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| Blaguss Reisen GmbH | |
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| Basic information | |
| Company headquarters | Vienna , Austria |
| Web presence | www.blaguss.com |
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | April 19, 1929 |
| Managing directors | Thomas Blaguss, Paul Blaguss |
| Transport network | IN FRONT |
Blaguss , a family business in the third generation, is an Austrian passenger transport and travel agency company.
The main areas of activity of the group of companies are bus charter, shuttle services, travel agencies, individual and group travel as well as national and international scheduled services. Blaguss has occasionally also provided shuttle services at major events, such as the 60th Eurovision Song Contest 2015, where all national delegations drove with Blaguss buses.
The bus fleet of the Blaguss Group with an average age of 2.1 years includes around 550 coaches (as of 2017) of the Euro 6 emission standards . The Blaguss Group employs over 1000 people at its locations in Austria , Hungary , Slovakia , the Czech Republic and Germany .
The group of companies is led by the two cousins Thomas and Paul Blaguss.
Blaguss Group
In addition to Blaguss Reisen GmbH, which is known for bus charter, the Blaguss Group includes several subsidiaries and associated companies. This includes 14 travel agencies with locations in Vienna , Lower Austria , Burgenland , Salzburg and Hungary .
Other subsidiaries and affiliates of the Blaguss Group:
- Admicos : one-stop shop for congress, exhibition and association management.
- Airport Driver : Airport transfers and limousine service between Vienna and Schwechat Airport.
- Blaguss Minibus Service : Driving services for small groups and passenger transport for people with special needs.
- Event bus: Bus and ticket offers for top events with more than 300 boarding options throughout Austria.
- Flixbus CEE : International bus routes with a focus on Central and Eastern Europe.
- Rius Cruises : Incoming agency for cruises.
- Schönbrunn Palace Concerts: Daily concerts by Mozart and Strauss from the Schönbrunn Palace Orchestra.
- Vienna International Busterminal (VIB) : Austria's largest bus station with the highest number of passengers and a hub for hundreds of national and international long-distance bus connections.
- Vienna PASS : Sightseeing card for Vienna with free access to over 60 sights and museums, as well as unlimited use of the HOP ON HOP OFF Vienna Sightseeing Bus.
- Vienna Sightseeing Tours : HOP ON HOP OFF bus tours offer an overview of the most important sights in Vienna. Tours within Austria and to interesting cities in neighboring Austrian countries are also offered.
- Danube Tower : Vienna's landmark and popular excursion destination.
history
The company was founded in 1926 by Paul Blaguss (* 1907 in Unterpullendorf ; † 1972) as a trading company for the "trade in eggs, butter, poultry, game, fruit and mushrooms" . Soon after, he bought a Perl type truck so that he could sell his products on the Naschmarkt in Vienna . The transport company Blaguss was born. In 1932 the company also had three buses and in 1935 it was granted a line and travel agency license.
During the Second World War , all vehicles were confiscated and the company had to start all over again. Shortly after the end of the war, in 1947, Blaguss owned three buses again and applied for line concessions. The route network has been continuously expanded since then.
The first tourist trips to Hungary were made as early as 1953 and from 1956 Reisen u. a. offered to Greece. In 1965 the company was granted the unrestricted travel agency license in Oberpullendorf. The sons joined the company as partners in 1970 and took over management. Blaguss expanded both its program in Burgenland and at the new company location in Vienna.
In 1979, on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, the company was awarded the national coat of arms . At that time, the company employed around 150 people and had 40 buses.
In 1984 the first city lines of Wiener Linien were taken over. A new bus center was opened in Vienna in 1987. In addition to the new travel agency branch in Budapest, regular services between Vienna and Budapest have also been launched.
Soon after the opening of the Eastern European countries, international regular services were also added to Romania, Bulgaria and Poland. In the neighboring countries of the former Czechoslovakia and Hungary, numerous activities were already carried out during the time of the Iron Curtain . From 1991 until the beginning of 2016 Blaguss was a member of the Eurolines network .
Blaguss has been cooperating with the German long-distance bus company Flixbus Mobility GmbH since 2014 . As part of this strategic cooperation, targets in a total of six countries in Central & Eastern Europe (CEE) have been served by the joint subsidiary Flixbus CEE since the beginning of 2016.
In December 2015, Bank Austria's shares in the Vienna Donauturm were sold to the Blaguss Group - together with three other investors.
In 2016, a majority stake in the Salzburg bus and travel agency company Vorderegger was taken over, and the Salzburg location is being expanded further.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ With the event bus to the 60th Eurovision Song Contest . In: Tourism press . ( Tourismuspresse.at [accessed on April 13, 2017]).
- ↑ Coach Hire Austria | Rent a Bus Austria | Coach Rental. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 24, 2017 ; accessed on April 13, 2017 . 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.
- ^ STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: Waiting for central Vienna bus station . In: derStandard.at . ( derstandard.at [accessed April 14, 2017]).
- ↑ FlixBus Austria , accessed on December 18, 2014
- ↑ STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: Bank Austria sells Vienna's Danube Tower at Blaguss and co . In: derStandard.at . ( derstandard.at [accessed on March 29, 2017]).
- ↑ Blaguss Vorderegger - Salzburgwiki. Retrieved March 29, 2017 .
