The Helmut Koenig Private Foundation’s Board of Directors announced the reorganization of the management by naming Hannes Stelzer, long-standing, proven and far-sighted Managing Director, the management of Koenig Maschinen GmbH as well as the Koenig Group international in the full confidence of the owners. The board also dismissed Wolfgang Staufer as CEO.
Klaus Gasser, authorized signatory, reliable and prudent head of finance and human resources at Koenig for many years, joins Hannes Stelzer in the management of Koenig Maschinen with immediate effect.
For 57 years, the Austrian Koenig Group has been supplying bakeries worldwide with high-quality, sophisticated bakery machines, ovens and bread roll lines. Constant innovation ensures the company’s leading position worldwide. Since its foundation in 1966, Koenig’s main objective has been to support bakers in their daily work.
The Koenig Group has a total of around 700 employees, 250 of whom work at the headquarters in Graz. With a worldwide network of sales partners and subsidiaries in Austria, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Finland, the Netherlands and the USA, Koenig achieves an export quota of around 90%.