ATR (company)
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| legal form | unlisted stock corporation |
| founding | 1999 |
| Seat | Stuttgart |
| management | Stephan Bens (Head of Marketing / Digitalization), Wolfgang Menges (Head of Purchasing / Finances) Kurt Schnyder (Chairman of the Supervisory Board), Terry Knox (Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board), Mihály Lieb, Johan Regefalk, Warren Espinoza, John Quinn |
| Number of employees | More than 151,000 worldwide, at the headquarters in Stuttgart 26 (as of 2020) |
| sales | 26.59 billion euros (2019), 23.7 billion euros (2018), 22.5 billion euros (2017), 20.1 billion euros (2016), 14 billion euros (2015) |
| Branch | Automotive aftermarket |
| Website | www.atr.de |
ATR (Auto -teile-Ring) is the corporate umbrella for a trading cooperation for automotive spare parts and a service center for four workshop concepts . Seat ATR is Stuttgart - Hedelfingen ( Baden-Wuerttemberg ). ATR companies supply vehicle workshops and auto parts dealers with original spare parts and workshop equipment.
history
In the 1950s, several auto parts wholesalers in Germany joined forces to jointly publish a catalog for auto parts. In the mid-1960s, the first petrol station stores began selling auto accessories, competing with wholesalers who achieved high sales with accessories. Therefore, some wholesalers decided to bundle their purchasing sales. This required a common legal form - that's how ATR GmbH came into being in 1967. The founding members were the wholesalers Auto Merkur, Auto Staiger, Matthies, Stahlgruber and Wessels. ATR is the oldest trading cooperation for automotive spare parts in Germany. The founding members Johannes J. Matthies GmbH & Co KG in Hamburg and Stahlgruber GmbH in Poing are still part of ATR today.
In 1990 ATR introduced the Cartechnic own brand for workshop consumables and accessories. The range now includes more than 700 items. The ATR wholesalers also pushed the catalog community forward, which only really got going with electronic data processing . In 1992 the ATR partners presented their ATRis electronic parts information system at the Automechanika trade fair .
When the buying and selling of automotive spare parts and accessories became an increasingly cross-border business in the 1990s, ATR strived for internationalization . The first shareholders outside Germany were the parts dealers Groupe Laurent from France (1991) and Gerstenmaier from Spain (1992). With the establishment of ATR International AG in 1999, the corporate law framework for the internationally growing purchasing cooperation was created.
facts and figures
Today, ATR International AG has 38 shareholders with 281 trading companies in 64 countries around the world - including in the USA, South America, Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia. This means that ATR is represented on five continents.
The partner companies employ over 151,000 people and operate more than 10,000 sales branches. Together, the members of ATR International AG generated external sales of 23.7 billion euros in 2018 . ATR International AG is one of the highest-turnover purchasing groups in the independent automotive replacement parts market worldwide. The 38 shareholders hold the capital of the unlisted AG.
Workshop establishments
Since 2008, ATR has combined the brand-independent workshop and specialist retail concepts Meisterhaft, AC AUTO CHECK and autoPARTNER in ATR SERVICE GmbH - in total, there are around 1318 owner-managed businesses in Germany (as of March 2020). This makes ATR SERVICE GmbH the largest concept provider for independent multi-brand workshops in Germany. ATR also includes the international ACC AUTO CHECK CENTER workshop concept with 349 workshops in Greece, Croatia, Portugal, Romanians, the Czech Republic and Hungary.
Suppliers
ATR's suppliers include both spare parts manufacturers and original equipment manufacturers in the automotive industry , such as Bosch , Continental , Hella , Mahle , Schaeffler and ZF Friedrichshafen AG . In total, ATR works with around 150 suppliers in the automotive electrics, automotive chemistry, automotive accessories, body parts, wear parts, tools and workshop equipment product groups.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolk Partner Car Consult "The Car Aftermarket in Europe 2009" ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Entry in the commercial register at the Stuttgart District Court UR 1092/1968 He
- ↑ Successful with tradition. ATR in numbers. In: atr.de. Retrieved May 20, 2020 .
- ↑ Special issue asp 6/2011
- ↑ Comprehensive support for vehicle workshops. In: atr.de. Retrieved May 20, 2020 .
