Last Friday (May 12, 2023), the management of Willi Schillig Polstermöbelwerke GmbH & Co. KG from Ebersdorf (Coburg district) filed an application for the opening of insolvency proceedings in self-administration at the Coburg district court. The traditional company announced this in a press release.
Business operations will continue without interruption and customers can also order and be supplied, as the message says. “The decision to go into self-administration with the company was one for us, both professionally and personally extremely difficult but unfortunately necessary measure“, the managing director Erik Stammberger is quoted as saying.
“Unfortunately, massively changed”: Managing director of Ebersdorfer furniture manufacturer comments on insolvency
one wants fight for the future of the company, according to Stammberger. “Unfortunately, the economic and social framework conditions have changed massively. Cost-covering production is no longer possible on the current basis.” W Schillig have in the past few years “with two lockdowns, significantly rising energy prices and exorbitantly skyrocketing commodity prices had to fight”. Currently one also records one “extreme reluctance to buy”.
“The seasonal curve makes it even more difficult, because in the warm months even less furniture is bought, the so-called So ‘summer slump’ is yet to come”, the traditional company continues. “The still unresolved issues with regard to a secure energy supply and geopolitical uncertainties depress the mood additionally.” In the coming weeks, “a comprehensive restructuring concept will be worked on in cooperation with all those responsible,” it is said. In the Coburg district, a bakery chain only closed all branches after bankruptcy at the end of April.
The current 230 employees at the Frohnlach site received insolvency money until the end of July. In any case, one willpersonnel adjustments have to do” as well as “streamline processes”, says Stammberger. “My The whole family has always been passionate about it for three generationsbecause our heart beats for sofas”, the managing director is quoted as saying. The renovation process – so the claim – should “be a success”. Family business W. Schillig was own information Founded in 1949 as a basket maker and has sofas, loungers and armchairs produced at several locations.
