Wirtschaftsregion Mainfranken

In Lower Franconia alone, there are around 19,500 skilled
crafts businesses with around 93,000 employees. In 2022, they
gen erated a turnover of 12.5 billion euros. With an average size
of five employees, the structures still feel like that of a family.
The focus is on a personal approach. In a world where it seems
that many things are becoming more and more impersonal and
superficial, that is worth a lot, real added value.
Information
The skilled crafts sector in Lower Franconia
(as of: 31/12/2022):
Businesses 19,556
Employees* 92,900
Apprentices 6,890
Turnover (in EUR million)** 12,550
Employees per business 4.8
Training quota
(share of apprentices
among all employees) 7.4%
Turnover per business (in EUR)* 641,747
*The data on employees and turnover (excluding B2
occupations) are based on the update of the evaluation
of the business register as of 31/12/2020 by the Bavarian
State Office for Statistics, estimates 2021-2022
**Nominal turnover, not price adjusted
Even if the effects of the combined crises have hit and affected the
skilled crafts sector, and individual companies, in very different
ways, the skilled crafts sector remains “the economic power next
door”, and therefore a strong mainstay of our economy. It is the
many small and medium-sized enterprises in the skilled crafts sector
that are the heart of the German economy.
Tradition and the future
The skilled crafts sector has always been an important driver of
innovation in our country. Its services and products shape our
everyday lives, in fact our whole life. Our society would not
function without the skilled crafts sector. Many skilled crafts
have been practised for centuries and still have their firmly
established place in society today. With new technologies come
new pro fessions. Here, the skilled crafts sector has a key position,
pro viding valuable services as a technology intermediary
as it installs, assembles, maintains and repairs. Many new technologies,
for example in the field of energy efficiency, can only
be implemented and made usable for consumers by the skilled
crafts sector. Efficient use of energy requires many approaches:
for example, skilled crafts companies ensure that buildings are
optimally insulated and consump tion is efficiently controlled.
By installing and putting renew able forms of energy into
operation, such as photovoltaics, heat pump technology or with
mini plants for combined heat and power, skilled crafts businesses
also enable their customers to generate their own energy.
And this is just one part of the diverse range of solutions that
the skilled crafts sector implements with regard to sustainability
and climate action. The urgency of many meas ures in these areas
and the central role of the skilled crafts sector have also recently
drawn more attention to the importance of this branch of the
economy.
The skilled crafts sector deserves appreciation!
Despite a higher profile and a spreading change in people’s views
of the sector, the skilled crafts sector is often still underestimated
and not widely appreciated. We therefore call on everyone
to show the skilled crafts sector the respect it deserves.
For what every single skilled crafts person does day in day out,
ensuring quality of life for people right there where they live.
As a Chamber of Skilled Crafts, we call for greater respect for
vo cational training. As vocational and academic education are
equally important for successful transformation in Germany.
This must be reflected in more non-material and material appreciation
for vocational education and training, which must
also be en shrined in law.
Only then can we shape a future society that brings more
ben efits for everyone, no matter what crisis the futur may
bring.
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