Bossard Holding
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | CH0238627142 |
| founding | 1831 |
| Seat |
Zug , Switzerland
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| management | Daniel Bossard (CEO) Thomas Schmuckli (Chairman of the Board of Directors) |
| Number of employees | 2,500 |
| sales | 876.2 million CHF (610 million euros ) |
| Branch | Wholesale , logistics |
| Website | www.bossard.com |
| As of March 4, 2020 | |
The Bossard Holding AG is an internationally active Swiss screw trade - and logistics company based in train . Its activities include worldwide sales, technical advice and warehouse management . The group of companies employs 2500 people at 80 locations in Europe, America and Asia / Pacific, and generated sales of 876.2 million Swiss francs in 2019. Bossard Holding is listed on the Swiss stock exchange SIX Swiss Exchange listed .
Field of activity
The company deals with product solutions and services in industrial connection technology. The product range includes over 1,000,000 fasteners and customer-specific application solutions, combined with services in the areas of Smart Factory Logistics and Assembly Technology Expert. Bossard maintains an international procurement network for screws and fasteners. The company works with 3,200 manufacturers.
history
The company was founded in Zug in 1831 by Johann Franz Kaspar Bossard as an iron trade. The earlier silk trading business taken over by his father-in-law Karl Kaspar Kolin was closed. The hardware store retained its local character for around a century before the company expanded into the screw trade in the 1930s and 1940s.
The local specialty store initially developed into a regionally active company and from the 1950s into a nationally active company. From the 1960s onwards, Bossard began to set up and expand an international network of bases. In the course of expansion, the company went public in 1987 .
The recession at the beginning of the 1990s and the associated poorer business performance prompted Bossard to review the entire organization. The company focused on the core area of connection technology and the step-by-step removal of all tool, fittings and craft activities.
Bossard is active in connection technology in Europe, America and Asia. In November 2012, the Bossard Group took over the connection technology division of the KVT Koenig Group.
At the beginning of 2019, the Bossard Group took over BRUMA screw and turning technology GmbH in Velbert. On June 24, 2019, the company also acquired the distribution division of the SACS Boysen Aerospace Group, which continues to operate under the name Boysen.
In early 2020, the Bossard Group also increased its majority stake in Torp Fasteners, based in Oslo, Norway, from 60% to 100%. Bossard has been involved in the company since January 2015, which specializes in high-quality connections.
Trivia
The EV Zug ice hockey stadium has been known as the Bossard Arena since 2010 . Bossard AG exercised its option to extend the naming contract for the period from August 1, 2020 to July 31, 2025. The extension is part of the contract signed in 2010 for the naming rights of the then newly built ice rink.
literature
- Christian Raschle: Bossard-Kolin: Economy, politics and culture in Zug. (Series Culture in Central Switzerland, Vol. 26). Pro Libro publishing house, Lucerne 2014, ISBN 978-3-905927-18-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Annual report 2017
- ↑ About us - Investor Relations. In: bossard.com. Retrieved March 4, 2020 .
- ↑ Bossard Group takes over connection technology from KVT Koenig Group for 200 million CHF , bilanz.ch, December 25, 2012, accessed on June 21, 2013.
- ↑ https://www.bossard.com/de/ueber-uns/neuheiten-und-medienmitteilungen/2019/02/uebernahme-von-bruma/. Retrieved June 18, 2019 .
- ↑ https://www.bossard.com/de/ueber-uns/neuheiten-und-medienmitteilungen/2019/06/ausbau-des-luft-und-raumfahrtsgeschaefts/. Retrieved March 4, 2020 .
- ↑ https://www.bossard.com/de/ueber-uns/neuheiten-und-medienmitteilungen/2020/01/bossard-erhoeht-beteiligung-an-torp-fasteners-auf-100-prozent/. Retrieved March 4, 2020 .
- ↑ https://www.bossard.com/de/ueber-uns/neuheiten-und-medienmitteilungen/2020/02/bossard-arena/. Retrieved March 4, 2020 .