A hundred-year balance Annual Report 2010 - Uzin Utz AG

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Striving for success and stability »» Dr. Utz, you can look back today, as the third generation, on a century of company history. You yourself have worked for the company since 1978. Is there anything such as a key memory in your personal company biography? »» Well, there have been of course many such moments in which decisive events have occurred. When I joined the company fresh from university, I quickly began to concern myself seriously with the difficult subject of the environment and the world of business. My dissertation was entitled “Environmental change and company policy”. I was already very aware of this subject, and had to admit that at that time, immediately after the growth phase of the 1970’s, UZIN had not yet tackled this problem. I therefore soon devoted myself intensively to these issues, together with the optimisation of sales and marketing, which up to that time had no outstanding priority in the company. »» What in your opinion are the advantages of a family-run company in today’s times? »» A family-run company, even of our order of size, has many advantages, at least as long as the family is in agreement with regard to the company objectives and management. In our case, that was never in question. The main advantages for me lie in the possibility of long-term strategic planning and orientation, with the accent on continuity. This also has a consequent effect with regard to the stability of a qualified personnel base, because the sustainability aspect is also determined by the degree of loyalty and motivation of a company’s employees. Here one can of course fulfil something like a role-model function, when one has been running the company for 20 years and longer. This is not usually the case with purely management-run companies.” »» On the subject of role-models: Who has influenced your decisions in life particularly strongly, and what advice would you give to somebody founding a company today? »» For me there have been many people who have impressed me in a particular way, and whose performance I have attempted to emulate, whether at university or somewhere else, although not in the sense that there was any particular great role-model for me. This is probably also due to the fact that I always wanted to maintain my intellectual independence, and was fortunately able to do so. This is also the advice that I would give to company founders: To believe in oneself and one’s mission, to pursue it long-term and consistently, even in the face of all possible resistance, and not give it up. Success then comes almost automatically. 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 Albert Einstein receives the Nobel Prize in physics. Georg Utz acquires the property Fischergasse 6, Ulm as a production site. Peak of inflation in Germany (U.S. $ 1 = 4 trillion marks). First international football match Germany – Italy (0 : 1). First public TV shows in Germany, England and the USA. 10 Interview
1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 Charleston is the dance of the year. The „Buna“ called fully synthetic rubber was invented in Germany. Lina Radke gets an Olympic gold medal in the 800-meter run as the first German. Black Friday on the Wall Street. Max Schmeling is world champion in boxing. Interview 11
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