A record – even for Karl Knauer: Celebrating 50 employees’ long-service anniversaries!

Once Karl Knauer, always Karl Knauer – this impression becomes clear when you look at the long list of employees celebrating milestone anniversaries at the packaging specialist this year. 

50 colleagues in total who have been with the long-established Biberach company for more than 10 years were honoured on 8 November at Partyhaus Damm im Dörfle in Zell am Harmersbach by Stefanie Wieckenberg, Managing Partner and the granddaughter of company founder Karl Knauer.

However, with 10 and 20 years of service, seven and 17 colleagues respectively are still considered relative newcomers at Karl Knauer. Nine employees who have been part of the workforce for a quarter of a century received a silver deer – the company’s symbol and logo – to take home with them. The golden deer for 35 years of service as part of the Karl Knauer team was presented seven times over the course of this entertaining evening. Last but not least, the platinum deer was awarded to two employees who have been part of the Biberach workforce since 1979 – an impressive 45 years.

“We are breaking our own records this year,” commented Nicki Eberle, Karl Knauer’s Managing Director, with a smile. “50 long-serving employees with a combined total of 1,260 years of service is completely unprecedented! If this trend continues, we’ll need to find an even larger venue.” Company anniversaries were previously celebrated at Hotel Badischer Hof in Prinzbach, but it turned out to be too small for this year’s number of long-service employees.

“I am thrilled by the dedication shown to our company and, on behalf of my family, I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your many years of loyalty. It’s impressive testimony to the strong sense of community we’ve cultivated here at Karl Knauer across decades and generations,” remarked Ms Wieckenberg, who is the third generation ro lead the family-run business as the founder’s granddaughter. Marco Manna, the third member of Karl Knauer’s leadership team, looked to the future as the celebration drew to a close. “I am confident that – with our team’s combined experience, expertise and innovative strength – we will continue supplying all of Europe with packaging, promotional products, gift packaging and packaging machinery which – like us and our long-serving employees – are ‘impressively different’, and indeed truly typical of Karl Knauer.”

About the Karl Knauer Group

The Karl Knauer Group’s core competences include innovative packaging, promotional products and gift packaging made of cardboard, flute and paper, as well as mechanical engineering solutions. With its two sites – one in Germany (Biberach) and the other in Poland (Pniewy) – the company is one of the leading suppliers in the packaging sector. Customers from the branded goods and service industries throughout Europe benefit from the company’s diverse expertise and impressively high level of vertical integration.

In dialogue with its customers, Karl Knauer develops designs that meet all packaging requirements – from protection and safety to attractive presentation at the point of sale. Karl Knauer offers specialised ranges with state-of-the-art packaging technologies for seven industry-specific competence fields: cosmetics/bodycare, pharmaceuticals/health, environment/nature, food/agriculture, beverages, home/industry and blister cards. In addition, the company is hard at work researching innovations that will meet the packaging needs of the future – whether in the fields of smart packaging, convenience, product safety, counterfeit protection, finishing technologies or efficiency and sustainability.

The employees celebrating long-service anniversaries

10 years:
Angelina Hertig, Tobias Dieterle, Markus Luchner, Michael Jäger, Alexander Hofferberg, Axel Faber, Henrik Giesler

20 years:
Lidia Geringer, Elvira Hauerhof, Andre Schultheiß, Diana Steinhagen, Timo Lang, Serge Jung, Frank Schneider, Andreas Jogerst, Catrin Zimmermann, Benjamin Gallus, Markus Beck, Sven Bühler, Christian Hug, Gerhard Huber, Sabrina Cunico, Konstanze Ringwald, Berthold Matt

25 years:
Reinhilde Schmid, Sylvia Schmieder, Sieglinde Haag, Nathalie Lehmann, Yvonne Rizzo-Pfisterer, Sieglinde Keller, Egon Sendler, Isolde Lehmann, Axel Dach

30 years:
Ingrid Ramsteiner, Rudolf Mayer, Manuela Gutmann

35 years:
Franz Mäntele, Gerlinde Becker, Georg Schätzle, Martin Rappenecker, Frank Bächle, Christina Dilger, Anette Fehrenbacher

40 years:
Ulrike Schätzle, Germana Gissler, Achim Armbruster, Klaus Kopf, Jürgen Glatz

45 years:
Ursula Schwendemann, Bernhard Echle