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Growth by increasing process efficiency and digitalization - Lapp Group invests in Wroclaw
Another modern Business Services Center is being established in the capital of Lower Silesia. This time it will be opened by LAPP - one of the world's leading suppliers of solutions and products in the field of cable and connection technology.
LAPP is a leading global manufacturer and distributor of cables, connectors, and connection solutions. As a family-owned company with more than 5,500 employees, LAPP produces in 21 international manufacturing facilities and is active in over 80 countries worldwide. Lapp Group is headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany. Now, the connection technology specialist is opening a Business Services Center in Wroclaw, Poland.
This is a very valuable investment from the modern business services sector, which is so important to Wroclaw. At the same time, it is another example of an investor who, in addition to the manufacturing industry that has been developing in our agglomeration for years, is opening a business services center for the entire EMEA region and appreciates the qualified staff based on the academic nature of the city.
Magdalena Okulowska, president of President of the Wroclaw Agglomeration Development Agency
Scalability for Further Growth
LAPP's Wroclaw center is designed to increase process efficiency and drive digitalization and automation. Important transactional tasks in the areas of sales and finance will be centralized here. The newly established Lapp Business Services in Wroclaw aims to increase customer focus and lay the foundation for further growth.
We realized that we needed such a center to create synergies and scale efficient processes. This will allow us to reach a new level of customer focus and digitalization. These are the goals we have set in our corporate Strategy 2027.
Lutz Grotebrune, LAPP CFO for the region LA EMEA
Expert Hub to Leverage Automation and AI
Lapp Business Services will primarily support sales and finances processes in LAPP’s European sales companies. Among these tasks will be the management of incoming orders and receivables.
With establishment of this specialized expert center in Wroclaw, LAPP will take advantage of economies of scale, automation, and technologies such as artificial intelligence. Starting in January 2025, Lapp Business Services will begin operations.
Family Values with a Long Tradition
LAPP is a company that was founded by the Lapp family more than 60 years ago and is still 100 percent family-owned.
As a family business, we have clear values and know what makes us stronger. We are customer-oriented, family-oriented, innovative and focused on success. We can only live these values with committed and highly qualified employees who contribute with passion and a high sense of responsibility to the satisfaction of our customers and thus to the growth of LAPP.
Matthias Lapp, CEO of the Lapp Group
LAPP Products in the Himalayas and at Wimbledon
The company's success is based on the pioneering development presented by inventor Oskar Lapp in 1957. The ÖLFLEX® cable brand, which LAPP still manufactures and sells today, is the first industrially manufactured connection and control cable. Beyond this, LAPP's core market is mechanical and plant engineering.
Other important sales markets are the food industry, logistics, the energy sector, and mobility. But LAPP products are also used in very special places: for example, at an altitude of over 5,100 meters on a Himalayan expedition, in the center court at Wimbledon or in high-speed trains in South Korea. Last year, the company had consolidated annual sales of €1.92 billion.