Macher, Manager, Mosbacher \u2013 anyone looking for a beautiful spot in Gelsenkirchen for a business success story will inevitably end up at Marina Graf Bismarck. The harbour district is home to the Gelsenkirchen-based St\u00f6lting Group. Both are inextricably linked to the ongoing regeneration process in the city and the rise of the family business to become an impressive service provider with national appeal.<\/p>\n In the marina, dozens of boats bob up and down at the jetties in the glistening sunlight. Next door, on the Rhine-Herne Canal, rowers stroke their oars with powerful strokes, while cyclists, walkers and other leisure seekers indulge in cake, ice cream and cool drinks on the terraces of the restaurants along the shore. High above the water, Hans Mosbacher and Stephan Kulbatzki welcome visitors to a light-flooded, ultra-modern conference room. Mosbacher is the managing partner and Kulbatzki the commercial director of the St\u00f6lting Group. Both are beaming, not so much because of the wonderful summer weather, but more because of the latest group figures and business successes.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201eWe have doubled our turnover,\u201c announces Hans Mosbacher. His pride in what has been achieved is unmistakable. In 2021, the group's turnover was \u20ac361 million \u2013 a record result. In 2018, it was \u20ac180 million. And in the intervening period, the curve has also shown a steep upward trend: \u20ac195 million and \u20ac310 million respectively. And that's despite the coronavirus crisis. A beneficiary of the pandemic? The 64-year-old from Gelsenkirchen emphatically rejects this conclusion. \u201eThat would be too simplistic,\u201c says Mosbacher. After all, the coronavirus pandemic has dried up a significant source of income for him for a long time due to the ban on visits to football stadiums and the cancellation of major events such as concerts and trade fairs (Essen Grugapark, Hanover). It is important to note that St\u00f6lting's business model is based on three pillars: the cleaning sector, security services and personnel services. Hordes of \u201ecleaners and attendants on buses and trains have helped to ensure that we all got through the pandemic safely and well,\u201c Mosbacher also recalls the countless workers who, among others, literally paved the (disinfected) ground for doctors, nurses and carers to keep the infection under control. \u201eApplause, recognition,\u201c Mosbacher asks rhetorically, \u201eunfortunately, I have seen and heard little of that.\u201c Hans Mosbacher \u2013 Citizen of the Ruhr Area 2020 \u2013 finds it highly regrettable that the cleaning industry is hardly appreciated. \u201eThis trade is more than just wielding a scrubbing brush; the spectrum is broad, technically demanding and offers very good career opportunities.\u201c The 64-year-old should know, after all, he himself started an apprenticeship as a building cleaner at the age of 14, became a master craftsman in his early 20s and shortly afterwards started his own business \u2013 outside his parents\u201e company. \u201cI didn't want any competition within the family,\" says the entrepreneur, explaining his decision. He has two siblings, so he preferred clear boundaries to possible disputes about who would be given preference over the others.<\/p>\n Working your way up is part of the company's DNA. And a keen sense of what the market wants. \u201eWe offer services from a single source,\u201c says Hans Mosbacher, who began adding new business areas to his father's cleaning company at the turn of the millennium. By then, he had already gained a wealth of experience and sold the \u201elargest cleaning company in the M\u00fcnsterland region\u201c \u2013 his own.<\/p>\n Today, the group employs a total of 14,400 people at 40 locations in Germany, from which a good 1,200 vehicles swarm out to customers in all directions. St\u00f6lting has just landed its latest coup: \u201eWe have won Bayern Munich as a customer,\u201c Stephan Kulbatzki and Hans Mosbacher reveal with delight. What makes the Gelsenkirchen-based company particularly proud is the fact that the deal did not require a long and costly acquisition process \u2013 door-to-door canvassing, to use a metaphor \u2013 but that the German football industry leader approached the Gelsenkirchen-based company itself. The St\u00f6lting managing director comments: \u201eEveryone who is responsible for cleanliness in football stadiums now knows us.\u201c For St\u00f6lting, the Bayern deal is a real accolade. After all, \u201eno other company is now so closely linked to so many professional clubs\u201c as the Gelsenkirchen-based company: In addition to the subscription champion, its customers include FC Schalke 04, Borussia Dortmund, VfL Wolfsburg and Fortuna D\u00fcsseldorf, as well as Wuppertaler SV, RW Erfurt, SV Waldhof Mannheim, SGS Essen, Alba Berlin and Chemnitz 99ers (both basketball). For the next three years, 50 security guards will be monitoring an assigned stadium sector at Munich's Allianz Arena, and a larger commitment, such as at Schalke, where St\u00f6lting is completely responsible with its security and steward team, is not out of the question. The Black and Yellows secured the local cleaning contract in 2017, and the contract has now been extended until 2027. The Royal Blues signed the contract in 2019, which runs until 2029 \u2013 but here it is a package deal that includes cleaning and security. Mosbacher attributes these successes to several factors: a continuous expansion strategy that \u201ehas led to investments in the hundreds of millions over the past 18 years through the opening of new locations\u201c and the early expansion of business areas since 2000. \u201eThe market demanded both cleaning and security services at the same time,\u201c recalls the 64-year-old. Whether hospitals, airports, football stadiums, trade fairs, banks, hotels, rail and public transport, or craft and industrial businesses \u2013 St\u00f6lting employees can be found almost everywhere today. The cleaning service was something of a door opener, as Mosbacher describes in retrospect. \u201eOur quality in the sector has built trust, enabling us to gradually expand our activities and contribute our expertise.\u201c For Mosbacher, it was also a \u201eclear advantage\u201c in business negotiations that his company is owner-managed, unlike many of its competitors. \u201eWe have consistency in our management-level contacts, whereas others have high turnover.\u201c This allows us to get to the point more quickly and directly. St\u00f6lting is also not afraid of entrepreneurial risk. For example, the group wanted to set up Europe's largest high-performance laboratory for PCR corona express tests with Ingenium Labs. Capacity: 140,000 analyses per day. A \u201eworld first,\u201c as was grandly announced \u2013 hype is part of the business. The media hype was correspondingly huge. But the course of the pandemic threw a spanner in the works, and in the end, the marina quickly backtracked. Check. Get up, wipe your mouth, move on \u2013 the Mosbachers take the same approach as footballers.<\/p>\n [Source: Article in WAZ Gelsenkirchen, Wednesday, 1 June 2022, Nikos Kimerlis]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Interview with Hans Mosbacher Maker, manager, Mosbacher - anyone looking for a nice place in Gelsenkirchen for a business success story will inevitably end up at the Graf Bismarck marina. The harbour quarter is the headquarters of the Gelsenkirchen-based St\u00f6lting Group. Both are inextricably linked to the city's ongoing regeneration process and the rise of the family business to become an impressive service provider [...]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":12371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nSt\u00f6lting Group closes 2021 with record turnover<\/h3>\n
Record champions Bayern Munich as a new customer<\/h3>\n