Circus Krone - The Company - Additions

Circus Krone, The Company People, Animals, Facts & Figures A touch of romance has remained an essential element of the circus. In any case, such is the case for one looking from the outside at the nearly three-hour circus performance. Behind the scenes, however, there is the hard reality. An enterprise in the magnitude of Circus Krone is managed as an industrial concern. Here, one must establish a budget and determine incomes. Balance sheets are drawn up and schedules developed years in advance. Unlike theatres, opera houses, the circus does not receive any state subsidies. All expenditures must be covered by income.

Krone plans all large appearance cities in Western Europe three years in advance.
Artists and animal teacher are booked years in advance.

Where in former times, the romance of the circus was the emphasis, today a
large administrative machinery exists. Nearly 50 of the 400 employees of the
Circus Krone are actively involved in the administration. Buyers travel 14 days
in advance of circus around food supply for humans to guarantee and animal.
Program contractors travel the globe to evaluate and engage top name acts.
The media crew is long in advance of the circus in the respective cities.

More than 25,000 euro daily are spent for the maintenance of traveling tent city.
The budget includes wages, salaries, taxes, social security contributions, site
rental, advertising expenses, transportation, food supply, fodder, and energy.
New acquisitions and amortization are not included in that figure.

Alone, over one million euro was spent on the main tent with its with seats,
stage, masts and accessories. The eight-mast tent construction is the
most modern, largest and most expensive in existence.

Krone spends approximately 3,000 euro daily for the nutritional needs of
humans and animals. Alone for the predatory animals, 180 kg of meat per
day must be purchased. Each of the seven elephants require 2 hundred
kilograms of straw per day, 1 hundred kilograms hay, 15 kg bread and
some 10 kg of fresh feed - a daily expenditure of some 50 euro for each
elephant. In addition, over 60 horses and ponies must be feed every day.


Circus Krone now possesses 110 vehicles

The sobering year's balance:
- 900.000 euro transport costs
- 5 Million euro wages and salary
- 1,5 Million euro taxes and social expenditures