Imbach News & Stories

The Imbach parent company Galliker was awarded the Watt d'Or 2025, a prestigious Swiss prize for energy excellence, on the evening of January 9, 2025. The award ceremony took place in Bern and honored the traditional family business for its pioneering innovations in the field of sustainable, future-oriented logistics. The prize was awarded specifically for the innovative electric power tunnel project at the Galliker headquarters in Altishofen (LU).

From the expansion of the ultra-modern LC Lucerne and the region's largest PV system to transport policy challenges and digital innovations: This year has challenged and advanced us on many levels. Find out more about the review of 2024 in the words of Managing Director Christian Kempter-Imbach in this article.

The year 2024 was characterized by progress, challenges and joint successes. With impressive loyalty, constructiveness and a clear view of the future, we were able to achieve a great deal. Thanks to sustainable thinking and the great commitment of our employees, customers and partners, we can now look back on the past year with pride. Many thanks to all of you - for the trust, the cooperation and the journey together. We wish you and your families a relaxing festive season, the best of health and a great start to a successful new year!

At Imbach, just like at our parent company Galliker, loyalty is our top priority. It is particularly important to us to recognize our long-serving employees who have made a decisive contribution to the company's success over the years. On 23 November 2024, Imbach's long-serving employees were also honored in a festive setting as part of the Galliker Group's traditional anniversary evening.

November is all about the future: in addition to ZEBI 2024 with the successful appearance of the Galliker Academy World, the national Future Day today also offered exciting insights for young prospective career starters. Six children of employees had the opportunity to look over their parents' shoulders at work and get to know the Imbach logistics world up close.

With its appearance at the ZEBI education fair in Central Switzerland, Galliker, Imbach's parent company, put the focus on people and attracted a great deal of interest from young people. An important sign for the future of the transport and logistics industry and the associated professions.

In a further step towards a sustainable energy supply, we were able to commission a state-of-the-art photovoltaic system at the Imbach headquarters in Schachen at the beginning of October. The new system has an impressive output of 1,156 kWp and produces around 1,204 MWh of electricity per year. This provides enough energy to supply around 256 households for a year.

Our new website is more user-friendly and tailored to the needs of customers, partners and interested parties. The revised structure simplifies navigation and ensures an intuitive user experience so that you can find the information you need quickly and easily.

As part of an article in Tagesanzeiger & Fokus.swiss, Peter and Rolf Galliker had the opportunity to talk about the "Future of Supply Chain" and thus also about the wide-ranging topic of sustainability. An exciting interview provides an insight into the mindset of the Galliker brothers, as well as their goals, strategies and assessment of the future of the transport industry.

Last week, the apprentices of the final year 2024 were honored at the Galliker apprenticeship graduation ceremony - including a total of 5 apprentices from Imbach. The 43 apprenticeship graduates were trained in a total of 17 different apprenticeships, which are divided into 6 different "Galliker Academies". 2024 resulted in 5 honorary mentions among all graduates.

On January 1, 2024, the building in Nebikon previously leased to Meier + Tobler was incorporated into our own operations as LC7 following extensive renovations - with the aim of not only using the existing space, but also continuously expanding the warehouse and logistics area. With the completion of the extension, we now have a total area of 16,000 m2 at our disposal in LC7.

We are delighted to welcome 40 new apprentices to Galliker and 7 new apprentices to Imbach! You will start your training period with two exciting introductory weeks, during which you will have the opportunity to get to know our company and settle into your new environment.

We are pleased to present our CSR Report 2023/2024. As a family business, we have been consciously committed to sustainability for many years. For us, sustainability means acting responsibly and consciously in all our activities and business areas, thinking long-term and treating the environment, customers, partners and employees with respect.

On Wednesday, July 3, the Galliker Innovation Day 2024 took place in Altishofen. Around 200 invited guests were given an insight into the Swiss family-owned company's commitment to sustainability, development and innovation through guided tours and various keynote speeches. Parallel to the actual event, the Designwerk Mega Charger, a battery storage system with a fast-charging station for electric trucks, was put into operation on the grounds of the Galliker headquarters. Culinary highlights at the flying lunch and an aperitif at the end of the event provided opportunities for personal exchanges and networking discussions.

After a construction period of just over two years, the first part of the new Imbach logistics center in Lucerne went into operation in October 2022.

15 years after the opening of the Galliker branch in the Ticino municipality of Sant'Antonino, the ground-breaking ceremony for the site's second logistics building took place on December 13, 2023. The new building will create an additional 7,700 square meters of logistics space in southern Switzerland - an essential step for the location, which acts as a hub on the north-south axis. The new logistics center is being built with a focus on sustainability and social responsibility, in line with the values of the family-owned company Galliker.