1.Company Description2.Subject of Activities
3.Company Structure
4.Company History
5.Present Company Progress
6.Company Shops
7.Center of Practical Training
8.Restoration of Old Frames
9.Contacts
Lira
Website :
www.lira.cz
Contents :
1.Company Description
2.Subject of Activities
3.Company Structure
4.Company History
5.Present Company Progress
6.Company Shops
7.Center of Practical Training
8.Restoration of Old Frames
9.Contacts
LIRA, picture moulding and frame manufacturer, is a Czech legal entity and joint-stock Company, established on March 18, 1991, with its residency in Český Krumlov, Tovární 117, Czech Republic. Main activity is concentrated on production of picture mouldings, frames and framing. Lira has dominant position on the market of moulding and frame production in Czech Republic.
In last two years Lira was added to the list
of a hundred best corporations in Czech Republic.
Company is part of concolidated corporation Larson-Juhl International L.L.C.,
United States of America.
Company Management
| Management: | |||
| Chairman | Ing. František Jenerál | ||
| Member | Ing. Jaromír Nekovařík | ||
| Member | Bill Trimarco | ||
| Member | Ing. Jan Kitzberger | ||
| Authorized Agent | Ing. Jan Kitzberger | ||
| Supervisory Board: | |||
| Chairman | Bradley Goodsow | ||
| Member | Henricus Liebers | ||
| Member | Radek Šrot | ||
 | Picture mouldings production forms approximately 75% of the entire Company's manufacture |
| Picture frames form 7% of the entire Company's production |
| Framing procedures form 10% of the entire Company's manufacture |
| Wooden briquettes production forms 4% of the entire Company's manufacture |
| Remain is allotted to the production of other wooden objects, particularly industrial laths and frame repair |
>From the technological point of view it is a self-contained program. It commences with the choice and purchase of wooden material. The entire technology, starting with the production of lumber and leading through prismatic shape formation, profiling, grounding, ornamenting, gilding, up to finishing of mouldings and frames, ends with the sale of finished products. The Company manufactures over 3,000 various kinds of mouldings and more than 400 kinds of picture frames. Approximately two thirds are supplied to 35 countries all over the world and one third is reserved for the local market in the Czech Republic. Recently LIRA has been directly supplying its own products to the markets of all customer countries without any intermediaries.
From the point of view of organization, the Lira Joint-stock Company consists of plants. The manufacturing premises are located in Český Krumlov and Horní Planá. The Plant 01 in Český Krumlov produces picture mouldings and performs many distinctive functions for the entire Company. The Plant 02 in Horní Planá manufactures picture frames and thin picture mouldings, repair frames and industrial laths. Production continues in framing plant which supplies company shops on eight places in Czech Republic (see below).
New section 06 Realization works from the half of 1999 and it considerably changes moulding distribution in Czech Republic.
The Plant 05 in Český Krumlov manufactures prisms for the entire Company. Plant 07, Company Headquarters, performs managing, financing, accounting, controlling, personnel, payroll, technological, development procedures, investments, sale and supply for the entire Company. The Plant 08 - maintenance - takes care of maintenance for most of the Company.
The holiday cottage - Plant 10 - located in Horní Planá, offers recreational possibilities for employees and other people. The Company is involved in cooperation with the Center of Practical Training through the educational program for apprentices with the subject of study as Framing Master - Gilding.
The manufacturing of mouldings and frames in Český Krumlov has more than a hundred-year old tradition. The works of joiners and gilding masters were already performed here in 1871. The first workshop of moulding and frame production was established in South Bohemia in 1859, when the entrepreneur Emanuel Furth began his frame and other various object manufacture in České Budějovice. The next company, named Taubl and Faber, arose a couple of years later, and both firms produced gilded objects and frames. Both firms employed from 61 to 63 workers. In 1860 a workshop was founded in Český Krumlov, at a time when the workers of Schonbauer performed restorations and constructions of altars and produced other objects for the interior equipment of churches. The pieces of land on the periphery of Domoradice village were bought by Ludvík and Leonard Schonbauer in 1880. On that location they build up a plant to manufacture picture mouldings and frames. The plant was put into operation in the second half of 1881, when that new trade was entered into the Commercial Register of the District. In the year 1893 Schonbauer employed 98 workers. The firm exported its own goods to all corners of Europe, to the Orient, Africa and Australia as well around 1893.
