Jubiläum: 25 Jahre
We celebrate 25 years of Kurtz Holding!
Exactly a quarter of a century ago, Kurtz Holding GmbH & Co. Beteiligungs KG was founded as the central management holding company of the Kurtz Ersa Group in Kreuzwertheim. Two goals were in the foreground: on the one hand, the strategic leadership of the business units by a corporate management – today´s Global Board. On the other hand, the leveraging of synergies and best practice for all commercial and related areas – today´s central divisions.
At that time, we started with the Finance division – of which two founding members are still on board: Edwin Meixner in Controlling and Anita Dosch in Finance. After a very successful start, the corporate functions were successively expanded. Today, the holding company bundles the competence areas of Finance/Controlling, Human Resources (People & Culture), Training with the Hammer Academy, IT/SAP, Software and Industry 4.0, Purchasing/Disposition, Supply Chain/Logistics, Real Estate, Quality Management/Sustainability and Communication. This means that the holding company currently employs 113 people.
It has always been important for the business units to be able to act autonomously, quickly and close to the market in their customer-customer processes and technical innovations. At the same time, we want to be a leader in processes and hold this together via the common bracket of the holding company.
Thanks to our outstanding employees, both in the holding company and in the business units, we have made enormous progress in this area over the past 25 years. In the past 15 years, we have also gradually added our foreign subsidiaries, above all Asia and Americas. We are very proud to be able to speak and feel like Kurtz Ersa today – and not a collection of individual companies.
450% increase compared to 1998
In the year the holding company was founded, Kurtz Ersa generated sales of 80 million Euros with 800 employees – last year, we turned over 360 million Euros with a team of 1,500. A remarkable increase of 450 percent, which is even higher considering the difficult economic conditions of the recent past! This also involved the transformation from a conglomerate to a mechanical engineering company.
We are proud of what we have achieved and would like to thank all employees in the holding company and the business units – in other words, all Kurtz Ersa employees worldwide – who have accompanied us on this path and whose joint success is our Kurtz Ersa today. To the next 25 years a traditional GLÜCK AUF!
