Company History

1945 Immediately after the end of the war, the company used the “Maria Theresien Authorization Certificate” to trade in all kinds of goods. Inventive in times of need, the company deals with an astonishing range of goods. It ranges from brooms and shoe paste to bundt cake and marzipan masses to liquid soap and needles.

Austria suffers severely from the consequences of the war. A flour distribution agency is set up to distribute flour. Glatz was entrusted with the organization; the Viennese Bakers’ Cooperative for Acquisitions and Businesses took care of the implementation. To do this, a complicated card index must be set up and managed. At the same time, the company is also responsible for other foods.

In 1947 Ernst Weiner, only 28 years old at the time, was granted individual power of attorney in recognition of his performance and loyalty. Joined as an apprentice in 1933, immediately after the war he took the fate of the company into his hands and successfully led the company through the first post-war years. In 1949, the top management expanded into a trio: Chief accountant Raimund Klotz was also appointed authorized signatory. He has been part of Glatz since 1915 and is one of the veterans.

After the aid supplies from the USA ran out, the grain business changed: Glatz began to import grain itself. Because domestic production is far from being large enough to meet demand, and Austrian grain is qualitatively inferior to the industrially produced varieties from overseas. Business with international flood wholesalers , especially in the USA and Canada, is carried out at Glatz through the foreign department. Austria imports up to 900,000 tons of grain annually in the post-war years.

In addition to foreign business, there is also growing domestic business: also because the competing cooperatives are broadening their range, Glatz is expanding the business fields. The company now also sells soy meal, oil cake, fish and meat meal for animal feed, fertilizers and increasing quantities of seeds.

On September 1, 1950, Glatz had the “Agrar-Speicher-Betriebs-Gesellschaft mbH ” entered in the commercial register. The purpose of the new company is to operate the Rhenus and Hansa storage silos in the Danube port of Vienna-Albern, which are under Soviet management. Glatz stores the large quantities of grain that come from overseas in the storage facilities.

Paul Bruck from Leopoldsdorf became an important strategic partner for Konrad Glatz in 1952: he founded Paul Bruck KG with the son of a regional product retailer family. This is building 15 locations in Marchfeld and northern Burgenland. Over the years, Glatz increased the shares in the joint company until Paul Bruck KG became fully owned by Glatz.

Glatz covers the entire Austrian market from Vienna and Lower Austria. With newly hired representatives, the company comes into business from a new office location in Wels with mills and other customers as far as Tyrol. Glatz representatives in Styria and Carinthia also work systematically and successfully in the south of Austria.

In 1960 and 1970 Glatz built two conveniently located large silos with 40,000 tons of storage capacity in Korneuburg directly on the Danube.

In the 1960s, a separate department for dried fruits, rice and canned food was created in the company, which in the 1980s was already able to book a quarter of total sales.

In 2005 Glatz opened an office in the center of Graz and traded in Hungarian and Styrian grain, some of which went to Slovenia and Italy.

In 2006, Fertlogistik entered the fruit trade and mainly exported apples – South Tyrol is an important growing area – to fruit processors in neighboring Austria, Germany and the Benelux region.

After the death of Ernst Weiner, Jakob Glatz took over the majority of the shares of the Weiner family in the Agrar-Speicher-Betriebs-Gesellschaft in 2009 . The Glatz company becomes a shareholder to a lesser extent. The subsidiary specializing in warehousing, which offers and manages storage capacities for 100,000 tonnes of grain, is establishing itself as an independent storage and transport logistics service provider. 

In 2009 Jakob Glatz decided to shorten the official company name from “Friedrich Glatz Handels-GmbH & Co KG” to the simpler “Glatz GmbH und Co KG”.

In 2010 Glatz presented itself in a new appearance with a new logo.

In the years 2008 to 2010 alone, the company will invest one million euros in the renewal of its infrastructure. After many years of good cooperation in the field of pesticide transport , Glatz took an 8.3 percent stake in LLT Lannacher Lager- und Transport GmbH.

The Glatz silos and the agricultural storage silos for the storage and handling of grain and oilseeds have been GMP + certified since 2011 . 

In 2011, the Hungarian subsidiary of the Glatz Group succeeded in listing Glatz’s own brands Farmer’s Country and Excelsior in the large supermarket chains Auchan and Cora. From then on, Glatz Hungary Kft . an important food broker in the Hungarian food trade .  

2012 is the year of its 120th anniversary. For the first time, Glatz is organizing the Marchfelder Agrar Tag in Schloss Orth. The Stripfing silo location is being revitalized, and the Untersiebenbrunn location with the largest silo in Marchfeld will become the central control center for the branches. From now on, part of the food range will be sold in the branches at regionally favorable prices.   

In 2013, the brand agency Olivier GmbH is taken over, which from that point on will be handling the sale of confectionery brands as a new subsidiary . 

Also in 2013 founds Glatz with Fertlogistik sp.z . a Polish subsidiary for fertilizer wholesaling.

In mid-April 2013, Glatz acquired the canned and rice business from F. Url & Co GmbH , a subsidiary of RWA. The products from the field of canned fish, fruit and vegetables as well as rice fit perfectly into the existing Glatz range and represent a further expansion of the brand and product portfolio. 

The former F.Url brands “Every Day” and ” Your Choice” will be integrated into the existing range of “Excelsior” in the course of 2014. The range of canned fish, fruit and vegetables is given a uniform, modern look.

In June 2016, Glatz took over Márker Distribution Kft. In Hungary. Like Glatz Hungary Kft., The company sells international food to Hungarian retailers and Horeca . The Glatz company has been importing the Nuri cult sardines from Portugal since the 1950s. Due to a longer fishing ban in Portugal, the products will disappear from the shelves between 2015-2017. In order to ensure the continued existence of the brand, Mr. Glatz bought the historic producer Pinhais in 2016. Nuri is thus returning to the Austrian market.

2018 is the year of restructuring of the group of companies in order to optimize capacities, competencies and activities. In the course of this, the two Hungarian companies merge into one company, all silos in Marchfeld and Burgenland are sold and the company Glatz GmbH and Co KG is renamed Glatz GmbH.