Each of the third, the Baker and the butcher, and gave up since 2008 News

more and more bakers and butchers to hear. In the past decade, the number of holdings fell by a good third. Not only is the competition from discounters, should be responsible for it.

out of ten years, about 30 percent of the bakers and butchers in Germany have disappeared Within. The data of the Central Association of German crafts (ZDH).

"For several years in the bakery and butchery are opened every year and more companies, as new," said Herbert Dohrmann, spokesman for the Association of the professional associations of Food and crafts. Around 15.337 bakeries were in the 2008 nationwide in the skilled trades listed, the number dropped by the end of 2018 on 10.926. In 1998, there were still 21.406 farms.

the Butchers are becoming less and less. Thus, the number decreased in the last ten years, according to the CIO of 18.320 on 12.897. 20 years ago, even 25.492 companies have been registered.

decreases, The number of Butchers.

complaint about bureaucracy and discounters-competition

Not only bureaucracy and competition from discounters and supermarkets are the two major branches of the Food crafts are a burden. Especially the shortage of skilled workers and the decline in interest of school leavers in a teaching companies are causing concern. "The Problem of the lack of qualified personnel and young professionals, from which a new Generation of shareholders would have to," said Dohrmann.

According to the Federal Institute for vocational education and training, there was lack of bakeries in the past year, with 906, not allocated training places to young. In the case of the butchers 894 trainees were missing.

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