Märklin: signal for Simba
Marklin steams towards destination: One over by Simba nothing stands in the way, says council chief Georg Geiger. 98 percent of employees have signed labor contracts change.
Author: JOA SCHMID |
The negotiation poker between Göppinger Traditionsuntenehmen Märklin and Simba Dickie enters the decisive round, "One over by the Fürth Bobby Car manufacturer Simba-Dickie, nothing stands in the way", yesterday, boss Georg Geiger told the NWZ. In fact, 98 percent of the 480 people who signed in at the headquarters of the Stuttgarter Strasse amendment agreements, which would amount to a continuation of the house collective agreement for another five years, confirmed Geiger. With the written consent of the employee, smears compared to valid regional collective extrapolate, an important condition of Simba-Dickie is met. "We had expected and see the positive," it says Märklin trustee Michael Pluta. He anticipates the beginning of April with a decision. The toy manufacturer Simba Dickie would not comment on the negotiations.
With the takeover talks to play the collective agreements of the Märklin employees and the associated financial burdens for the buyer, an important role. Fürther Bobby Car manufacturers want to give his vows to "dream wedding of the toy industry" only if the employees spend at their headquarters in Göppingen part of the dowry. The Märklin company agreement, which was concluded in the course of insolvency in 2009, is to be extended beyond 2014 for another five years, was the claim of Simba Dickie, which met at the Göppingen IG Metall on deaf ears. Although the union rejects a takeover by Simba does not, however, insists on a gradual reduction of Märklin in the applicable collective labor contract. An extension of the collective bargaining agreement was not home to do with her.
In order not to jeopardize the takeover, Märklin had offered employees the change contracts that have now been signed by almost 100 per cent of the workforce.
"I see the future of Märklin optimistic," says Geiger, boss. For employees with the new contracts, no deterioration was not related. Losses during summer and Christmas money could by attaching to the company's success annual bonus to be compensated. Moreover, the contracts included a job security until 2019. Trustees also Pluta assessed positively the new contracts: "We think it's more than generous, the staff in Göppingen to guarantee the job for five years," said Pluta. "That's extraordinary." Now obviously missing is the knot of Fuerth.
Family company based in Fürth
The 56-year old entrepreneur Michael Sieber had begun in 1982 with his father as a wholesaler. Now counts his company Simba Dickie to the largest toy maker in the world. Now wants Sieber, who has been proven with the acquisition of renowned toy companies a knack to take the model train manufacturer Märklin.
Simba-Dickie has 3,700 employees worldwide and in 2012 made sales of approximately EUR 615 million. The company is Mattel and Lego, the number three on the German toy market. 2012 is celebrating its 40th Anniversary. Simba-Dickie maintains central offices in Nuremberg, in the center of the German toy industry, in Lavans / France and in Hong Kong.
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