DONIC
| DONIC Sportartikel Vertriebs-GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1978 |
| Seat | Völklingen , Saarland |
| management | Frank Schreiner |
| Number of employees | 30 (January 31, 2019) |
| Branch | Sporting goods manufacturer |
| Website | www.donic.de |
Donic Sportartikel Vertriebs-GmbH (spelling: DONIC) is a German manufacturer and supplier of table tennis accessories. The company is based in Völklingen in the Saarland . Due to its sales structure, Donic does not deliver directly to end users, but to dealers in Germany and in over 80 countries worldwide.
history
Donic was founded in 1978 in Cologne by Georg Nicklas, a doctor of physics who also played successfully in the table tennis Bundesliga from 1973 to 1981 . The company's name is an acronym made up of letters from the title and name of the founder: Doktor (DO) Nicklas (NIC).
When Georg Nicklas wanted to move to Sweden in the early 1980s, he sold the company to the Schreiner family in 1984. Karlheinz Schreiner, himself a professional player and trainer, had founded the table tennis supplier Sport Schreiner in Völklingen twenty years earlier . A few years later he brought Donic from Cologne to Völklingen. Both companies have existed side by side since then.
In 1993 Frank Schreiner, the son of Karlheinz Schreiner, took over the management and signed the Olympic champion in table tennis, Jan-Ove Waldner , as brand ambassador . In 1994 the two world champions Mikael Appelgren and Jörgen Persson were also hired as Donic brand ambassadors. The Swedish trio won several world and European championships.
After the German school championships in 2000, Frank Schreiner signed the then twelve-year-old Dimitrij Ovtcharov for Donic. Ovtcharov is now a German national player and was No. 1 in the world rankings in January 2018. Ovtcharov ended the contract on January 1st, 2020 and switched to Tamasu Butterfly .
In 2016, a high-rise pallet warehouse was completed on the expanded company premises next to the headquarters.
Brand and products
In addition to its own brand Donic, the company sells the Japanese brands Nittaku (since 2000 as the exclusive agent for their balls in Europe) and Yasaka (since 1993 as the exclusive agent for Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Luxembourg).
Donic has been selling table tennis training machines from the American company Newgy Industries exclusively in Europe, Russia and Africa since 1998.
In 2000 Donic concluded a license sales agreement for the worldwide distribution of Donic hobby rackets with the German company MTS Sportartikel Vertriebs-GmbH and cooperated with Schildkröt for the marketing of table tennis balls .
A carbon racket from Donic received the Red Dot Design Award in 2009.
Donic's most important sales products are racket rubbers , which v. a. in Asia with a focus on China.
Donic has been a table sponsor at national and international events for many years:
- Table outfitter of DTTB basic events for over 20 years.
- Table outfitter for the TT World Championships in New Delhi in 1987 and in Bremen in 2006
- Table supplier for the TT European Championships 2007 in Belgrade (Serbia), 2009 in Stuttgart, 2012 in Herning (Denmark), 2013 in Schwechat (Austria) and 2017 in Luxembourg
- Table supplier for the ITTF Men's World Cup 2011 in Paris (France), 2017 in Liège (Belgium), 2018 in Paris (France) and 2019 in Chengdu (China)
In addition, there is a long-term equipment agreement with the German Table Tennis Association.
Donic was the textile supplier for the German national teams from 1994 to 2010. Donic is currently (08/2019) textile supplier for other national teams like Austria (since 2006), Switzerland (since 2005) and Luxembourg (since 2002).
Product manager at Donic is the former double world champion Steffen Fetzner .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Top supplier for lightning-fast ball artists Website of the Saarbrücker Zeitung, October 28, 2015.
- ^ Karlheinz Schreiner - Pioneer with a Vision Website of the German Table Tennis Association, May 23, 2017.
- ↑ NITTAKU European distribution , donic.com. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
- ^ Yasaka Worldwide distributors . yasaka.se. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
- ↑ site Newgy - Dealers. Retrieved October 5, 2019 .
- ↑ site Newgy - International. Retrieved October 5, 2019 .
- ↑ The traditional Schildkröt brand . donic-schildkroet.com. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
- ↑ CarboTec wins "Red Dot Design Award 2009" . sport-insider.de, accessed on October 3, 2019.
- ↑ Willi Baur: DONIC invites you to the table . Website of the German Table Tennis Association, April 30, 2006.
- ↑ EC 2012 will be a DONIC-event 2012 European table tennis Championships, Herning, Denmark, website bordtennisportalen.dk
- ↑ European Championships 2013 - Men's Team Event All About Table Tennis, EM in Schwechat, Austria, Tische DONIC.
- ↑ Agreement Extended with Donic for Men's World Cup website The Olympics Sports, May 4, 2012 Design.
- ↑ A step higher, Dimitrij Ovtcharov wins in Liège ITTF website, October 22, 2017.
- ↑ German and Chinese stars shine on Day Two at Disneyland! ITTF website, October 20, 2018.
- ↑ 2019 ITTF Men's World Cup website of the ITTF, Event Information.
- ↑ Sponsoring DONIC remains DTTB textile supplier . Press release of the German Table Tennis Association on the OSC Berlin website
- ↑ Bulletin of the Fédération Luxembourgeoise de Tennis de Table 78th FLTT CONGRESS, April 6, 2019
- ↑ Interview on mytischtennis.de from May 13, 2019, accessed on October 3, 2019