As part of its overall strategy, Heidelberg will strengthen the Gallus Group sites in Switzerland and Germany through targeted investments and division into competence centres.
The company says its next step will see it reorganising the headquarters in St Gallen, Switzerland. It will develop it into a competence centre for digital label printing. To this end, it will open a new customer demonstration centre at the site at the end of the year as the “Gallus Experience Centre”.
Heidelberg says it will accompany its digital printing portfolio expansion with innovations in equipment, service, software and ink. A total of around 160 people work in St. Gallen, including business and research and development management as well as finance, sales, service, marketing and purchasing.
Dr. Ludwin Monz, chief executive of Heidelberg, says, “With targeted investments in the Gallus Group, we want to gain further momentum in the growing label market.
“The reorientation of our site in St. Gallen into a competence centre for digital label printing underlines the high strategic importance for Heidelberg in the packaging sector. We welcome, that the commitment of entrepreneurs Marcel and Roger Baumer will create an innovative environment in St. Gallen from which we can also benefit.”
Baumer entrepreneurs from St. Gallen develop property into open industrial and technology campus with Gallus as anchor tenant
As part of the reorganisation of the site, St. Gallen entrepreneurs Marcel and Roger Baumer has taken over the entire area in St. Gallen with around 20,000 square metres.
The brothers are the fourth-generation owners of the Hälg Group and have acquired the site privately. Gallus will continue to use the required space as the main tenant in this area in the future. The parties have signed a purchase and long-term lease agreement and Heidelberg expects the transaction to be completed in the first quarter of the 2022/23 financial year. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price.
Roger Baumer says, “The Gallus area is set to develop into an open campus for companies and institutions that are helping to shape the future and strengthen St. Gallen as a workplace. We are delighted that the Gallus Group, with its headquarters and Digital Campus, is the anchor tenant of the site.”
