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ahp.magazine: Against this background, are you satisfied ployees in such a way. On the other hand, we all know very well
with 2022? that only if we can keep our customers happy will we be able to
CME: We are very satisfied with the sales achieved. We were able pay our salaries in the future.
to increase well and achieve a plus of turnover of 8% across all
AHP Merkle companies. That is a great result. But the earnings ahp.magazine: You can see that the employees of AHP
leave a lot to be desired in 2022. We refused to increase our prices Merkle also have a lot of “common sense”!
for a very long time. But in the end, we had to be reasonable here One last question: On April 01 , 2023, AHP Merkle will cele-
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as well, and we decided on a temporary energy cost surcharge of brate its 50th birthday. What are the plans?
3.9%. And this after we had not raised prices for over 4 years. CME: I am very pleased that we will celebrate the anniversary on
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March 30 , 2023, with an evening event in the VIP-rooms of SC
ahp.magazine: Why so cautious? Everyone is raising prices, Freiburg and March 31 , 2023, with an in-house exhibition at the
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so AHP Merkle can do the same! headquarters in Gottenheim. We will invite selected customers,
CME: We don’t always want to do everything just because every- suppliers, and business partners to this event. Unfortunately, we
one is doing it. At the beginning of 2022, it really looked like we have far too many customers to be able to invite everyone.
could do it without a price increase. And that’s what we would re- But I am making an offer here: Whoever personally writes me
ally have preferred. Unfortunately, the number of incoming orders an email at c.merkle@ahp.de and tells me by March 1 , 2023, at
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then fell somewhat. Then the calculation no longer worked out. the latest why he/she absolutely wants/must be there, will get an
AHP Merkle employees made a significant contribution in 2022 extra chance from me. We will select the 5 best/most imaginative
and had to accept that we could not pay them a Christmas bonus. emails from all submissions. These will each receive an entry to
Because of our cautious approach. After all, we experience this our evening event on March 30 , 2023.
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ourselves almost daily, that prices are raised. And: Someone pays
the bill in the end! ahp.magazine: We are very excited about that. We will re-
port on the anniversary and much more in the next maga-
zine. Thank you very much for the interview.
ahp.magazine: There we go again with “you can’t spend
more money than you have!”
CME: Exactly. And we are also sorry that this is affecting our em-

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