Bremer Lagerhaus-Gesellschaft - stock corporation from 1877

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Bremer Lagerhaus-Gesellschaft - stock corporation from 1877
legal form Corporation
ISIN DE0005261606
founding 1877
Seat Bremen , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management
  • Frank Dreeke ( CEO )
Branch logistics
Website www.blg-logistics.com
Status: 2019

The Bremer Lagerhaus-Gesellschaft - Aktiengesellschaft von 1877 is the general partner of BLG Logistics Group AG & Co. KG , an international seaport and logistics company based in Bremen . The Bremer Lagerhaus-Gesellschaft is listed on the stock exchange and is remunerated by the BLG Logistics Group for the liability assumed and for its management activities.

history

65 merchants founded the stock corporation in February 1877. A key factor in this was the desire of Bremen's cotton traders for an improved warehouse and trading infrastructure, including the ability to issue order warehouse receipts and warrants . The business was limited to handling and storage ; the transport of goods was not one of them. The first five own warehouses went into operation in 1878 on the left of the Weser in the security harbor - commonly known as the Hohentorshafen since around 1900 . BLG itself ensured the early connection to the railway network . In the first decade of operation, the company primarily stored grain and pulses , lard , bacon and pork , tobacco , cotton, sheep's wool and coffee .

In 1888 BLG expanded its activities to the new free port on the right of the Weser, the corresponding operating leasing agreement between Bremen and BLG dates from May 1888. BLG had a significant influence on the development of the port facilities on the right of the Weser up to the First World War . When it was completed in 1906, it also became active in the overseas port , and the operating leasing contract was adapted accordingly. In addition, she operated the grain transport facility from 1897 . In 1929 she took over the Weserbahnhof . In response to the effects of the global economic crisis , BLG introduced the so-called Krümpersystem at the beginning of April 1932, which was intended to prevent workers from becoming unemployed by changing leaves of absence. The system remained in effect until the end of April 1935.

1933 to 1945

In the course of the “seizure of power” in Bremen , Kurt Dronke, long-time chairman of the board, a member of the parliamentary group of the German State Party in the Bremen citizenship , was forced out of office in April 1933. His successor became an NSDAP member. Carl Krüger, who had been a member of the board since 1931, had a similar experience: under political pressure, he asked for a six-month vacation in September 1933, and on May 31, 1934 he retired. On the basis of National Socialist legislation, all non-permanent workers in the port were also employed by a general port company in Bremen (in Bremen since June 25, 1934: Hafenbetriebsverein in Bremen eV ). This assigned workers to the port operations, including BLG. After the beginning of the Second World War , these workers also included foreign workers , prisoners of war , Eastern workers , as well as temporarily prisoners and concentration camp prisoners . At the beginning of January 1941, a fire caused by incendiary bombs devastated the BLG administration building. Up until the end of the war, high explosive and incendiary bombs destroyed a large part of the port and its facilities (warehouses, storage facilities , sheds, cranes, hydraulic equipment, tracks, lines, grain plant, Weserbahn station, etc.).

1945 to 1998

On September 17, 1945, the authorities in the American occupation zone fired ten BLG executives . Carl F. Ewig became the new director of BLG. The company received re-authorization for business activities on November 29, 1945. With the ongoing repairs to the port, the activities of BLG revived. Initially, the business concentrated primarily on the overseas port . Then it was about the repair of the European port . In 1950 Wilhelm Daehne became the new director of BLG. In 1951 the Weserbahnhof resumed operations. In the first half of the 1950s, the cold store at the Holz- und Fabrikenhafen also began to operate .

Hafenhochhaus Headquarters from 1961 (photo from 2010)

From mid-1953, BLG also directed the ports of Bremerhaven . This affected the Kaiserhafen , the Columbuskaje , the New Harbor and the connecting port . The north port was added later. In 1959, the city of Bremen and BLG signed an operating agreement. In it it was regulated that the city holds the majority of the shares. In the same year it was negotiated with the ÖTV that instead of a reduction in the weekly working hours for the shift workers in the Bremen ports, one day off per month would be granted. For the financial years 1959 and 1960, the corporation paid a dividend of 10 percent on the share capital of DM 252,000. In 1961, the company moved into the newly built high-rise harbor at the head of the Überseehafen . Two years later, the city of Bremen and BLG signed an agreement that enabled the company to borrow funds on the capital market for extended tasks . In this way it financed the considerable expenses for the construction and operation of the Neustädter Hafen (operation from 1965/1966) and for the construction and operation of the container terminal in Bremerhaven (construction from 1968; operation from 1971). In 1966 the first container ship to appear in Europe , the Fairland , moored in the overseas port . Since 1967 there was also a provisional facility for RoRo ships in this port ; At the end of 1973 one was permanently available in the Europahafen .

Bremerhaven has been called at by LASH mother ships on schedule since 1970 . From February 1974 a floating barge berth was available at the head of the Überseehafen . In 1979 BLG took over the Kap Horn transshipment facility with access to the Weser and the industrial port from the Anker Schiffahrtsgesellschaft . In the same year, the RoRo system in Neustädter Hafen was ready for operation.

In the 1980s, BLG took part in the booming container business, which transformed the entire port industry and led, particularly in Bremerhaven, to the expansion of the terminal in several stages. The tough competition, however, put pressure on margins , including at BLG. The recession of the world economy in the early 1980s led to layoffs of BLG employees in the industrial and commercial sector. Through business contacts with Volkswagen and later with Daimler-Benz , the company began with logistics services for the automotive industry and improved its value creation , first by distributing supplier material to the German plants, then by semi knocked down and completely knocked down . Since 1980, BLG has also taken over logistics services with improved added value for Minolta .

