The former imperial and royal purveyor to the court is investing in expanding the production area (bakery) and storage capacity, modernizing the packaging, mailing and administration departments and creating more spacious employee areas. Postal delivery and online shop as driving forces In recent years, demand for the online shop has increased rapidly. "The sharp increase in demand in the online shop segment is mainly due to the fact that we launched our online shop back in 1995. This laid the foundation for this important and sustainable building block of our company at an early stage," says Josef Zauner. New jobs in the center of Bad Ischl "In the short term, we expect to create 5 - 10 new jobs, which will be created immediately in the center of Bad Ischl after the project has been completed. It would be much easier to implement this project on a greenfield site, but we have decided against this because our headquarters and the town of Bad Ischl are very important to us: We are therefore pursuing a sustainable strategy of developing our company in the heart of the town and constantly creating new jobs here," Philipp Zauner The workforce of the former court confectioner will therefore increase to over 160 employees. Ongoing operations as a challenge The construction project is being implemented in the "heart" of the company during the summer high season. Managing ongoing business as best as possible is becoming a challenge. "Over the past decades, we have gained a lot of experience in carrying out renovation work while operations were ongoing. That is why I am optimistic that we will be able to implement this project smoothly and without any loss of quality in our products," Josef Zauner. The new areas are scheduled to go into operation in November 2023.
"Today we strive to make our range in the online shop as extensive and varied as we do in our well-known cake buffet. Our constantly changing range for Christmas, Easter, Valentine's Day, etc. is extremely popular and our extremely fast processing of orders is what sets us apart. In this way, we are responding to this modern trend and yet remaining true to our line as a down-to-earth craft business," says Philipp Zauner.
Sales in the shipping segment have developed consistently positively in recent years; in order to continue to meet this trend, Zauner is now creating additional, modern production, storage, administration and packaging areas on an area of around 1,500 square meters.
In order to offer more comfort to the constantly growing workforce, the lounge and changing areas are being enlarged and redesigned.
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