The Franco Fresco company continues to grow.
In the future, the popular “Gustavo Gusto” pizzas are to be made at a second location.
Franco Fresco
produces
the
frozen pizza "Gustavo Gusto"
in
Geretsried
Since the company was founded, things have been going uphill
A second production site is to be built in the small town of Artern in Thuringia
Geretsried
- The hunger for
Gustavo Gusto frozen pizza
is great: In the autumn of last year, Christoph Schramm, founder and managing director of
Franco Fresco
, announced that he wanted to expand.
On Monday, the Geretsried company reported completion.
A second production site has been found in the small town of Artern in Thuringia.
“With the new location, we can successfully implement our expansion strategy over the next few years.
We have big plans, ”said Schramm in a press release.
In
Thuringia
, Franco Fresco takes over a former production plant of the frozen bakery manufacturer Aryzta.
The Swiss company supplies the Subway fast food chain, among others.
According to the Thüringer Allgemeine, the group wants to concentrate on its most important German locations in Eisleben (Saxony-Anhalt) and therefore gave up production in Artern last year.
Production should start next year
"The former Aryzta factory meets the exacting requirements we have set for the production of our Gustavo Gusto frozen pizzas," says Schramm.
The Geretsried company plans to expand and convert the existing hall in the Arterner industrial park.
The first frozen pizzas are to be made there at the beginning of next year.
The company does not provide any information on the purchase price or the investment amount.
A few years ago Artern made headlines through the MDR docu-soap "City of Dreams" about the lives of the unemployed.
More than one in four had no job at the time, at times Artern had the highest unemployment in all of Germany, writes
Der Spiegel
.
Last
December
the unemployment rate in the Kyffhäuserkreis was 7.8 percent.
Franco Fresco wants to create around 60 jobs in the small town on the A71 and A38 motorways.
So far, almost all positions are still vacant.
They would be advertised in good time.
The location in Geretsried is retained
Christoph Schramm, born in Munich, founded Franco Fresco in 2014 as a start-up company on Geretsrieder Spreestrasse.
Initially,
15 employees produced
around
2000 pizzas a day
.
Since then, demand has been increasing rapidly.
The company expanded and has been producing on the site of the former Sieber butcher's on Böhmerwaldstraße since 2018.
According to the company,
320 women and men
now work there
.
Last year they produced
20 million pizzas.
"We have established ourselves very well on the market in Germany, Austria and Switzerland," said the managing director.
Due to the high demand, the production facility in Gartenberg regularly reaches its capacity limits.
A production expansion cannot be realized here due to the available space and the limited possibilities of the infrastructure, so Schramm.
Franco Fresco expressly announces the new production facility in Thuringia as a second location.
The managing director emphasizes that the central administrative headquarters including pizza production will remain in Geretsried.
With the additional location in Artern, the company is initially aiming to double the previous annual volume.
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