GC group
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1975 |
| Seat | Bremen , Germany |
| management | Thomas Werner, André Wedemeyer, Uwe Niederprüm |
| Number of employees | 22,000 |
| Branch | Building technology wholesalers, electrical, roof technology, civil engineering and industrial technology |
| Website | www.gc-gruppe.de |
The GC Wholesale Contor GmbH , shortly GC Group is a composite of wholesale company for products of home automation, which was established in 1975. The holding company for the corporate relationship is Cordes & Graefe KG in Bremen.
Structure, management, fields of activity
The GC Group comprises more than 100 independent partner houses and is in Germany and 16 other European countries (Norway, Netherlands, Belgium, Bulgaria, Luxembourg, France, Austria , Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Poland, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Italy). It offers services and products for all building services in the areas of sanitary, heating, air conditioning / ventilation, electrical, installation, roof technology, civil engineering and industrial technology. All partner houses of the GC Group are under the management of personally liable partners and are networked with more than 850 locations throughout Germany. In addition to the main buildings, this includes the express pick-up warehouses for the licensed tradesmen, as well as 240 ELEMENTS specialist exhibitions in the fields of sanitary , heating and energy. The subsidiaries HTI , EFG and DTG are affiliated with the GC Group, with the GUT Group, a wholesale association for building and environmental technology, the GC Group cooperates in various areas, including marketing, IT and logistics.
Corporate management
Cordes & Graefe KG in Bremen - the holding company of the GC Group - is led by the partners Thomas Werner, André Wedemeyer and Uwe Niederprüm.
history
founding
On November 1st, 1921, August Cordes and Alfred Graefe founded the tube wholesaler Cordes & Graefe in Bremen. Initially he only sold one product: tubes. After Heinz Graefe withdrew from the company, Friedrich Carl Hollweg took over a share in 1933. August Cordes, in turn, bequeathed shares in the company to his son "Hans" Cordes shortly afterwards. Hollweg and Cordes gave the company the decisive new direction and successfully expanded the tube trade into a wholesale business for building technology .
War and post-war periods
During the Second World War , the company was almost completely destroyed by bombs. Only a small stock of pipes was saved in the chaos of war and relocated to the countryside, making it possible to continue working. In order to be able to meet customer requirements even better, Cordes & Graefe expanded the range to include sanitary products at an early stage . The range of heating and hot water was expanded in the 1950s and soon also in the area of air conditioning and ventilation systems . The roofing and electrical engineering products followed later.
GC group
A generation change at Cordes & Graefe followed in the 50s and 60s. Uwe Hollweg moved to the top of the company in 1956, which he initially ran together with his father Friedrich-Carl as a personally liable partner. Ten years later he was followed by his brother Klaus Hollweg.
In 1966, the most important corporate policy decision was made with the distribution channel declaration. Cordes & Graefe thus defined the 3-stage distribution channel and concentrated exclusively on sales to skilled craftsmen. In the next few years the first company investments in other trading companies followed.
In 1975, the GC Group was founded in Bremen as a specialist wholesaler for building technology, consisting of the family businesses Cordes & Graefe Bremen, Wilhelm Gienger GmbH Munich and Kornwestheim Stuttgart as well as the cooperation partners Gottschall & Sohn Düsseldorf. In doing so, they relied on a decentralized model right from the start, but left individual responsibility on site with the respective houses. Several companies were added as early as 1976, including HS-C Hempelmann KG.
In the 1980s and 1990s, the GC Group expanded and in 1988 first incorporated Krupp Haustechnik, then Mannesmann Haustechnik in 1998 and in 1999 the trading houses of the heating manufacturer Brötje . In 1994 the activities in the field of civil engineering and industrial technology were outsourced . The company Handel für Tiefbau und Industrietechnik (HTI) was founded. Since 2002, the electrical activities in the EFG Group and the special area of roof technology have been combined in the DTG Group.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 22.6 " N , 8 ° 48 ′ 43" E