Pistor Holding

Pistor group of companies
legal form	cooperative
founding	1916
Seat	Rothenburg , Switzerland
management	Markus Lötscher ; ( CEO ) ; Willi Suter ; (Chairman of the Board of Directors)
Number of employees	535, thereof 468 full-time positions (as of December 31, 2018)
sales	630 million CHF (2018)
Branch	Food wholesale
Website	www.pistor.ch

The Pistor group of companies has been providing products and services for the food processing industries in Switzerland for more than 100 years and offers competent support in practically all areas such as planning, ordering, delivery and billing. The group includes the independent companies Pistor Holding Genossenschaft, Pistor AG, Proback AG and Fairtrade SA, all of which are based in Rothenburg in Lucerne .

Subsidiaries

Pistor AG

Goods handling center in Rothenburg LU (opened in 2010)

Pistor AG operates in Switzerland and is a trading company for the bakery - confectionery - confectionery and gastronomy sectors . It was founded in 1916 by bakers as a self-help organization to buy groceries and is still a cooperative. Pistor supplies the processing companies in the bakery, confectionery and gastronomy sectors throughout Switzerland with raw materials, semi-finished and finished products as well as non-food items. Pistor also offers medical consumables for care. The range includes over 18,000 chilled, unrefrigerated and frozen items and consists of branded products and a private label range.

Pistor truck in the city of Lucerne

Proback AG

Proback AG is a consulting company and 100 percent subsidiary of the Pistor Holding Cooperative. As a non-profit organization, Proback is active, among other things, in promoting market presence and providing business support for the bakery, confectionery and confectionery industries. It offers the industry services such as business mediation, support for start-ups of young companies, organization of business transfers or consultations and coaching.

Fairtrade SA

Fairtrade is a commodities trading company and a 100 percent subsidiary of the Pistor Holding Cooperative. Raw materials such as hazelnut kernels, almonds, sugar, apricots or sultanas determine everyday fair trade. Its customers include chocolate and biscuit factories, producers of semi-finished products, wholesalers, trading companies and beverage manufacturers. It offers them services such as handling contracts, organizing the transport of goods, handling customs formalities or quality control of products.

Web links

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New 40-ton electric truck picks up speed (press release Pistor AG, June 12, 2018) [1]
Good year for bakery and gastronomy partner Pistor AG (press release Pistor Holding Genossenschaft, May 3, 2018) [2]
Cooperation between Cosanum and Pistor AG (press release Pistor AG, March 13, 2018) [3]
Key figures Pistor Holding Cooperative [4]
Annual report Pistor Holding Genossenschaft 2017 [5] (PDF; 4.2 MB)
Website Pistor: About Pistor [6]

Individual evidence

↑ tagesanzeiger.ch. Retrieved October 25, 2013 .
↑ Entry in the commercial register: September 9, 1916, 6023 Rothenburg, HR number CH-100.5.011.113-6, HR Office Canton Lucerne
↑ handelszeitung.ch: Pistor increases sales in 2011. Accessed on October 25, 2013 .

[1] tagesanzeiger.ch. Retrieved October 25, 2013 .

[2] Entry in the commercial register: September 9, 1916, 6023 Rothenburg, HR number CH-100.5.011.113-6, HR Office Canton Lucerne

[3] handelszeitung.ch: Pistor increases sales in 2011. Accessed on October 25, 2013 .