- Nominees announced at the network event Corporate Succession in Dresden in the presence of State Secretary Thomas Kralinski
- The nominees were selected by a cross-regional expert committee with representatives from the Chambers of Commerce, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Saxony Guarantee Bank
- More than 50 companies from all over Saxony applied for the award for successful company succession
- Bürgschaftsbank Sachsen awards prizes to companies in the categories of family-internal, company-internal and company-external succession
- Prize winners will be awarded at the beginning of October in the presence of Martin Dulig, Saxon Minister of Economic Affairs and patron of the competition
Dresden, September 11, 2024: This year, too, numerous candidates from Dresden and East Saxony have made it onto the shortlist for the Saxon Milestone 2024, the award for successful company succession. In the presence of State Secretary for Economic Affairs Thomas Kralinski, the Bürgschaftsbank Sachsen (BBS) announced yesterday at its networking event in Dresden which 19 companies from the region have been nominated for the succession award. They emerged as favorites from over 50 applications and still have the chance to win prize money totaling 17,000 euros. Not every nominee took on the succession alone: The 19 nominated companies have a total of 29 successors, including 15 women.
The following companies from the district of the Dresden Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Dresden Chamber of Crafts are among the nominees for the Saxon Milestone 2024:
Category: family succession
- Feindreh GmbH from Arnsdorf (Acquirers: Anja Peplinski, Michael Grünler | Transferors: Steffen Ruhtz, Wilfried Grünler)
- Tile trade Apel GmbH from Dresden (Acquirers: Melanie Apel-Albertus, Lysann Apel | Transferor: Gert Apel)
- Lucas GmbH / LAI Lucas Anlageninstandhaltung GmbH from Königsbrück (Acquirer: Stephanie Lucas, Sebastian Lucas-Delaval | Transferor: Peter Lucas, Christoph Eifler)
- Nursing Center Beck GmbH & Co. KG from Bad Gottleuba-Berggießhübel (Acquirer: Tabea Beck | Transferor: Ruth Beck, Joachim Beck)
- SITA Messtechnik GmbH from Dresden (Acquirers: Juliane Schulze, Kathrin Schulze | Transferor: Prof. Dr. Lothar Schulze)
- STAMM GmbH – Communication, data and electrical engineering from Riesa (Acquirer: Maik Stamm | Transferor: Wolfgang Stamm)
- Werkzeugbau Winkelmühle GmbH aus Klingenberg (Acquirers: Karina Baumgart-Läderach, Stefan Baumgart, Annett Berthold, Tom Berthold | Transferors: Hartmut Baumgart, Karl-Heinz Berthold)
Category internal company succession
- Funkservice Kunze GmbH from Dresden (Acquirer: Jakob Schneider | Transferor: Hartmut Kunze)
- Glasbiegerei Pfaltz – The glass manufacturer – e. K. from Radeburg (Acquirer: Madlen Meyer | Transferor: Dieter Pfaltz)
- Healing Hands Görlitz, practice for physiotherapy & holistic therapy from Görlitz (Acquirer: Natalie Linke | Transferor: Peter Kehr, Susan Kehr)
- Physiotherapy practice Carola Tscharke from Radeberg (Transferee: Carola Tscharke | Transferor: Cornelia Gräfe)
- WiE GmbH – factory for industrial electronics from Kreischa (Acquirer: André Lienert | Transferor: Thomas Werner)
Category external succession
- Altenberger Genuss GmbH from Altenberg (Acquirer: Thomas Röpke | Transferor: Christine Baeseler)
- elnic in Dresden GmbH from Dresden (Acquirer: Hans Lehmann | Transferor: Rainer Berge)
- Dorfladen Höckendorf e. K. from Klingenberg (Acquirer: Jaqueline Geißler | Transferor: Bärbel Leiteritz)
- PURTEC Engineering GmbH from Königswartha (Acquirer: Markus Scheithauer, Victoria Scheithauer | Transferor: Roland Lange)
- TGB Schweißtechnischer Fachhandel GmbH from Bannewitz (Acquirer: Carsten Wolf | Transferor: Torsten Groschupf, Mario Groschupf)
- VGS Leuchttechnik GmbH from Dresden (Acquirers: René Roch, Georg Sauer | Transferors: Anke Bachmann, Ralf Bachmann)
- Zaffaran GmbH from Dresden (Acquirer: Christiane Rose, Johann Hempel | Transferor: Barbara Klingenburg)
The nominated companies represent the diversity of the Saxon economy, from locally focused companies such as physiotherapy practices, craft businesses and retail stores to technology companies with an international customer base. In addition to an award in one of the three competition categories, the nominees can hope for a special prize from the jury. The BBS is awarding the Saxon Milestone for the 9th time this year and again under the patronage of State Minister Martin Dulig.
