGB administration decided to have Migros' press products printed in external companies in future, as the replacement of the outdated rotary printing presses was too expensive. This resulted in the dismissal of 60 employees, so in Spreitenbach only the printing of magazines and packaging material remained.

Zeiler

Zeiler AG was founded in Köniz in 1930 . The family business specialized in packaging printing and manufactured packaging for Ricola and Halter sweets, as well as boxes for Nespresso capsules, for decades . The company also gained national recognition as a long-term sponsor of the volleyball club Volley Köniz . In 2000, Zeiler AG had 180 employees and achieved annual sales of more than 40 million francs . On September 8 of the same year, Limmatdruck AG took over Zeiler AG, which continued to operate under its own name.

Together, the two companies generated annual sales of 112 million francs in 2010 with 400 employees. On July 8, 2011, MGB announced that Limmatdruck and Zeiler had been sold to rlc packaging group with retroactive effect from July 1 . The reason given by the MGB was that packaging printing was no longer one of Migros' core tasks. MGB and rlc agreed not to disclose the sales price. As a result, both Limmatdruck and Zeiler were affected by job cuts, caused by the overvaluation of the Swiss franc and overcapacities in the industry. In December 2018, the management of the rlc packaging group decided to give up production in Köniz entirely and to lay off most of the workforce.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Limmatdruck Zeiler AG. Commercial register of the Canton of Aargau, accessed on November 9, 2019 .
  2. ^ Alfred A. Häsler : The Migros Adventure. The 60 year old idea . Ed .: Federation of Migros Cooperatives. Migros Presse, Zurich 1985, p. 134 .
  3. ^ Häsler: The Migros Adventure. P. 310.
  4. ^ Häsler: The Migros Adventure. Pp. 134-135.
  5. ^ Häsler: The Migros Adventure. P. 346.
  6. ↑ A very strong idea. Migros Magazine , January 22, 2018, accessed on November 9, 2019 .
  7. ^ Häsler: The Migros Adventure. P. 298.
  8. ^ Migros -Genossenschafts-Bund (Ed.): Chronicle of Migros 1925–2012 - Portrait of a dynamic company . Zurich 2013, p. 74 ( docplayer.org ).
  9. ↑ a b No more table boxes printed in Köniz. Swiss Radio and Television , December 5, 2018, accessed on November 9, 2019 .
  10. ^ Chronicle of Migros 1925–2012. P. 93.
  11. ↑ RLC Packaging Group takes over Limmatdruck AG / Zeiler AG. (100 kB) Federation of Migros Cooperatives, July 8, 2011, accessed on November 9, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Florian Niedermann: Strong franc: Even the thirteenth of the packaging manufacturers are in danger. Badener Tagblatt , April 29, 2015, accessed on November 9, 2019 .