Dachser

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Dachser Group SE & Co. KG

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legal form SE & Co. KG
founding 1930
Seat Kempten (Allgäu) , Germany
GermanyGermany 
management Bernhard Simon ( CEO ), Alexander Tonn, Michael Schilling, Burkhard Eling, Edoardo Podestà, Stefan Hohm, Robert Erni ( CFO ) (from 01/2021)
Number of employees approx. 30,995 (2019)
sales € 5.66 billion (2019)

Consolidated net sales

Branch logistics
Website www.dachser.de

The Dachser Group SE & Co. KG , based in Kempten (Allgäu) is a German logistics company owned by the family. Dachser in the fields European logistics (European Logistics), is air & - sea freight (Air & Sea Logistics) as well as food logistics (Food Logistics) represented. In the field of contract logistics , storage and value-added services are offered in addition to transport.

History of the company

The company was founded in 1930 by Thomas Dachser . In the middle of the global economic crisis , Dachser began transporting Allgäu cheese to the Rhineland in 1930 . In 1934 the first branch was opened in Memmingen , four years later a branch was opened in Neuss in the Rhineland. Dachser became the leading freight forwarding company in the Allgäu.

During World War II, almost all of the company's vehicles and drivers were confiscated by the state. All branches were destroyed in the war. Business was resumed soon after the war, and in 1949 “Thomas Dachser Spedition” was entered in the commercial register . The company's great growth began in the 1950s. A large number of branches were opened in Germany and international transports started by land, air and sea. In 1951, the first air freight office opened at Munich Airport . At the end of the decade, the company had 1,000 employees who generated sales of more than 70 million DM.

In 1969 the company was one of the founding members of Kombiverkehr KG. The aim of the company was to network rail traffic with road traffic . Its purpose was, among other things, to organize the transport of trucks and swap bodies without a tractor by rail for their limited partners . This was one of the reasons that Dachser converted its entire fleet to swap bodies by 1971. The selected external dimensions of the interchangeable load carriers have also been adopted by other manufacturers and transport companies and have thus become standard in the industry.

Head office in Kempten

In 1979 the company founder Thomas Dachser died. His company shares were taken over by his two daughters Christa Rohde-Dachser and Annemarie Simon.

In 1982 the company offered its customers the storage and transport of temperature-sensitive foods . This created the new fresh produce division (today Food Logistics). In 1994 the company introduced the NVE ( shipping unit number ) for package identification . The barcode has thus established itself as a unique identification number in transport logistics. In 1999 the company bought the French logistics service provider Graveleau in order to expand its network in Europe and North Africa. Since then, Dachser has been expanding in Asia, Europe and the United States.

Since January 2005, the grandson of company founder Thomas Dachser, Bernhard Simon , has been the management spokesman. With the acquisition of the Haugstedt Group in 2005, the company expanded its network in Northern Europe. In addition, the “Logimasters & Dachser” joint venture was founded in Brazil and the presence in the Czech Republic strengthened with the acquisition of the logistics company EST . In 2010, Dachser acquired the British logistics company Ja Leach Transport Ltd. in Rochdale .

At the beginning of 2013, the company acquired the Spanish air and sea freight forwarding company Transunion . The company also expanded in Spain, Turkey, Argentina, Peru and Mexico. In January 2013, Dachser took over the Spanish logistics service provider Azkar with headquarters in Coslada ; this grew by over 3,000 employees at 91 locations in Spain and Portugal. In October 2013, the company acquired the majority in the Finnish sea and air freight forwarding company Oy Waco Logistics Finland . The company, which is headquartered in Vantaa in the south of Finland, has additional locations in the economic centers of Lahti , Oulu , Tampere and Vaasa . With 54 employees, Dachser generated sales of almost 24 million euros in 2012.

In February 2015 the company announced its name change to SE & Co. KG . The Road Logistics and Air & Sea Logistics business areas were transferred to the wholly owned subsidiary Dachser SE.

network

Dachser in Mecklenburg

The European network consists of branches that are linked to one another on a daily basis through a mix of direct trips, platforms and hubs. The logistic hubs in Europe, the Eurohubs, are located in Überherrn , Bratislava and Clermont-Ferrand .

The intercontinental connection takes place via the global air and sea freight network of Dachser Air & Sea Logistics with 170 locations and local partners.

In 2019, Dachser employed a total of around 30,995 people at 393 locations, with consolidated net sales of EUR 5.66 billion. 80.6 million items with a total weight of 41.0 million tons were sent.

Awards

In 2008, Bernhard Simon received the LEO (Logistics, Excellence, Optimization) award in the category “Entrepreneur of the Year” from the Deutsche Verkehrszeitung. Also in 2008, the INTES Academy for Family Businesses and the Impulse magazine named Bernhard Simon “ Family Business Owner of the Year ”.

As part of the study "Image Ranking Transport and Logistics Services 2014" by the market research institute Kleffmann on behalf of the Munich weekly magazine VerkehrsRundschau, Dachser received the highest number of points in the categories "General cargo and general cargo transport", "Food and consumer goods logistics" and "Air freight." and international sea container transport ".

literature

  • Erker, Paul: The logistics company Dachser: The driving force of the family as a success factor in global competition . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-593-37928-9 .

Web links

Commons : Dachser  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robert Erni (54) becomes CFO of DACHSER. FAMILY BUSINESS in FOKUS (FiFo) , June 26, 2020, accessed on June 26, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b facts. dachser.com, 2020, accessed April 7, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Graveleau is now called Dachser . Retrieved June 29, 2015.
  4. ↑ Dachser buys Haugsted Group . Retrieved June 29, 2015.
  5. ↑ Brazilian joint venture . Retrieved June 29, 2015.
  6. ↑ Dachser expands network in Great Britain . Retrieved June 29, 2015.
  7. ↑ Dachser acquires Transunion . Retrieved June 29, 2015.
  8. ↑ Dachser acquires Azkar . Retrieved June 29, 2015.
  9. ↑ Dachser takes over majority in Oy Waco Logistics Finland . Retrieved June 29, 2015.
  10. ↑ Dachser changes its legal form to SE & Co. KG . Retrieved June 29, 2015.
  11. ^ Air & Sea Logistics Network . Accessed in 2020.
  12. ↑ facts . Retrieved April 7, 2020.
  13. ↑ Laureate LEO 2008 . Archived from the original on September 23, 2015. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 29, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dvz.de
  14. ↑ Video interview - Bernhard Simon (Dachser GmbH) . Retrieved June 29, 2015.
  15. ↑ Dachser wins three image awards . Retrieved June 29, 2015.

Coordinates: 47 ° 44 ′ 51 ″  N , 10 ° 18 ′ 7.7 ″  E