Barraqueiro
| Barraqueiro SGPS | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Sociedade Anónima |
| founding | 1933 |
| Seat | Lisbon , Portugal |
| management | Humberto Pedrosa (CEO) |
| Number of employees | 3,400 (2006) |
| sales | 290 million euros (2006) |
| Branch | traffic |
| Website | http://www.barraqueiro.com |
Barraqueiro SGPS, SA , usually just Grupo Barraqueiro , is a Portuguese transport group and the largest private transport company in Portugal. Barraqueiro owns numerous bus companies that are used in both the local, regional and national bus networks, and the company, founded in 1933, operates the only private railway company Fertagus and the metro Sul do Tejo tram . The British transport group Arriva also has a stake in the group. In 2006, Barraqueiro and its subsidiaries carried 123.19 million passengers.
history
Joaquim Jerónimo , the founder of the Barraqueiro group, bought an Americana bus in 1910 and operated a small passenger transport with it from 1914. However, it was not until 19 years later that he officially founded the company Joaquim Jerónimo, Lda and bought four additional vehicles to increase traffic on the Malveira - Lisbon route . As a nickname, the company always had the name Barraqueiro , which came from the founder's parents, who as well-known merchants traveled through Portugal with their goods stand ( barraca ); barraqueiro roughly means "market stallion", "stall owner".
In 1967 the Pedrosa family bought the company, at that time the bus fleet already consisted of 19 buses. Since then, the company has always been on a course of expansion. In 1973 the family also acquired the bus company Henrique Leonardo Mota, Lda. and thus concentrated its bus traffic on the corridor between Lisbon, Loures , Malveira and Torres Vedras . Strongly represented in the Lisbon area by both bus companies, the number of passengers grew steadily, and both represented an important position in the capital's bus market. In 1981, the Pedrosa family also founded the Frota Azul company under the umbrella of Joaquim Jerónimo, Lda , in order to also operate in tourist bus transport to be active.
In the early 1990s, the Portuguese government decided to privatize the state bus operator Rodoviária Nacional and to sell it to individual regional companies. The Pedrosa family took advantage of this opportunity and bought the bus companies Rodoviária do Algarve (now EVA-Transportes ), Rodoviária do Alentejo , Rodoviária da Estremadura , Rodoviária de Lisboa , Rodoviária do Tejo between 1992 and 1995 . The image of the company expanded suddenly, as the group now operated all bus services between Lisbon and the Algarve.
In 1997, the Portuguese government under António Guteres decided to tender the local transport of the newly built rail link over the Ponte 25 de Abril in a Europe-wide competition. This gave the Pedrosa family group of companies, which wanted to take part in the tender, the impetus for complete restructuring. Since then, the group of companies has been operating under the name Barraqueiro in the form of a holding company, with the numerous bus companies affiliated as subsidiaries. The group won the tender for rail transport in 1999 and founded its own company called Fertagus , which will operate suburban transport on the Linha do Sul between Lisbon and Coina / Setúbal until 2019 .
In 1999 the government also put out tenders for the construction and operation of a new light rail system in the Seixal / Almada area . The Barraqueiro group and Joaquim Jerónimo participated in the tender in a consortium called Metro Transportes do Sul, SA (MTS). The companies Metroligeiro (various construction companies, construction of the infrastructure) as well as Siemens (21.33% vehicle delivery ) and Meci (11.67%, electrotechnical equipment) were also involved in the consortium. Joaquim Jerónimo was responsible for operation and maintenance in the consortium. The consortium won the 30-year concession, and since then Barraqueiro has been operating the modern light rail network in the Margem Sul do Tejo, which opened in 2007 .
In 2003 Barraqueiro sold his bus company Transportes Sul do Tejo to the British transport company Arriva . However, a planned joint venture between the two groups failed in January 2006 because the antitrust authorities feared that the two companies would have a dominant position.
Arriva then took a 21.5 percent stake in the group for 60 million euros, but increased that stake in January 2008 for a further 50 million euros to 31.5 percent.
Subsidiaries and equity investments (selection)
- Rodoviária Alentejo , SA (99.88 percent)
- Frota Azul Algarve , LDA (98.09 percent)
- Rodoviária do Tejo , SA (63.28 percent)
- Rodoviária de Lisboa , SA (99.99 percent)
- Metro Transportes do Sul , SA (34 percent)
- Fertagus , SA (90 percent)
- EVA Transportes (99 percent)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Annual Report 2006 of Barraqueiro SGPS (PDF file; 476 kB)
- ↑ Details on the company's history ( Memento of the original from April 22, 2009 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. , barraqueiro.com
- ↑ Report from the antitrust authority prohibits cooperation between Arriva and Barraqueiro (P) , oepnv-markt.de, January 24, 2006
- ↑ Announcement Arriva participates in Barraqueiro , oepnv-markt.de, May 17, 2006
- ↑ Announcement Arriva increases stake in Barraqueiro , oepnv-markt.de, January 8, 2008
Web links
- Official website of the Barraqueiro SGPS (Portuguese, English)