Bakery

A bakery is a company that are produced in the bakery products such as bread, rolls, pretzels, coffee, pastries or cakes, sometimes connected salesrooms are also called bakery.

Unlike designation as back- shop or similar must a trained master baker to be responsible in a bakery so designated, is also the entry in the trades for bakeries mandatory. The corresponding profession is that of the baker, the sale of the bakery and the specialist seller.

Bakeries are counted depending on the size of craft or food to the food industry. They can be the size divided into:

• Small bakeries - they produce small amounts of baked goods that they sell themselves (usually in the bakery shop).
• Medium-sized bakeries - a part of their production is automated. These bakeries usually supply a larger number of (mostly self-operated ) bakery shops in a limited area.
• United Bakeries - almost all of their production is automated. The products are mostly sold by supermarkets and discount stores.
• Relatively new is the business model of " self-service bakery " (eg, the franchise chain baked goods ), which are purely legal but not to bakeries, because they are not registered in the trades and do not employ a master baker in the rule.

The production area of the bakery is the bakery.

Emergence of the Bakers

In the regions that are now considered Germany, the profession of baker is known at least since the time of Charlemagne ( 768-814 ). At the time, mostly serfs worked on Fronöfen or monastery servants to Klosteröfen. The growth of cities was formed in the 10th century, the baker profession as "free" profession out. The professional title of " Beck" (short for becker ) or " Pfister " was used ( from the Latin " pistor "). Initially possessed the fewest baker its own oven. Your goods therefore they baked in the city's own furnaces, in which the baker had to alternate.

Bakery dying

Due to the increasing competition from mass production in industrial bakeries and frozen goods for home baking in the self-service bakeries retail baker in Germany, but also in other industrialized countries is threatened with extinction. Lag at many home bakers ten years ago, the daily bread sale at 3000 pieces, this is now sometimes only in 1000. Many chains churn and then ship them, self-service bakeries are largely supplied with frozen goods from abroad, where labor costs are lower.

In Austria, a concentration process to larger bakeries will take place, on the other hand, smaller bakeries claim by regional delivery service or specialization on specific quality goods.

Statistics

In Germany there are 14,594 small-scale farms and grossed 30,000 branches, together 44,500 bakery shops. They employ 293 300 people worldwide, including 33,000 apprentices. The total turnover of 12.93 billion Euros without VAT. On average, each company has 20.1 employees who achieve 886,000 euros in annual sales (as of 20xx ).

The sales breakdown by company size has continued to focus on large companies:

• The 3 % small group of bakeries with over five million Euros annual turnover generated a turnover of about 60%.
• Establishments with 500,000 to five million Euros annual turnover have a sales share of 28%.
• The bakeries with less than 500,000 euros a year (about 71 % of all businesses ) accounted for roughly 12 % of total sales.

(As of December 31, 2010)