Many deutscheHandwerksbetriebe have problems in shaping generational change. “In next five to six years re are 200,000 companies, mitigate handing over,” says Holger Schwannecke, Generalsekretärdes Central Association of German Crafts. “This is einRiesenma for Chambers of Crafts.” Especially companies without heirs, who could take over operation, are increasingly facing problems.
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According to figures from Bavarian Chamber of Crafts day, many trades are zunehmendüberaltert. For example, average age for installers or Heizungsbauern is 50 years, and even 53 for metalworkers. Half of holdings are still taken over by owners ‘ children or anderenFamilienangehörigen, but one-quarter of companies are Employees or externally. ” If you make yourself too late or don’t worry at all about DenFortbestand of a holding, it can even endanger DieExistenz in worst case, “says Bavarian craftsman President FranzXaver Peteranderl.
Especially in rural regions, where population is shrinking and eswenige newcomers, it is difficult to regulate succession. ” We have a whole range of companies that sit in LändlichenRäumen, and owners say: Who wants to come here? “says Holger Schwannecke. For example, in Bavaria 23,000 farms are in early generational change, whereby according to Craftsman President Peteranderlbei 5,000 a solution has to be found quickly.
According to opinion of artisanal officials, digitisation offers new opportunities to secure future of companies, as it allows craftsmen auchaußerhalb ir home region to take orders. “The’s a great opportunity to get handover better,” MeintSchwannecke. DieSuche will be wirdauch main me at International trade Fair, which takes place under motto “craftsmanship: The Next Generation” in Munich, according to suitable successors.
