1925 | Husband and wife Eugen and Anna Gatter founded the MACK artisan bakery. Back then, the company was known as 'Bäckerei, Lebensmittel, Kolonialwaren und Kohlenhandlung Eugen Gatter' and was based in Aufhausen, a small village close to Bopfingen. Eugen Gatter, a master baker, ran the company until 1955 when he handed it over to his daughter Else. She married baker and pastry chef Hans Mack from the town of Schwäbisch Hall, and continued the business with him under the name of 'Bäckerei Mack und Gatter'. | 1983 | 58 years later, Hans-Günther Mack became the third generation of MACKs to take over the business and uphold the family tradition while building on the company's earlier success. Since then, the business has been run purely as a bakery and pastry shop. In the same year, the first additional branch opened as a specialist shop on the Marktplatz in Bopfingen. Prior to this, there was just the grocery and bakery store attached to the bakehouse in Aufhausen, and a mobile baker who supplied the surrounding villages. | 1986 | The bakery business got a new name: Backstube Mack. This |
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| was also the year in which the second branch opened, in the EGM centre in Nördlingen, making it necessary to expand production in Aufhausen for the first time. | 1990 | The piece of land neighbouring the Aufhausen production site was purchased, along with the Schmiedmühle mill. This created the space for the necessary extension to the bakehouse so that product capacity could be increased. | 1993 | Hans-Günther Mack overturned the ban on Sunday baking with his opposition via the radio and television. He became known as the 'bread roll rebel' in Germany. | 1995 | The first bakery-cum-café opened in Aelen and immediately became a favourite meeting place locally for coffee and cakes. | 1999 | MACK gets into shape for the third millennium: after six months of building work, the bakehouse moved to new production facilities in Westhausen in September 2000. Since 2003, master bakers Mack have also been suppliers to the upmarket hospitality trade throughout Germany. |
Today the company has around 530 employees in production, administration and sales in 40 outlets. |
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