The period 1900 - 1945 was distinguished by a deep crisis and production stagnation with an incessant lack of essential funds. In the year 1915 Julius Tschunko purchased part of Schonbauer's property and imposed the executive process. In August of 1945 the plant entered into the state administration.
A fire broke out in the factory on October 25, 1947. The tremendous devastation had caused a loss valued at 2.5 million crowns. The renovation of the factory seemed to be impossible, but due to the efforts of the employees themselves, the entire work of reconstruction was completed in a few months.
In 1948 the factory became part of the National Enterprise Koh-i-noor, pencil production L. et C. Hardthmunth, České Budějovice, and three months later part of the National Enterprise Tofa Algrechtice (later Jablonec nad Nisou). The Company already had 196 employees in 1957 and was the biggest factory of its kind in the Český Krumlov Region.
In 1958 the factory created part of the National Enterprise Jihočeské dřevařské závody, České Budějovice, and on January 1, 1961 existed with the trade name Lira under the management of the Regional National Committee in Český Krumlov.
The building of a new Plant in Domoradice in 1967 and gradually the completeness of a Plant in Horní Planá, which was performed in three steps in course of the 70's and 80's and finished in the year 1995, were considered to be the significant moments for the development of the Company.
In 1991 the founder changed the form of company - it became joint-stock company which was privatized in 1994. Major stock-holder is multinational corporation Larson-Juhl from USA.
The construction of a new production hall and new drying chambers in the base Plant in Český Krumlov took place during the year 1996. In the context of full operation many organizational changes related with new machine installations were performed. A boiler house for wooden waste was completed at the Plant in Horní Planá. A project to filter the air and exhaust the sawdust started and was finished in the middle of 1997. Repairing of scantling machine passed in 1997 and wooden briquettes production (using logging waste) has started.
Till 1999 consider part of products distribution (intended for inland market) was realized through wholesaler's. Nowadays we provide final users, picture-framers and glaziers, with our products directly from the distribution stock in Česky Krumlov.
This step was preceded with construction of new distribution store and creating of offered assortment including cca 400 kinds of mouldings, frames and wide assortment of framing technologies and materials.
Direct supplies enable picture-framers to reduce their own stocks of moulding ledges and enlarge the range of offered goods. Service "chop"(=cut frame arms) and "join" (finished frames) is also an innovation.
It is, except currently stored products, also available (with specific conditions (= minimal quantity) to order some special assortment, which can be manufactured in LIRA as a custom-made product.
Detailed catalogue of our products is available on the company Internet sites www.lira.cz.
The Lira Český Krumlov Joint-stock Company's Representative Shops serve as sale and made-to-measure sections, bringing up the products and services of an important industrial regional enterprise into the form of final goods (particularly picture frames and framed artistic masterpieces) closer to inhabitants and a wide visiting public.
There is an immediate connection to the manufacturing procedure providing a unified offer of framing services - framing upon request based on an exhibited collection of picture moulding samples, canvas repair, pasparts production, special surface treatment of picture reproduction - so-called satinization, and flat glass and mirror material treatment for framing purposes. All these services are granted in short-term delivery periods at favorable prices to the direct producer.
The network of Company Shops was gradually established at first in the border area of the Český Krumlov Region. In the last years it was extended to the capital city of Prague and Tábor. The significant advantage of the exhibited collection of picture mouldings, frames and framed art masterpieces is a direct connection with the manufacturing and progressive working places of a Company (contributing to variety and continuous innovation of assortments). There are also other advantages arising from a long-term steady position of a Company in the field of framing procedures on a worldwide scale. This means quality craft treatment and handmade production handling together with top manufacturing technology and access to new developments in the field.
