LH Bundeswehr clothing company
| LH Bundeswehr Bekleidungsgesellschaft mbH
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| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | 2002 |
| Seat | Cologne , Germany |
| management | Managing director: Stephan Minz Uwe Schmack |
| Number of employees | 1840 (December 31, 2005) |
| Branch | Military service provider |
| Website | www.lhbw.de |
The LH Bundeswehr clothing mbH ( LHBw ) was a sales partnership between the federal government (division of the Ministry of Defense held), who was involved with 25.1 percent, and the LH clothing mbH (LHB), which 74.9 percent of the shares. In turn, the companies Lion Apparel Deutschland GmbH and Hellmann Worldwide Logistics GmbH & Co. KG held equal shares in the LHB . The purpose of the cooperation was the civil outsourcing of the military clothing industry previously operated by the Bundeswehr under its own responsibility.
The LHBw was commissioned to initially operate the clothing industry for the Bundeswehr until 2013 and to set up a third-party business. The 100% subsidiary of LHBw, LH Dienstbekleidungs GmbH (LHD), was responsible for building up the third-party business.
The private-sector reorganization of the Bundeswehr's clothing industry was intended to reduce costs while increasing quality. The company took over 21 clothing centers, 171 clothing stores and inventories of 625 million euros from the Bundeswehr. The LHBw was provided with 3764 federal employees. In March 2003 the subsidiary LHD took over the duties of the clothing fund for the Bundeswehr. In the end, LHD had 18 sales shops and one online shop.
In April 2003, 28,000 recruits were dressed for the first time independently . 2.9 million items of clothing were issued within 5 working days. The proportion of missing parts, which was 2 to 5 percent before the takeover by LHBw, was 1.4 percent. On average over the two-year period from July 2004 to April 2006, the proportion of missing parts was only 0.3 percent; subsequent delivery within ten days reduced it to 0.05 percent. By April 2006, the company had reduced its inventory to 346 million euros and the workforce to 1,840. The former clothing stores, which are now called service stations, were reduced to 117. The attempt by the LH Bundeswehr clothing company to circumvent public procurement law for orders from the Bundeswehr ended in 2003 with a defeat at the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court.
Decisive for the foundation were profitability calculations, according to which savings of 718 million euros should arise within 12 years, of which 166 million euros within the first three years. According to the LHBw, savings of 412 million euros have already been achieved after five years.
After the first few years with a profit, the LHBw got into considerable economic difficulties due to the suspension of conscription and the international expansion strategy in third-party business. In 2013, a loss of 10.8 million euros was made.
When it became foreseeable that the LHBw would go bankrupt in 2015, the federal government decided to take over; this should result in costs of € 91.86 million. In 2015, the federal government took over the shares of the private shareholders Lion Apparel Inc. USA and Hellmann Worldwide Logistics GmbH & Co. KG in LHBw. The LHBw was thus completely owned by the Federal Republic of Germany. LHD Group Deutschland GmbH, in which the non-armed forces business was merged, was sold to an investor in 2016.
Bw Bekleidungsmanagement GmbH (BWBM), which focuses on the Bundeswehr, emerged in 2017 from the previous companies .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Cologne District Court HR B 52368
- ↑ http://www.lhbw.de/
- ↑ Clemens Gause: The economization of the Bundeswehr. Strategic realignment and organizational culture framework . Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-8244-4583-2 , pp. 67-68.
- ↑ a b Jürgen Dahlkamp, Matthias Gebauer: “ Bundeswehr clothing store before insolvency: expensive green stuff ”, Spiegel-Online June 22, 2015 (accessed June 24, 2015).
- ^ Christian Dewitz: New contract “clothing management” with the LHBw. In: Bundeswehr Journal. July 29, 2016. Retrieved May 23, 2017 .