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Brose vehicle parts SE & Co. KG

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legal form SE & Co. KG
founding 1908
Seat Coburg , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Ulrich Schrickel (Chairman)
Number of employees 26,000 (2018)
sales 6.3 billion euros (2018)
Branch Automotive supplier
Website www.brose.com
As of December 15, 2018

Entrance to Plant 2 in Coburg

The Brose SE & Co. KG is an automotive supplier . The family company is based in Coburg .

The Brose group of companies develops and produces mechatronic components and systems for vehicle doors, seats and bodywork at 63 locations in 23 countries around the world . Its customers include around 80 automobile manufacturers and around 40 automotive suppliers. The family business employed around 26,000 people worldwide in 2018. In the 2018 financial year, the group generated sales of 6.3 billion euros. Among other things, the company is the main sponsor of the Brose Bamberg basketball team .

history

1908 until the end of the Second World War in 1945

On March 4, 1908, Max Brose opened a retail business for automobile accessories in Berlin , where he was also the general representative of his father's body construction company in Wuppertal .

After the First World War , Max Brose and Ernst Jühling, who grew up in Coburg, founded the Metallwerk Max Brose & Co. on June 14, 1919 in Coburg . The company had the legal form of a general partnership and was used for the manufacture and sale of Metal goods, tools , apparatus and materials, in particular for motor vehicles and aircraft. For this purpose, the company "Metallwaren Haußknecht & Co" took over the employees, buildings and machines in Ketschendorfer Strasse .

In the accessories and supplier area, the company initially produced lights for motor vehicles , signaling instruments , petrol and oil canisters , car jacks and air pumps under the “Atlas” trademark . In October 1926, the company received a patent for the crank drive for retractable windows. After the rights to use the patent for the wrap spring brake had been acquired by the American company Ternstedt, series production of mechanical window regulators began in 1928 . The so-called window crank devices were also made for buses , railroad cars and trams. Windshields and vents expanded the product range in the following years.

From 1936, production was on the 20-liter Wehrmacht unit canister and the Second World War on impact detonator and explosive grenades changed. During this time Brose had up to 900 employees, including 200 Soviet prisoners of war towards the end of the war , for whom the Wehrmacht maintained a camp right next to the plant . The Nazi membership of Max Brose and the employment of forced labor were local political issues when it came to naming a Max-Brose-Strasse.

May 1945 to the end of the 20th century

In 1945 the American military government placed the company under trust for three years. Less than 100 employees produced household items such as stoves and irons, among other things. A production expansion outside the automotive accessories took place in 1953 with the manufacture of portable typewriter "Brosette". After more than 40,000 machines, production was discontinued in 1958 and sold to India in order to concentrate on the products as a supplier to the automotive industry. The window regulator in particular, which was first put into series production in 1963 with an electric drive, became the company's most important mainstay. In 1968, the next important business area of ​​seating systems began with the manufacture of seat fittings for adjusting backrests.

There were several changes in the management from the mid-1950s. Ernst Jühling died in 1956 and his heirs left the company. After Max Brose's death, the oldest daughter, Gisela Brose, ran the company from 1968 and renamed the company to KG . Three years later, Michael Stoschek , grandson of the company's founder Max Brose, took over management of the company at the age of 23, with a turnover of around DM 50 million and around 1000 employees. In 1982 the corporate form was changed to Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG .

In the recession year 1974 with the first oil crisis , the company had to lay off a quarter of its employees and switched production to, among other things, taps and fittings for the furniture industry. In the following years, Brose Coburg expanded again and invested 35 million DM in the new Plant 2 in Coburg, which was fully operational from 1983. This means that the company in Coburg employed 1,500 people. The production of injection molded plastic products for the automotive industry, which began in 1981, was discontinued in 1989. Further developments in the 1980s were the electronically controlled window regulator with anti-trap protection and the electric seat adjustment as well as the electronic position memory.

In 1988 Brose acquired its first foreign production facility in Coventry . In 1990 production started in Hallstadt , in the first German plant outside of Coburg. In Germany, another plant followed in Gera in 1991 , which was relocated to Meerane , near the Volkswagen plant in Zwickau-Mosel , in 1997 for just-in-sequence production of door systems . In accordance with this concept from procurement logistics , a large number of production facilities have been built at home and abroad through new construction or acquisition. The international expansion took place mainly in North America and Asia.