Company Shops List
| Český Krumlov - Factory | ||
| Address : | Tovární 117, 381 17 Český Krumlov | |
| Telephone : | +420 380 773 111 | |
| Český Krumlov - Town |  | |
| Address : | Latrán č. p. 54, 381 01 Český Krumlov | |
| Telephone : | +420 380 715 457 | |
| České Budějovice |  | |
| Address : | Stejskalova 4, 370 01 České Budějovice | |
| Telephone : | +420 386 355 923 | |
| Kaplice |  | |
| Address : | Pivovarská 210, 382 41 Kaplice | |
| Telephone : | +420 380 313 603 | |
| Vyšší Brod |  | |
| Address : | Náměstí 35, 382 73 Vyšší Brod | |
| Telephone : | +420 380 746 165 | |
| Tábor |  | |
| Address : | Křížíkovo náměstí 1976, 390 01 Tábor | |
| Telephone : | +420 381 251 577 | |
| Prag |  | |
| Address : | Sokolovská 86, 186 00 Praha 8 | |
| Telephone : | +420 220 512 321 | |
The Lira Joint-stock Company constantly cooperates with the Center of Practical Training.
Information about the apprentices subject of study FRAMING MASTER - GILDING, code No. 33 - 64 - 2.
This three-years apprentice study is focused on the manufacture of picture mouldings and frames. The mouldings and frames production has a more than 110-year long tradition, and the goods from the Lira Joint-stock Company are known all over the world. To preserve and develop this valuable gilding craft, apprentices learn this subject of study in daily classes while alternating one week of theory with one week of technical training.
Schedule of study
General educational subjects (mathematics, Czech language, chemistry, etc.) are taught in Secondary Skilled School in Český Krumlov.
The technical subjects of study such as technology of gilding, gilding materials, technical drawing and history of art and design in the craft are given by our experts in the location of the Center of Practical Training in Domoradice, Český Krumlov.
Technical training takes place in workshops of the Center of Practical Training. During the course of practical training the pupils in particular learn completion of picture mouldings and frames (gilding, shading, wood imitating, framing, etc.).
Notice for parents: The sponsor of our pupils is the Lira Joint-stock Company, Český Krumlov and covers the following :
| All costs related with training and education |
| Working clothes and footwear |
| Extra payment for food stamps, etc. |
Additional information : Manager of the Center of Practical Training, Ms. Gráfová
Telephone :
+420 380 773 725
+420 380 726 495
The Lira Joint-stock Company has begun a new service for customers, the restoration of old frames. The basic possibilities are listed below only due to the fact that the procedures and steps of restoration vary object to object.
| Restoration of carving - damaged hand made carving masterpieces' restoration and imputes of the missing parts. | ||||
| Gluing of frame constructions, if necessary. | ||||
| Repair of basic constructions - removing the layer with old paints, waterproofing the constructions using conservation liquids, constructional refacing. Restoration of ornaments on basic construction. Restoration of gilded parts, etc. |
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Direct Contact: Mr. Klečka
Telephone : +420 380 773 120
| Telephone no's : | |
| Central | +420 380 773 111 |
| Company's Managing Director | +420 380 773 738 |
| Deputy of Economy | +420 380 773 729 |
| Deputy of Sales | +420 380 773 751 |
| Deputy of Production | +420 380 773 713 |
| Deputy of Technology | +420 380 773 727 |
| Export | +420 380 773 760 |
| +420 380 773 733 | |
| Inland Sale & Despatch Dept. | +420 380 773 130 |
| +420 380 773 168 | |
| Invoicing Dept. | +420 380 773 612 |
| Fax no's. : | |
| Český Krumlov | +420 380 711 025 |
| Český Krumlov - export | +420 380 711 534 |
| Plant Horní Planá | +420 380 738 123 |
| Sale CR | +420 380 773 621 |
| E-mail : | |
| Sale CR | Obchod@lira.cz |
| Export | Export@lira.cz |
| Information | info@lira.cz |
Further information :
List of Businesses and Companies in Český Krumlov
List of Businesses and Companies in the Český Krumlov Region
