Living our responsibility

Top quality and reliability are of central importance to us. Our employees in all areas of the company are supported in their work by an array of professional structures. We pledge consistent quality in our products, a wide-ranging product portfolio tailored to our customers’ needs with an extensive inventory, modern logistics systems and sophisticated automation. We guarantee our customers optimum order processes and high supply capability.

We ensure transparency both inside and outside our organization by establishing compliance guidelines and quality management systems, and by maintaining professional certification and top ratings.

 

We engage in intensive exchanges of ideas and experience with our customers, partners and suppliers; we are members of industry and professional organizations and associations, enabling us to tailor our operations to the needs of markets and customers and play an active role in shaping the industry. We make the most of our expertise to continuously improve our processes and pursue open, honest dealings that benefit our customers.

In a family-run company, working together and taking care of one another are closely interwoven. Good health goes hand in hand with higher quality of life, both professional and personal, for each and every individual. We regard occupational health management as a sign of appreciation and respect. In addition to establishing extensive occupational safety measures, we hold regular health promotion and preventive health campaigns for our workforce. We are part of Bündnis Gesundheit Ellwangen (Ellwangen Health Alliance), a group of nine companies that jointly organize an annual fitness and health programme for their employees.

 

As a company that is firmly anchored in the region, we support a wide range of social commitment.

Sport connects people. Skills such as fairness, the ability to work in a team and tolerance are already promoted here among young people. These are aspects that are important to us. For these reasons, we promote popular sports and various sports clubs and sporting events in our region.

Football is said to have a great social integration power. The role of football in our society is enormous. The enthusiasm for the world's most important sport unites millions of people.

Since the 2020/21 season, we have been sponsoring 1st FC Heidenheim as a Gold Plus Partner. The 1st league club impresses with a great development and a strong club and fan culture. The young professional footballers experience a strong community here and receive an exemplary education. When visiting the stadium in Heidenheim, the spark jumps over to all visitors. At the same time, it is a meeting place for like-minded people from the region. It is not for nothing that the club enjoys a loyal community of sponsors. As a company, we naturally keep an eye on our brand presence, but we also enjoy the fascination for football locally with our customers and partner companies. Together, we pursue the interest of continuing to help the 1st FCH to success and to promote competitive sport in our region.

Preserving and strengthening culture in the home of our company, as well as promoting new initiatives, is a real concern for us. And cultural creation was and is dependent on voluntary and financial support. We take this mission seriously and regularly support, for example, the Ellwanger Kunstverein, the Ellwanger Jazz Orchestra, the theatre group Hakuna Matata e.V. and various other cultural events and initiatives such as the drive-in cinema and the Midsummer Night's Flicker in Ellwangen.

Good education plays an important role throughout life. Based on this conviction, we invest in the future of our homeland - starting with playful learning and awakening interests in early childhood and beyond the end of school. We support various kindergarten and school projects, sometimes with active commitment. Through Lions, we support the School 2000 project, drug and violence prevention in schools, as well as career and study information projects for students through Rotary.

We consider youth work to be important and worth supporting. We helped with the renovation of the leisure home of the Protestant parish of Ellwangen. It is available exclusively for groups of children and young people, who carry out weekend camps, tent camps, school hostels and kindergarten forest weeks there.

We promote a wide range of social commitment with regular donations.

Under the motto "Donation instead of gifts" - we provide help for a good cause and

support a wide range of social projects every year with our Christmas donation.

Here are a few examples:

International: Bread for the World, Doctors Without Borders

Regional: Inpatient Hospice Service of the St. Anna Schwestern and Ecumenical Outpatient Hospice Service, fiftyFifty Taxi

Local: Ecumenical Vesper Church in Ellwangen, Youth Fire Brigade, Friends and Sponsors of St. Anna-Virngrund-Klinik, St. Anna Sisters (hospice, day care), Protestant parish

The Protestant parish is using our 2024 Christmas donation for the outpatient, ecumenical hospice service.

Here, people must be trained to provide psychological and psychosomatic help for grief work. The training costs €1,200 per person.

Part of our donation goes directly to the hospice service and the other part is used to finance the training.

Furthermore, we are members of various support groups: e.g. Bildungsgemeinschaft mit Buchenbergschule Ellwangen or Karl-Stirner-Schule Rosenberg, Förderverein Konrad-Biesalski-Schule, Ev. Jugendwerk Baden Württemberg, Förderkreis St. Anna und Ostalb hilft.

We are also an active founding member of the aid organization "Die Ostalb hilft", which was launched on the occasion of refugee aid in the Ostalbkreis.