Birkart Globistics

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Birkart Globistics GmbH & Co. Logistics and Service KG

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legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1877
Seat Aschaffenburg
Number of employees around 1,700
sales 380.1 million euros (2006)
Branch logistics
Website www.logwin-logistics.com

The Birkart Globistics GmbH & Co. Logistik und Service KG was a company headquartered in Aschaffenburg , which existed from 1877 by 2008. In the air and sea ​​freight business segments , around 1,700 employees recently generated annual sales of 380 million euros.

The company was bought by Thiel Logistik in 2002 and continued as a legally independent subsidiary. When the entire group was renamed Logwin AG , Birkart was renamed Logwin Air + Ocean Deutschland GmbH in 2008 and merged with other companies.

Company history

In 1877 Gabriel Birkart started his own transport company in Aschaffenburg. In 1901 the company was continued by his son Johann Birkart. After his death in 1933, his only 19 year old son Hans Birkart took over the management. In 1937 the company, which is now active throughout the country, set up its first branch in Würzburg . After the reconstruction in the post-war period, further locations followed in other German cities.

In 1956, Birkart offered international transports to Italy for the first time . In 1957 the company established its first foreign branch in Austria . In 1964, Birkart founded the Deutsche Kleiderspedition (DKS) in Aschaffenburg, one of the traditional centers of the German textile industry, which introduced hanging clothing dispatch as an innovation. In 1967 Birkart opened the first air freight department in Frankfurt am Main . In the 1970s the logistics company expanded to other continents: in 1972 the first branch in Asia was set up in Hong Kong , in the same year in Brazil the first branch in America and in 1976 in South Africa the first branch on the African continent. With the establishment of the branch in Sydney, Australia in 1989, Birkart was finally represented on all continents.

In addition to setting up its own branches, the company increased its presence through the association with cooperation partners: 1986 with the general cargo cooperation "System-Gut Logistik Service", 1998 with the airfreight cooperation "Future" and 1999 with the seafreight cooperation "Group 99" and subsequently the "Global Container Group". In 2008, Birkart stated the number of its own branches as “more than 95” and the number of locations at which it was represented as “over 200”.

In 2000 the owners converted Birkart Globistics into a public company . In the following year, Hans-Dieter Birkart, the great-grandson of the company founder, took over as chairman of the board. In 2002 Günter Thiel bought the company and added it to the group of his Thiel Logistik AG as a legally independent company. In 2003 Hans-Dieter Birkart withdrew from the company.

In 2002 Delton AG , whose sole owner is entrepreneur Stefan Quandt , bought the majority of shares in Thiel AG. In the years that followed, the group had to be rescued from imminent bankruptcy after its rapid expansion. After the crisis, the companies were massively restructured. From 2005, Birkart Globistics Air + Ocean acted as a specialist for air and ocean freight, in which the previous air and ocean freight activities of all Thiel subsidiaries were bundled. The Deutsche Kleiderspedition became a legally independent company as Thiel FashionLifestyle . In 2008 Thiel AG was renamed Logwin AG . All subsidiaries were also renamed to the new brand, Birkart became Logwin Air + Ocean Deutschland GmbH .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Birkart Globistics at a glance ( Memento from June 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Excerpts from the commercial register for Logwin Air + Ocean Deutschland GmbH. In: online-handelsregister.de. Retrieved October 8, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Birkart Globistics company history ( Memento of 2 June 2008 at the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Inheriting Without Fortune, Part 6: Logistics Deal as a Failure. In: Manager magazine. May 15, 2006, accessed October 8, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Thiel Logistik becomes Logwin. In: Handelsblatt. March 11, 2008, accessed October 8, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Companies in the Logwin Group are renamed. In: Reuters.com. July 1, 2008, accessed October 8, 2018 .

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