Kleintettau/Schleissheim Palace. ‘Bavaria's Best 50’ is an annual award given to 50 particularly fast-growing, medium-sized Bavarian companies. The HEINZ-GLAS Group was recently honoured with this award – the company received the white Bavarian Growth Lion from the hands of the Bavarian Minister of Economic Affairs, Hubert Aiwanger, at the award ceremony in Schleissheim Palace near Munich. The main criterion for the prize is a particular growth in sales and employees over the last five years.
‘With performance, commitment and creativity, Bavarian medium-sized companies have created thousands of jobs and thus contributed significantly to economic growth and prosperity in the Free State. In recognition of this work, this year we are once again honouring those medium-sized companies with the BAYERNS BEST 50 award that have proven to be particularly strong in terms of growth and have been able to increase their number of employees and turnover above average within the last five years,’ said Hubert Aiwanger at the award ceremony on 23 July 2024.
The prize also brings medium-sized companies more into the public eye in line with their economic and social importance, while also positioning them as entrepreneurial role models.
The HEINZ-GLAS Group has been able to continuously increase its turnover in recent years. In 2023, this was just under half a billion euros. The number of employees has also grown steadily in recent years: the company currently employs almost 4,000 people at 18 locations in 13 countries.
Above all, the wide range of opportunities for technical and commercial vocational training, the dual study programmes and the attractive further training programmes within the company form a strong backbone for healthy and sustainable personnel development and thus for corporate growth. When the new training programme began in September 2023, the company took on more than 30 new apprentices at its German sites in Kleintettau, Piesau and Spechtsbrunn for the first time. In total, the flacon glass manufacturer and refiner employs 125 apprentices in Germany. By way of comparison, five years ago the figure was just 80.
