Thirty-five highly valued employees are celebrating their Kr\u00e4uter Mix work anniversaries, looking back on between ten and 50 years at the company. The firm\u2019s longest serving staff member is managing partner Christoph Mix. On August 1, 1970, aged just 18, he joined his parents\u2019 company with its eight permanent employees and 20 seasonal workers, having successfully completed his training as an industrial clerk at a Cologne-based pharmaceutical company. Even as a child, he had helped out for pocket money with his six younger siblings, picking marigolds, for example, in and around Abtswind (Germany). \u201cIt\u2019s growing just outside, go and earn it,\u201d his father Bernhard used to say. Christoph Mix has been managing partner since 1973. Today the company has over 450 employees and an annual turnover of around 120 million euros.<\/p>\n
The mid-sized family firm, which produces dried herbs, vegetables and spices for the industry, has seen strong growth in recent years. In 2010, with a turnover of just under 70 million euros, the workforce consisted of 270 people. \u201cEveryone here has played a role in the successful development of our company,\u201d said Silke Wurlitzer, managing director, as she celebrated the 35 employees marking their anniversaries at Kr\u00e4uter Mix, pointing out that the average employee at the company has worked there for eleven years. \u201cWe are very proud of this.\u201d Wurlitzer thanked the employees for their loyalty to the company and called for them to pass on their knowledge and experience to their younger colleagues.<\/p>\n
The anniversary celebrations \u2013 held strictly in compliance with Covid-19 regulations \u2013 began with a hike through the Abtswind vineyards and ended with a bite to eat and wine tasting at the local Behringer winery. The cabaret artist and singer Silvia Kirchhof from Gerolzhofen provided the entertainment. In her program \u201cFranconian wine is female\u201d, she wore ever-changing costumes as she introduced the varieties of grapes in a musical and humorous way.<\/p>\n
The following employees celebrated anniversaries. 50 years:<\/strong> Christoph Mix (managing partner); 40 years:<\/strong> Herbert Krenig (Logistics), Wolfgang Mix (Production Planning); 35 years:<\/strong> Elisabeth Fischer (Cleaning Services), Helmut Sch\u00f6nberger (Logistics), Thomas Stiele (Technical Management); 30 years:<\/strong> Karl-Heinz Funk (Logistics), Georg Hahn (Logistics), Monika Lechner (Sales); 25 years:<\/strong> Boris Schmidt (Logistics), Harald Schollmaier (Logistics); 20 years:<\/strong> Herbert Fink (Logistics), Andrea Firsching (Sales), Marc Hanselmann (Production), Olaf Kupfer (Production), Michaela M\u00f6slein (Quality Management), Ulf Pitschula (Production), Cindy Reitmeier (Sales), Marco Ring (Production), Margit Schierer-Zehnder (Production Planning), Christian Schulz (Production), Helmut Sterner (Logistics), Hubert St\u00fchler (Logistics), Nicolas Taillefer (Production), Robert Uhl (Production), Richard Veth (Logistics); 10 years:<\/strong> Doris Hahn (Quality Management), Peggy Hahn (IT), Marcus Hammermeister (Logistics), Karsten Krauss (Controlling), Margarete Mahler (Production), Constantin-Razvan Paunescu (Technical Management), Thomas Schmidt (Quality Management), Tobias Werner (Sales), Ovidiu Zay (Production).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thirty-five highly valued employees are celebrating their Kr\u00e4uter Mix work anniversaries, looking back on between ten and 50 years at the company. The firm\u2019s longest serving staff member is managing partner Christoph Mix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1193,"featured_media":6590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[210,291,282,292,226,290,143,211],"class_list":["post-4835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corporate-news","tag-abtswind-en","tag-anniversary","tag-celebrations","tag-company","tag-employees-en","tag-firm","tag-kraeuter-mix-en","tag-wiesentheid-en","category-41","description-off"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n