The manual work remains - despite digitization
1. You were in a responsible position for the GC Group near Bremen for ten years. In 2018 you went back home - to the Upper Bavarian Markt Schwaben to Wilhelm Gienger KG. What new points of view and / or ways of working have you brought home with you?
Mahr: It is of course a huge wealth of experience that you can take from the management of a group of companies with various service functions and then implement it in an operational company. There is a much better understanding of decision-making structures, which I can then communicate and implement with restraint in the operational society.
2. The shortage of young people and skilled workers is also a major concern for the sanitary / heating / air-conditioning and electrical industry. Does digitization offer opportunities to make work in this industry more attractive?
Mahr: Digitization offers many interesting opportunities in our industry, both in trade and in the craft sector. At the end of the supply chain, everything has to be installed. That remains a big challenge.
3. From your personal experience: Does controlling benefit from the digitization of the sales channel?
Mahr: I would rather say that digitization brings new challenges to controlling.
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About Benedikt Mahr, Wilhelm Gienger KG nd the GC Group
Until 2018, Benedikt Mahr was part of the GC Group's management team and therefore settled in northern Germany. The GC Group brings together more than 100 owner-managed and medium-sized wholesalers. Among them the Gienger Group, the largest subsidiary in the GC Group.
Due to the "rapid growth" of the Gienger Group - according to the Gienger Group's press release dated March 21, 2018, this was equally the case in Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, the Alpine countries and Eastern Europe - Benedikt Mahr returned from Northern Germany to Markt Schwaben in 2018 to concentrate more on his task as personally liable partner of Wilhelm Gienger KG.
“After a good seven years in the far north, I am drawn back home with such an attractive professional challenge. If there is an opportunity to bring work and family into perfect harmony, you have to take advantage of it”, said Benedikt Mahr on his return to southern Germany two years ago.
Since then, Benedikt Mahr has been responsible at Gienger KG for Eastern Europe, Austria and Switzerland and furthermore as a representative of the GC Group in various committees and associations.