Schätzle Holding
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1870 |
| Seat | Lucerne , Switzerland |
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| Number of employees | 82 (2006) |
| sales | 311.9 million CHF (2006) |
| Branch | Mineral oil trade |
| Website | www.schaetzle.ch |
The Schätzle Holding AG , based in Lucerne is in the areas of oil trading and production of building materials operating Swiss group of companies. It operates in central Switzerland around 100 AVIA - petrol stations , some with washing facilities equipped and markets along with fuel and heating oil , lubricants and specialty products. In addition, she also carries out tank inspections and tank refurbishments. The company group also includes Seekag Seeverlad + Kieshandels AG, which specializes in the production and sale of concrete , gravel , sand , gravel sand , grit and gravel . The family company, now in its fifth generation, employs 82 people and in 2006 generated sales of 312 million Swiss francs.
history
The company was founded in 1870 by Conrad Schätzle. He began his activity initially trading beers from the Basel brewery Warteck as well as foreign specialties. The beer trade, which was particularly good in summer, was supplemented by coal trade in the winter months .
In 1904 Conrad Schätzle's son Alfred Schätzle took over management of the company. He expanded the family business and converted it in 1914 from a sole proprietorship to a stock corporation with a focus on coal imports. In the same year he opened a briquette factory . In 1922, Schätzle opened a transshipment facility for gravel, hard crushed stone and other goods and founded Seekag Seeverlad + Kieshandels AG for this purpose . Shortly before the start of the Second World War , his three sons Walter, Hans and Alfred took over the family business.
In 1948, Schätzle AG joined the AVIA Association in order to counteract the displacement of coal as heating fuel by the increasingly widespread heating oil that began after the Second World War. Two years later, their first petrol station opened in Lucerne. In 1957, the company started trading in lubricants, and at the same time, Robert Schätzle, the fourth generation to join the company.
Under the management of cousins Robert and Alfred Schätzle, the business activities of both Schätzle AG and Seekag, for which a ready-mixed concrete plant was put into operation in 1974, were further expanded. The two companies were supplemented in 1978 with Schätzle-Service AG, which specializes in tank inspection and refurbishment .
Today, with Urs Schmidli, Patrick Schätzle and Alexander Hophan, three representatives of the fifth generation work in the Schätzle Group. For his part, Robert Schätzle has also been Chairman of the Board of AVIA International since 1998.