The Grau bakery branches in Fellbach and Stuttgart are already closed (archive photo). © ZVW/Alexandra Palmizi
The Grau bakery with branches in Fellbach and Stuttgart is closing permanently. The insolvency proceedings, in which branches have already been sold and production relocated, have failed. The employees are laid off. Ines Grau, who ran the bakery founded by her grandfather in 1939, is shocked. At the same time, she accuses the insolvency administrator of having to save on quality. She wasn’t ready for that. The lawyer from Stuttgart comments.
The owner informs about the end on the Grau Bakery website. “The decision to close the business breaks my heart,” said Ines Grau. She had hope through the “package of measures” implemented in the insolvency proceedings, in which, in addition to branch closures, “expensive products were removed from the range” and “work processes were streamlined”. There were “new creative ideas”.
Ines Grau: “I was wrong,” hope for stabilization was in vain
But the hoped-for stabilization did not come. “I was wrong,” said Grau. Because the insolvency administrator demanded “even more drastic steps” from her. She was supposed to “no longer make baked goods herself” but rather buy “(semi-)finished baked goods made from inferior ingredients and of dubious quality”. But that contradicts the “company philosophy”. “I’m not ready for that,” writes Ines Grau.
Grau Bakery: Insolvency administrator Eibofner: “Production costs too high”
In response to our inquiry, insolvency administrator Markus Eibofner explained: “It was not possible to produce an adequate calculation. Among other things, production costs remained too high. Further investments would have been necessary for further optimization measures. The funds for this could not be generated from current income. In order not to miss any opportunity for restructuring, it was also necessary to examine the extent to which purchasing products from other bakeries could lead to the continuation of operations. This did not mean that I was pursuing the idea of inferior products. Shopping can only be cheaper than producing it yourself.”
Administrator Eibofner continued: “Operations now had to be completely stopped and all employment relationships had to be terminated.” The branches are already closed. “I deeply regret that the renovation was not successful.”
The Grau bakery with branches in Fellbach and Stuttgart is closing permanently. The insolvency proceedings, in which branches have already been sold and production relocated, have failed. The employees are laid off. Ines Grau, who ran the bakery founded by her grandfather in 1939, is shocked. At the same time, she accuses the insolvency administrator of having to save on quality. She wasn’t ready for that. The lawyer from Stuttgart takes
2024-03-06 02:05:51
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