G3 September 2014

Insight GAUSELMANN GROUP

In his welcoming speech group founder Paul Gauselmann thanked everyone involved in realising the building project.

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SPEAKING The Gauselmann Group’s latest building project in Lübbecke Germany is the largest the company has ever undertaken and a hugely impressive feat of precision German engineering.

The biggest building project in the history of the Gauselmann Group - building a new logistics centre at their development and production location Lübbecke - took 15 months and is now finished. The Gauselmann entrepreneurial family celebrated the completion of the new logistics centre together with numerous political and business notables on 15 July 2014.

“Our development and production location in Lübbecke now features a state-of-the-art logistics centre that didn’t take long to build” said the group’s founder and host Paul Gauselmann in his speech, welcoming the 150 guests present. “It was a pleasure to watch the project’s progress”. The 151 by 74 meter centre is 17 meters high and has a usable area of 21,000 square meters - plenty of space for the Gauselmann group’s innovative products. In the new centre there is storage space for logistics as well as additional space for development, production and service.

The group's founder considers the location only natural. After all, the group’s home is in this region. This is where what was once a one-man operation started up. Initially it was based in Espelkamp, the production site in Lübbecke was built in 1977. The whole group is now a multinational selling its products all over the world. This investment in Lübbecke is a more than emphatic acknowledgement by the group of its roots.

The host also thanked everyone concerned for their active support. “Mastering this mammoth task in addition to the normal daily workload was a real challenge, only surmountable by a team effort. I’d like to express my sincerest thanks to all involved, particularly our colleagues and the 48 local companies who helped carry out the work”.

There was plenty of praise from the guests of honour, too. Eckhard Witte, mayor of the city of Lübbecke, praised the entrepreneurial family’s

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loyalty to his city. “As a family-owned company the Gauselmann Group is not solely concerned with commercial success but also acts with strategic foresight, creates a lot of jobs and training opportunities and involves itself with its

“Family run companies such

as the Gauselmann Group are the economic backbone of our region. Without them the

region would be very much the poorer.”

home region long term. It is a major prop of this city’s economic strength”. Espelkamp’s mayor Heinrich Vieker agreed. “The Gauselmann Group ensures quality of life and prosperity in our home town. Building the new logistics centre is hence a trendsetting example for the entire region”. Hartmut Heinen of the Economics and Finance department of the municipality of Minden- Lübbecke added that “family run companies such as the Gauselmann Group are the economic backbone of our region. Without them the region would be very much the poorer”.

Thomas Niehoff, managing director of the Ostwestfalen chamber of commerce in Bielefeld,

pointed out the prevailing lack of trained staff in the area in his brief welcoming speech. “We must persuade new trainees and apprentices to come to live in the region and ensure they will want to stay here. The Gauselmann Group sets a good example here by promoting our region’s attractiveness with a variety of training opportunities, entrepreneurial commitment and not least with the investment in this new logistics centre”.

How important entrepreneurial commitment is to the strength of any business location was also emphasised by Dr. Günther Horzetzky, State Secretary of the Ministry of Economics of the province of North Rhine-Westphalia. “This region is one of the strongest economically in the entire province” he stated. He shovelled the first spadeful of earth on the site of the new centre in March 2013 together with Paul and Armin Gauselmann and mayor Eckhard Witte. “Only through investment this situation can be maintained in the long term. This is not an easy decision to make, particularly in difficult political times, such as those the Gauselmann Group is currently going through. To invest despite dark clouds being evident on the horizon takes courage and steadfastness. This earns the group our respect”.

Jürgen Stühmeyer, sales director of the

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