Wiesbauer
| Wiesbauer Holding AG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1931 |
| Seat | Vienna |
| management | Karl Schmiedbauer |
| Number of employees | 800 |
| sales | 190 million euros (2019) |
| Branch | Sausage and meat production |
| Website | www.wiesbauer.at |
| Status: 2020 | |
Wiesbauer is an Austrian sausage manufacturer based in Vienna - Inzersdorf .
history
The Wiesbauer company was founded in 1931 by Franz Wiesbauer in Vienna. The first production facility was in Fünfhaus , but the location was soon relocated to Ottakring, where the "Bergsteiger" sausage was invented. In 1940 the company headquarters was relocated to Hietzing . After the company's founder died in 1968, Maria Wiesbauer, Franz Wiesbauer's widow, took over the management of the company. In the mid-1980s it led the Bergsteiger brand to become the leading perennial sausage in Austria, and in 1986 the Bergsteigerwurst was licensed in Germany under the name "Wiesbauer - Salami".
In 1988, Maria Wiesbauer brought Karl Schmiedbauer, who had joined the company in 1976 as an assistant to the management, into the management and in 1993 had the ground-breaking ceremony for the company's new building in Vienna-Inzersdorf. The investments for the new building amounted to around 420 million schillings (around 30.4 million euros). Wiesbauer also invested in the new eastern markets and in 1994 bought a company in Hungary that was named "Wiesbauer-Dunahús". In 1995, the new Inzersdorf production facility was completed, and joining the European Union also made it possible to start direct export activities to Germany with our own sales structure. 1997 saw the start of a new production hall in Hungary, which went into operation in 1998. In 2003 the Teufner GmbH was taken over, which was initially continued under the name of Teufner meat specialties and was renamed "Wiesbauer Gourmet Gastro GmbH" in 2008. Maria Wiesbauer died on May 13, 2003 at the age of 91 in Vienna.
Wiesbauer has sponsored the Tour of Austria for several years . The municipal council of Prägraten am Großvenediger , a stage destination of the tour since 2006, renamed the Mullwitzkkogel to Wiesbauerspitze in honor of the company's founder Franz Wiesbauer .
Group of companies
The core of the Wiesbauer Group is the company "Wiesbauer Austria". It has 485 employees and achieved sales of 85 million euros in 2011. Sales of sausages and meat products totaled 12,000 tons in 2011, with the focus on the production of around 80 Austrian sausage specialties. Wiesbauer Austria also produced ham products, around 50 percent of which were sold through wholesalers and retailers, and another 50 percent were exported. In addition, "Wiesbauer-Dunahús" in Gönyü and "Wiesbauer Gourmet Gastro GmbH - Wiesbauer's gastro company" in Sitzenberg-Reidling have been part of the group since 1994 . "Wiesbauer-Dunahús" employs 80 people and achieved a turnover of EUR 10 million in 2011 with sales of 1,500 tons. Wiesbauer Gourmet Gastro GmbH produced sales of 7,000 tons in 2011 with 115 employees and achieved sales of 45 million euros. In addition, the sales offices of "Wiesbauer Germany" and "Wiesbauer posredovanje doo" in Slovenia for the south-eastern European market as well as three branches in Vienna belong to the group of companies.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Wiesbauer - Austrian sausage specialties: Press. Company website. Retrieved January 22, 2020.