Worldwide expansion since 2001

In the 21st century, the family business grew primarily through various takeovers. In 2002, the locking system activities of Robert Bosch GmbH were taken over and the new locking systems business area established. In 2004 the window regulator business of Maxion Sistemas in Brazil was acquired, followed a year later by the purchase of 40 percent of the company shares in the Turkish window regulator manufacturer Pressan AS When Michael Stoschek transferred the chairmanship of the management to Jürgen Otto at the end of 2005 after 34 years Most successful business year in the company's history to date: the company generated annual sales of 2.2 billion euros and employed around 9,000 people at 37 locations in 19 countries. In 2006 Brose left the Association of the Bavarian Metal and Electrical Industry and has not been bound by collective bargaining ever since.

In April 2008 Brose added electric drives for window regulators, sunroofs and seat belt tensioners to its product range by purchasing the electric motors division of Continental AG . With the establishment of the new Engines business unit, the number of employees grew from just under 10,000 to over 14,000. Since then the company has been divided into the three business areas Seat, Door and Drives.

At the beginning of 2011, a joint venture was founded with SEW-Eurodrive with the aim of developing drives for electromobility. In 2011 Brose is the fifth largest family-owned automotive supplier in the world in terms of sales. A total of 8% of the business volume flows annually into the development of new products and processes, with the focus on the development of products that contribute to reducing fuel consumption. This year the company is expanding its activities in Asia and locating development and research in Shanghai. The foundation stone for another plant is laid in Chongqing, which means Brose has five locations in China. The automotive supplier opens a factory for window regulators and seat height adjustments in Pune, India. Brose plans to intensify its global activities in Asia in the future.

In the “Success Factor Family” competition sponsored by the federal government, Brose received the innovation award for the Brose Kids Club in May 2012 and was recognized for its family-friendly corporate philosophy. In autumn 2012, the second just-in-sequence plant for door systems in China will open with a further production site in Beijing . The process from order receipt to delivery ready for installation at the Beijing Benz Automotive plant eight kilometers away takes only 300 minutes.

In April 2013 Brose received the coveted award for the first time for the US automotive supplier industry for the sensor for contactless opening of the tailgate with the PACE Award. In the US state of Michigan, the company supports the introduction of the dual training system that is common in Germany and thus secures qualified young people for its four locations in the USA at the time.

New production facilities in South Africa (seating systems) and Bremen (door systems) expand production capacities in 2014. The first pedelec electric motor will go into series production in autumn at Brose Antriebstechnik GmbH & Co in Berlin in cooperation with the bicycle manufacturer Rotwild. Due to the increasing electrification and digitization in vehicles, Brose is investing in a test center in Würzburg to measure electromagnetic compatibility.

In 2015, a new plant for door systems, which produces for Fiat, opens in Goiana, Brazil. The foundation stone will be laid in autumn for a new plant in Prievidza in central Slovakia. In the logistics center at the location in Ostrava, Czech Republic, an automatic high-bay warehouse and small parts warehouse is put into operation, in which the transport takes place without a forklift. Brose is present with numerous innovations at the IAA trade fairs in Frankfurt am Main and Auto Shanghai in China. With the Procurement Leaders Award and the Volkswagen Group Award, the company has received two renowned quality awards. The city of Coburg is honoring Max Brose's lifetime achievement by naming a street after the company founder.

In 2016, Brose set the course for the expansion of central technical and commercial functions in Bamberg. In the modern office complex, around 600 employees control global purchasing, development, electronics and information technology for the group of companies. Brose also opened a new administration building for 600 employees in Shanghai in April 2017. The aim is to consolidate and further expand the market position in China.

Shareholder

The company's shareholders are Michael Stoschek , his daughter Julia Stoschek and his son Maximilian Stoschek, as well as his older sister Christine Volkmann and her daughter. Michael Stoschek chairs the group's shareholders' meeting.

Locations

The Brose Group is present at the following locations worldwide:

literature

Web links

Commons : Brose vehicle parts  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  9. ↑ Motors from Brose and BMW Electromobility is on the advance in Berlin - Source: http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/ © 2015. March 6, 2015, accessed November 8, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Brose is investing in a modern test center in Würzburg - source: http://www.tvtouring.de/ © 2014. May 23, 2014, accessed November 8, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Laying of the foundation stone Brose Prievidza - source: http://www.brose.com/de/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/2015/Grundsteinlege-Brose-Prievidza.html/ © 2015. (No longer available online.) October 1, 2015, archived from the original on November 8, 2016 ; accessed on November 8, 2016 .
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  13. ↑ Volkswagen honors the best suppliers - Source: http://www.automobil-industrie.vogel.de/ © 2015. July 27, 2015, accessed November 8, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Decision in Coburg City Council votes for Max-Brose-Straße - Source: http://www.sueddeutsche.de/ © 2015. May 21, 2015, accessed November 8, 2016 .
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