Gustavo Gusto celebrates award - "No one else puts in so much effort"
Created: 09/24/2022, 17:03
By: Doris Schmid
Non-stop pizza: Gustavo Gusto delivers over 100,000 frozen pizzas to supermarkets every day – in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
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The 2022 SME Grand Prix goes to the frozen pizza manufacturer from Geretsried.
“We are overwhelmed,” says the managing director.
Geretsried/Würzburg – The Geretsried-based frozen pizza manufacturer Gustavo Gusto was recently awarded the “Grand Prize for SMEs 2022” from the Leipzig Oskar Patzelt Foundation.
"We are overwhelmed by this award," Christoph Schramm, founder and managing director of Gustavo Gusto, is quoted as saying in a press release.
“The Grand Prix for SMEs is one of the most important business prizes in Germany.
We are immensely proud and grateful for that.”
Gustavo Gusto celebrates a high award - "No one else puts in so much effort"
Special thanks go to employees, suppliers, partners in the food trade and customers.
"We owe what we have achieved in this short time to all the people who believed in us, who supported us and who are convinced of our frozen pizzas."
Accepted the award and certificate for Gustavo Gusto in Würzburg: Matthias Schindel, manager of the new production plant in Thuringia.
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Gustavo Gusto "has a permanent place in the chests"
Among other things, the laudatory speech stated: “Gustavo Gusto has taken advantage of a trend, namely that towards more conscious nutrition.
People long for higher quality, more sustainable products.” Paradoxically, the company fulfills this longing in an area where this was previously considered impossible: frozen pizza.
"Although this market has been in the hands of less powerful players for decades, the small pizzeria from Passau has conquered a permanent place in the coffers with no strategic investors and no connections."
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Gustavo Gusto is the fastest growing food brand in all of Europe.
In the Corona year, the company showed attitude.
As reported, the company supplied systemically important facilities such as hospitals with free pizza, advised against its own product in a nationwide campaign and called for restaurants to be supported first and collected a six-figure sum for endangered catering establishments.
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The company started as a start-up in 2016 with the production of premium frozen pizzas and thus created a new segment.
The pizzas are now not only available in Germany, but also in Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands.
Meanwhile, ice cream is also produced.
“Where necessary, Gustavo Gusto consistently relies on manual work.
No other provider puts in such great effort.” The company, based on Böhmerwaldstraße, currently employs more than 430 people nationwide.
Production will soon begin in a second plant in Thuringia.
Schramm: "We will continue our expansion in Germany and Europe."
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