Pöttinger agricultural technology
| PÖTTINGER Landtechnik GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1871 |
| Seat |
Grieskirchen , Austria
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| Number of employees | 1775 (FY 2017/18) |
| sales | 354 million euros (FY 2017/18) |
| Branch | Agricultural engineering |
| Website | www.poettinger.at |
The Pöttinger agricultural technology GmbH is since 1871 in the agricultural technology , private company from Grieskirchen in Upper Austria . The company had 1775 employees (2017/2018) and an annual turnover of 354 million euros.
history
Since the company was founded in 1871, the family business has developed into one of the leading manufacturers of agricultural machinery in Europe. The company was headed by the fourth generation from 1991 to 2016 by Heinz Pöttinger and Klaus Pöttinger. Klaus Pöttinger retired from operational management in 2016. At the beginning of 2018, Heinz Pöttinger moved to the company's supervisory board. The company is currently managed by a five-person management team: Jörg Lechner (production, purchasing), Wolfgang Moser (finance, corporate quality), Herbert Wagner, Markus Baldinger (research, development, digitization) and Gregor Dietachmayr (sales, marketing, service; Management spokesman).
In the early days of the company, the forage cutting machine made work in agriculture easier. This was followed by a number of new devices, such as mills, presses, choppers, hay loaders and mowers . In the 1960s, the Pöttinger hay rake, a milestone in slope mechanization, was manufactured as part of large-scale production. In 1963 the loader wagon was added as a haymaking device that is now mandatory. Pöttinger became the largest manufacturer of forage wagons. The Bavarian plow factory was taken over in 1975 by the Stumm brothers in Landsberg am Lech in Upper Bavaria . These were close to bankruptcy. Other branch plants exist in Bernburg , where in 2001 the seed drill technology plant of the company Rabe Agri was acquired and Vodňany in the Czech Republic.
At the turn of the millennium, forage harvesting machines, semi-mounted plows, wrapping machines and round balers completed the range. In a rational comparison, the self-loading wagon system can hold its own against the philosophy of the self-propelled forage harvester. The export quota in 2012/2013 was 84% of the manufactured products. The domestic Austrian market had a sales share of 16%. Pöttinger achieved the largest increases in Germany, France, Austria, Italy, Poland and Switzerland. The tillage division contributed 23% and the grassland 66% to the company's turnover of 282 million euros.
Products
| Grassland | Tillage |
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| Disc mower | Plows |
| Drum mower | Rotary harrows |
| Tedders | Cultivator |
| Windrower | Seed drills |
| Loading wagons | Scheibeggen |
| Forage wagons | |
| Round balers | |
| Corn and forage harvester |
Production locations in Germany
- Grieskirchen, Upper Austria - grassland technology
Production sites abroad
- Germany:
- Bernburg - sowing technology
- Czech Republic:
- Vodňany - tillage
Sales and employee development
| Fiscal year | Turnover (euro) | Employee |
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| 2001/2002 | 113.8 million | 885 |
| 2002/2003 | 123.5 million | 928 |
| 2003/2004 | 127.5 million | 930 |
| 2004/2005 | 155.4 million | 926 |
| 2005/2006 | 171.1 million | 986 |
| 2006/2007 | 198.9 million | 1003 |
| 2007/2008 | 240.1 million | 1103 |
| 2008/2009 | 223.7 million | 1197 |
| 2009/2010 | 182.0 million | 1144 |
| 2010/2011 | 236.0 million | 1270 |
| 2011/2012 | 282.0 million | 1370 |
| 2012/2013 | 303.0 million | 1475 |
| 2013/2014 | 314.0 million | 1575 |
| 2014/2015 | 320.3 million | 1652 |
| 2015/2016 | 301.0 million | 1716 |
| 2016/2017 | 308.1 million | 1700 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d poettinger.at: company portrait, facts and figures. In: www.poettinger.at. Retrieved July 1, 2017 .