Wolfgang Grupp reassures his employees: no layoffs are planned at Trigema
Created: 08/10/2022, 17:08
By: Sina Alonso Garcia
In an interview with "Bild", Trigema boss Wolfgang Grupp recently warned of an impending wave of layoffs.
With regard to his own company, he is now giving the all-clear: his 1,200 employees should keep their jobs.
Burladingen - Energy in Germany has never been as expensive as it is now.
On the stock exchange, electricity prices reached a new record last week (week 31).
As the comparison
portal Check24
reported, one megawatt hour now costs 391 euros.
For comparison: In the same week in 2021, a megawatt hour still cost 70 euros.
This means that the price has increased by 459 percent within a year.
Not only private households suffer from the price increase.
The price increase also has fatal consequences for companies.
In an interview with
Bild
, Trigema boss Wolfgang Grupp warned of an impending wave of layoffs in German companies.
Grupp's warning has been making waves in the past few days, as reported
by BW24
.
Do his own employees also have to worry now?
The Trigema boss gives the all-clear.
"I was speaking in general terms," he assures the
Black Forest Bote.
"No layoffs are planned at Trigema." Only recently, however, Wolfgang Grupp struck a completely different note at
Maischberger
(ARD)
: There he spoke about the exorbitantly increased gas prices in the company and explained that he was very concerned.
Trigema boss Wolfgang Grupp: "I have reserves and can hold out for a while"
Even if the economic situation seems more fragile than ever, Grupp is confident: "I have reserves and can hold out for a while," says the 80-year-old.
Because: Trigema does not have to service any loans and has 100 percent equity.
"A couple of years" you could maybe hold out, says Grupp.
Trigema Managing Director Wolfgang Grupp is personally and directly liable for the company with all his assets.
© Christoph Schmidt/dpa (photomontage BW24)
Although Grupp emphatically emphasizes that the "wave of layoffs" he warned about at
Bild
does not affect his own employees, the current situation should not make them exactly optimistic.
After all, there have never been any redundancies under Wolfgang Grupp at Trigema.
Instead, the Trigema boss assured the employees that their children would also be guaranteed a job there.
What the future will bring remains to be seen.
