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| Ground-breaking ceremony for extension building - VIKING continues to grow |
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Langkampfen, 29 September: at 9:30 am, the official ground-breaking ceremony for the extension building at VIKING GmbH in Langkampfen took place. The positive development in recent years as well as excellent perspectives for the future were the reasons for the garden tool manufacturer to extend its premises. Three new assembly units, test cabins for durability testing of the appliances, a new spare parts store as well as office area will be created. The new building will cover a total additional area of 4,700 m². The extension building will already be completed in September 2007.
With this project, VIKING and its parent company STIHL are again making a clear declaration of confidence in the Tyrol location. In the coming years, VIKING will also be increasing its number of employees, as it has done in recent years. VIKING GmbH, which today celebrates its 25-year company anniversary, produces lawn mowers, ride-on mowers, garden shredders, hedge trimmers as well as other garden appliances and sells them exclusively via specialist service-providing dealers. In 2005, VIKING achieved a turnover of €83 million with 161 employees - the best result in the company's history. A result, which will be exceeded in 2006. |
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 Illustration, from left: Anton Rieder junior from the commissioned Kufstein building contractor Rieder, VIKING's Managing Director Heinrich Lechner, member of the Board for Marketing and Sales at STIHL Jürgen Steinhauser, member of the Advisory Board at STIHL Rüdiger Stihl, VIKING's Managing Director Nikolas Stihl, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of parent company STIHL Hans Peter Stihl, Chairman of the Board of STIHL AG Bertram Kandziora, member of the Board for Development at STIHL Wolfgang Zahn, VIKING's Production Manager Josef Koller and Anton Rieder senior, from the commissioned Kufstein building contractor Rieder. Original photo (jpg-file, 554 kB) |
press release (doc-file, 26 kB) press release + photos (zip-file, 557 kB) |