Overcoming the real socialist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe at the end of the 1980s / beginning of the 1990s resulted in significant cargo losses for BLG in conventional business. The company got into crisis. From 1998 the organizational structure was completely redrafted: With the Bremer Lagerhaus-Gesellschaft - Aktiengesellschaft von 1877 as general partner, the new company BLG Logistics Group AG & Co. KG was created.

Since 1998

The new group structure was largely developed under Detthold Aden ( CEO until 2013). Well-known supervisory board chairmen during the restructuring were the former Bremen Senator Josef Hattig (until 2012) and the German bank manager Stephan-Andreas Kaulvers (2012 to 2018). Klaus Meier, managing partner of the wind farm project developer wpd , has been the new chairman of the supervisory board since 2018 .

organization structure

Frank Dreeke has been Chairman of the Board of Management since June 1, 2013, which consists of six people. Klaus Meier is chairman of the 16-member supervisory board:

  • Klaus Meier, Bremen (chairman), managing partner of wpd Windmanager GmbH & Co. KG
  • Sonja Berndt, member of the works council of BLG Logistics Group AG & Co. KG
  • Karl-Heinz Dammann, Chairman of the Group Works Council of Eurogate GmbH & Co. KGaA, KG and Deputy Chairman of the Works Council of Eurogate Container Terminal Bremerhaven GmbH
  • Heiner Dettmer, managing partner of Dettmer Group KG
  • Melf Grantz , Lord Mayor of the City of Bremerhaven
  • Martin Günthner , Senator for Economy, Labor and Ports and Senator for Justice and the Constitution of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
  • Udo Klöpping, Head of Human Resources at BLG Logistics Group AG & Co. KG
  • Dietmar Strehl , Senator for Finance of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
  • Wybcke Meier, CEO of TUI Cruises GmbH
  • Tim Nesemann, chairman of the board of financial holding at Sparkasse in Bremen and chairman of the board of Sparkasse Bremen AG
  • Klaus Pollok, process manager at BLG AutoTerminal Bremerhaven GmbH & Co. KG
  • Stefan Schubert, state department head of the united service union ver.di, state district Lower Saxony-
  • Dieter Strerath, Works Council Bremen of BLG Logistics Group AG & Co. KG
  • Reiner Thau, Chairman of the Works Council of Eurogate Container Terminal Hamburg GmbH
  • Patrick Wendisch , managing partner of Lampe & Schwartze KG

shares

In 1963 the share capital was increased from DM 252,000 to DM 5 million. The municipality of Bremen held 51 percent of the shares. The shares were in free trade acted and were first in Bremen listed . At the end of 1963 a share cost 420 DM. The financial crisis from 2007 had a negative effect. On September 29, 2009, the share price fell to a historic low of EUR 7.25. The shares are currently listed on the stock exchanges in Berlin , Frankfurt am Main , Hamburg , London and Munich .

The share capital of the listed Bremer Lagerhaus-Gesellschaft today amounts to 9,984,000 euros, there are 3,840,000 shares with voting rights. The shares were distributed as follows in September 2017:

The shares are registered shares with no par value . The WKN is 526160, the stock exchange abbreviation is BLH.

In February 2019 it became known that the Bremen municipality's stake of 12.6% of the shares previously held by Bremer Landesbank had been sold to a private investor. Information on the purchase price was not disclosed - also upon request at the Annual General Meeting on June 12, 2019.

The shareholder structure is now as follows:

  • Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, municipality 50.4%
  • Financial holding of the Sparkasse in Bremen 12.6%
  • Panta Re AG 12.6%
  • Waldemar Koch Foundation 5.9%
  • Free float 18.5%

The board of directors and the supervisory board have less than 1 percent of the shares. There were no reportable transactions ( directors' dealings ) in the 2018 financial year .

literature

  • Karl Löbe : Bremen Seaport. 100 decisive years. Bremer Lagerhaus-Gesellschaft 1877–1977 . Verlag Heinrich Döll & Co, Bremen 1977, ISBN 3-920245-42-3 .

Web links

References and comments

  1. a b Information about the Management Board on the company website, accessed on July 21, 2017.
  2. a b Information about the Supervisory Board on the company website, accessed on June 12, 2019.
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  39. Here is a vivid interview with Heinz Bamberger, former BLG manager: BLG - “Logistician with its own port” , Interview by Frauke Wilhelm with Heinz Bamberger (2013), digitales-heimatmuseum.de , accessed on July 23, 2017.
  40. ^ Eckhard-Herbert Arndt: Logistics without copying effect. BLG Logistics Group has been working with Konica Minolta for 27 years. In: FM freight + material flow. Issue 3, 2007. 30 years of logistics for Konica Minolta / BLG operates the largest logistics center for long-term customers. In: Press release from BLG Logistics. September 27, 2010, accessed July 24, 2017 .
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  42. Annual General Meeting in Bremen: BLG board members say goodbye , report in Weser-Kurier on May 24, 2013
  43. ^ Report in the Weser-Kurier on May 24, 2018
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  46. List of the West German stock exchanges
  47. ↑ Price trend in the Postbank stock exchange portal
  48. BLG Logistics: shareholder structure , information on the BLG website, accessed on September 11, 2017.
  49. Master data of the share , information on the company website, accessed on July 25, 2017.
  50. ^ Message from the BLG Board of Directors of February 7, 2019
  51. BLG Logistics: shareholder structure , information on the BLG website, accessed on June 11, 2019.
  52. BLG Logistics: Financial Report 2018 , page 33