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| Berge & Meer Touristik GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1978 |
| Seat |
Rengsdorf , Germany
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| Number of employees | 172 (annual average 2012/2013) |
| sales | 168.9 million € (2012/2013) |
| Branch | tourism |
| Website | www.berge-meer.de |
The Berge & Meer Touristik GmbH is a German tourist companies for package tours based in Rengsdorf . From 2007 to September 30, 2019, it was TUI's direct sales subsidiary . Since October 1, 2019, a fund advised by the Hamburg-based investment company GENUI GmbH has been the main shareholder of Berge & Meer Touristik GmbH. Other shareholders are the managing directors Thomas Klein and Tim Dunker.
As a tour operator, the company is mainly active in Germany and, to a lesser extent, in Austria. The package tours are almost exclusively sold through direct sales. Here the focus is on round trips and adventure trips, combination trips and cruises as well as on products with their own journey. Adventure and activity trips have also been offered under the company's own Avastama brand since 2011 .
In the 2012/2013 financial year, the company employed an average of 145 full-time and 27 part-time employees.
In the same financial year, Berge & Meer achieved sales of around 169 million euros with around 286,000 holidaymakers.
history
The Rengsdorf tourism company was founded in 1978 by Klaus Scheyer and has been offering group and package tours through direct sales ever since. The company has had the Berge & Meer brand name since 1995. An in-house call center was founded in 1997, and online direct sales began in 2000. On November 1, 2001, TUI became a partner in the parent company of Berge & Meer. In 2004 a new company building was inaugurated on Andréestrasse in Rengsdorf. The Berge & Meer travel shop started in June 2005 on the n-tv channel. Since January 2007, Aldi Nord and Süd have been providing accommodation, cruises and package tours under Aldi-Reisen , also with Berge & Meer as tour operators.
In 2008, founder Klaus Scheyer left the company after 30 years with the company. A year later, Ralf Horter succeeded Reiner Meutsch, who left the company after 20 years. Tim Dunker joined the management team in 2011, and Ralf Horter left Berge & Meer in 2012. Today the management consists of CEO Thomas Klein and Tim Dunker.
At a brand relaunch in December 2014, the brand claim “More vacation surprisingly cheap” was replaced by “Travel. For explorers. ”. The brand would like to position itself even more strongly than before in the field of round trips and adventure travel.
At the beginning of August 2019, the TUI Group, the previous owner of the company, announced that it had sold its shares to the Hamburg-based subsidiary GENUI GmbH .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Annual financial statements as of September 30, 2013 of Berge & Meer Touristik GmbH. In: Federal Gazette , January 7, 2015.
- ↑ https://www.berge-meer.de/service/unternehmen
- ↑ Small and dark become partners in Berge & Meer. FVW , August 13, 2019, accessed November 17, 2019 .
- ↑ www.avastama.de
- ↑ TUI sells Berge & Meer and Boomerang Reisen. Handelsblatt , August 12, 2019, accessed on November 17, 2019 .