Martin Dulig, Minister of Economic Affairs and Labour of the Free State of Saxony and patron of the Saxon Milestone:
“Every single nomination for the Saxon Milestone represents a successful succession plan. The nominated successors deserve my respect for their courage to take on entrepreneurial responsibility and their will to actively shape the future of the Saxon economy. The Saxon Milestone makes their examples of success visible and thus motivates all those who will face the challenge of handing over their company in the coming years or who are interested in taking over.”
Christian Doerr, Vice President of the Dresden Chamber of Commerce and Industry and member of the Board of Directors of the Bürgschaftsbank Sachsen:
»For me personally, as a third-generation entrepreneur of a medium-sized family business, it is an honor and at the same time a responsible challenge to be able to help determine the best company successions in the three categories. The high number of medium-sized applicants with successful company successions, both qualitatively and quantitatively, is a positive sign, especially in these current times when we are increasingly receiving negative news, especially from DAX corporations and large companies from various industries.«
Dr. Andreas Brzezinski, Managing Director of the Dresden Chamber of Crafts and Member of the Board of Directors of the Bürgschaftsbank Sachsen:
“Successful company successions are of central importance for the region’s trades. They are the driving force behind a sustainable economy and society. Successors are therefore urgently needed. The Saxon Milestone will shine a spotlight on local success stories.”
With the network event Succession, the BBS offered an exchange platform yesterday at the Kraftwerk Mitte in Dresden, to which all applicants for the Saxon Milestone as well as future successors and transferors were invited. The event also attracted a number of representatives from organizations that offer consulting, financing and brokerage services in the area of company succession. In the keynote speech “Company succession – the supreme discipline in the strategic management of family businesses”, Prof. Dr. Andreas Pinkwart, holder of the professorship for innovation and technology management at the Technical University of Dresden, examined the topic from a scientific perspective.
The applications received for the Saxon Milestone 2024 were also evaluated from a scientific point of view. A project team from the Dresden University of Applied Sciences (HTW), led by Prof. Dr. Torsten Gonschorek, assessed all submissions. Criteria such as the development of employee and sales figures since the takeover, the future viability of the business model and the management of takeover-related challenges were given special consideration. In a subsequent round of evaluation, representatives of the Saxon Chambers of Industry and Commerce, the Chambers of Crafts, the Saxon State Ministry for Economic Affairs, Labor and Transport and the BBS selected the nominees.
The final winners will be selected by a 9-member expert jury chaired by Heiner Hellfritzsch (former managing partner of Florena Cosmetic GmbH) at the end of September. The Saxon Milestone 2024 will reach its final climax with the ceremonial award ceremony on October 1, 2024 at Albrechtberg Castle in Dresden, which State Minister Martin Dulig is also expected to attend.
Further information on the Saxon Milestone 2024: https://saechsischer-meilenstein.de/
About the BBS
The Bürgschaftsbank Sachsen GmbH (BBS) is a publicly funded special credit institution. The task of the BBS is, as a self-help institution of the commercial economy, to work together with the house banks to secure the financing of promising projects of small and medium-sized companies in the commercial economy and the liberal professions in Saxony with guarantees. The BBS was founded in 1990 and is a member of the Association of German Guarantee Banks. It provides guarantees of up to 80 percent of the respective loan amount and up to a guarantee amount of 2.5 million euros.
Contact
Guarantee Bank Saxony GmbH
Anton-Graff-Strasse 20
01309 Dresden
Management: Markus H. Michalow, Arne Laß
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Contact person: Anne Körbl
Telephone: 0151 534298-63 | Mail: anne.koerbl@bbs-sachsen.de
