KRONEN was originally founded in 1978. In 1998, Rudolf Hans Zillgith transformed the former business division of machines for the salad, fruit and vegetable industry into an independent company and took the helm as the Managing Director of the new KRONEN GmbH. Under his management and with a strategy of further orientation toward exports, the company soon established itself in international markets and achieved impressive growth.
In celebration of this year’s company anniversary, Alwin Wagner, Deputy Managing Director of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce of the Southern Upper Rhine Area (IHK Südlicher Oberrhein), presented Rudolf Hans Zillgith with the IHK anniversary certificate and congratulated him on his entrepreneurial foresight and achievements. Given that the senior manager also recently celebrated his 80th birthday, the entire Management Board and KRONEN employees also shared their congratulations.
“I am happy and proud to be able to look back on such a successful company history. The takeover and further development of KRONEN GmbH was a decisive step for me personally, and I have never regretted it,” declared Rudolf Hans Zillgith, celebrating his 25 years as Managing Director. “I am delighted that we have gotten to where we are today. It was definitely not always easy – after all, entrepreneurs and companies repeatedly face major challenges. In fact, the current world, cost and supply situation is a prime example. Nonetheless, here at KRONEN, we have always mastered such challenges.”
The company owner also places value on ensuring that KRONEN is and remains family-run and future-oriented. In 1999, trat mit the next generation of the Zillgith family joined the company when the qualified engineer (with a German Dipl. Ing (FH) degree) Stephan Zillgith took on the role of Technical Manager. He went on to take over joint responsibility of KRONEN as a Managing Director in 2010. At the family company’s anniversary gala in 2018, its senior manager, Rudolf Hans Zillgith, announced the restructuring of the Management Board: He and Stephan Zillgith were joined by Eric Lefebvre and Johannes Günther, both of whom had been working in management positions at the company for many years, as members of the Management Board and shareholders of KRONEN.
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