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ATU Auto -teile-Unger Handels GmbH & Co. KG

logo
legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1985
Seat Willows in the Upper Palatinate , Bavaria
management
  • Matthieu Foucart
Number of employees approx. 10,000 (2018)
sales approx. 1 billion euros
Branch Retail, service
Website www.atu.de

Former logo

The ATU Auto-Teile-Unger Handels GmbH & Co. KG ( ATU ) based in Weiden is a company with automotive accessories , is auto parts and tires, as well as connected to the stores vehicle workshops operates; ATU is majority owned by the French Mobivia group.

activities

ATU has around 10,000 employees and 597 branches in Germany and Austria.

Headquarters in Weiden

There are distribution centers in Weiden and Werl ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). The warehouse in Weiden supplies southern Germany and the neighboring countries, while Werl supplies the branches in northern and eastern Germany and the company's internet customers.

history

The company was founded in 1985 by Peter Unger . In June 2002, 80% of the company shares were around from the private equity firm Doughty Hanson & Co bought. An initial public offering of ATU planned for May 2004 was canceled and the company was then sold to the holding company KKR for 1.45 billion euros. Doughty Hanson & Co came back on board as minority owners of ATU as part of the change. In February 2010, KKR took over another 18.5 percent of the shares from co-owner Doughty Hanson & Co. In December 2013, the US investor Centerbridge, as ATU's largest creditor, took over the company from KKR; KKR retained a three percent stake in ATU. In February 2014, ATU announced that it would lay off 900 employees in Germany. Some branches were closed to adjust to sales. In spring 2015, 16 branches in the Netherlands and the Czech Republic were closed. ATU remained the branches in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

In July 2016, ATU hired Joachim Zims, a renowned renovator. In September 2016, a possible sale to the French competitor Mobivia became known; since there was no positive continuation prognosis, a three-week period began for averting bankruptcy or filing for bankruptcy. On December 8, 2016, shortly before the deadline, an agreement was reached on the workshop rents of almost half of the locations, thus averting the impending bankruptcy, so that Mobivia took over the majority of ATU. In February 2018, the tire manufacturer Michelin took over a fifth of the ATU company shares.

On April 20, 2020 the bankruptcy judge Winterthur initiated the bankruptcy of the Swiss branch. This affects the 6 branches in Switzerland with 75 employees.

Others

In August 2011, four mechanics set a world record for changing wheels without electronic aids. With a time of 1:43, they beat the old record by 42 seconds. They received an entry in the Guinness Book of Records .

Web links

Commons : Auto -teile-Unger  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ ATU management. Via ATU.Retrieved August 30, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c See also ATU in numbers. ATU, accessed February 11, 2020 .
  3. ↑ In 2004 KKR took over the majority of ATU for 1.45 billion euros from the financial investor Doughty Hanson. on manager-magazin.de , February 8, 2008
  4. ↑ ATU is now owned by its creditors on handelsblatt.com , December 5, 2013
  5. ^ Workshop chain ATU dismisses 900 employees on t-online.de , February 15, 2014
  6. ↑ See also the ATU homepage ( Memento of the original from June 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.atu.de
  7. ↑ ATU closes most of the branches abroad on ramasuri.de , April 22, 2015
  8. ^ Klaus Smolka: ATU is negotiating with investors. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , July 18, 2016.
  9. ↑ ATU saves rental agreement In: WeltN24 . December 8, 2016, accessed December 12, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Selling to competitors secured. In: n-tv . December 8, 2016, accessed December 9, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Michelin joins ATU. In: Handelsblatt . February 12, 2018, accessed February 13, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Patrik Berger: German auto giant closes Swiss garages. In: Blick.ch . April 28, 2020, accessed April 28, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Michael Reidel: Bankruptcy opened: ATU closes the branches in Switzerland. In: horizon . April 29, 2020, accessed May 1, 2020 .
  14. ↑ ATU sets record for changing tires. In: auto-medienportal.net , August 10, 2011.
  15. ↑ ATU mechanic in the Guinness Book of Records. In: otv.de , October 2, 2012.