Doppelmayr / Garaventa Group

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Doppelmayr / Garaventa Group
(Doppelmayr Holding SE)

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legal form Corporation
founding 1893
Seat Wolfurt , Vorarlberg , Austria
AustriaAustria 
management Michael Doppelmayr (since 1992)
Number of employees 2933 (2017/18)
sales EUR 846 million (2017/18)
Branch Cable car, plant construction, transport
Website www.doppelmayr.com

Doppelmayr in Wolfurt

The Doppelmayr / Garaventa Group , headquartered in Wolfurt ( Vorarlberg , Austria ), is the world market leader in ropeway construction . Further locations are in Goldau ( Switzerland ), Salt Lake City ( Utah , USA ), Lana ( Italy ), Saint-Jérôme ( Quebec , Canada ) as well as further branches worldwide.

In addition to circulating , pendulum , fixed-clamp and detachable cable cars, the company also plans and produces adventure railways, material railways, high-bay storage systems , parking garage systems, long-distance continuous conveyors and cable liners .

history

Doppelmayr roots

Name plate on a surface lift from 1970
A high-bay warehouse for 55,000 Euro pallets under construction by the subsidiary LTW

The Austrian family company Doppelmayr was founded in 1893 by Konrad Doppelmayr (1855–1933) in the Rickenbach district of Wolfurt . In addition to repairs for agriculture and textile factories ( Hämmerle , Schindler etc.), forage cutting machines, hatchets, axes and sapie were made. From 1900 Konrad Doppelmayr began producing stranglers, cider and wine presses. Most of these were delivered to wine growers in South Tyrol.

In 1928 Emil Doppelmayr (1889–1967), son of Konrad Doppelmayr, took over the management. In 1937 Emil built Austria's first drag lift in Zürs am Arlberg on the initiative of Vorarlberg ski pioneer Sepp Bildstein (1891–1970) .

During the time of National Socialism in Austria from 1938 to 1945, Doppelmayr was a military enterprise. As a sub- supplier of the Friedrichshafen gear factory , parts for tanks and assault boats were produced. In January 1945 150 people worked in the company, 61 of them were foreign workers or prisoners of war . After the end of the war, the company had 34 employees. The construction of ski lifts was resumed as early as 1946 (Ebenberglift, Zell am See ), and in 1953 the first overseas order was placed (Mount Gabriel and Mount Plante ski centers, Canada).

When Emil Doppelmayr's son, Artur Doppelmayr (1922–2017), joined the company in 1955, he pushed the further development of the rope-drawn systems. In 1977 the company received the state award and has been allowed to use the federal coat of arms in business transactions ever since . In 1996, Doppelmayr acquired the cable car division of the Swiss company Von Roll in Thun . Von Roll built the world's first detachable chairlift in Flims in 1945 .

Roots of Garaventa and Fusion

The Swiss company Garaventa goes back to Karl Garaventa (1888–1965), who in 1928 built a material ropeway up the Rigi . In 1957 the company Karl Garaventa's Söhne for cable car and machine construction was founded , which was internationally active, especially in the construction of large aerial tramways .

In 2002 the two companies merged to form the "Doppelmayr / Garaventa Group". Garaventa brought WSO Städeli Lift , the Korneuburg cable car manufacturer Girak , CTEC USA and the cable car division of Swoboda Seilbahnbau , acquired in the early 1990s, into the group of companies . At the same time, Doppelmayr also took over the Swiss body builder CWA Constructions SA in Olten . The owners of Garaventa initially held a third of the new holding company, but later sold it to the owners of Doppelmayr. At the beginning of 2008, Doppelmayr began building a "Mountain Glider" system on its own factory premises in Wolfurt in order to be able to test and further develop vehicles for amusement parks there.

Corporate structure

The parent company is Doppelmayr Holding SE (based in Wolfurt, Austria) with the managing directors Michael Doppelmayr (CEO) and Hanno Ulmer. These include other stock corporations such as B. Doppelmayr Urban Transport Systems AG (Wolfurt) or Ropetrans Holding AG based in Rotkreuz, Switzerland. The merger of Doppelmayr and Garaventa was carried out in 2001/2002 via Ropetrans Holding AG. The delegates of the Board of Directors are Michael Doppelmayr, Hanno Ulmer and Werner Inderbitzin. The former Doppelmayr Holding AG was converted into an SE at the beginning of 2019.

80 percent of the shareholders in Doppelmayr Holding SE are AMD (Artur Michael Doppelmayr) private foundation and 10 percent each are Michael and Artur Doppelmayr.

Key figures

In 2017/18, the Doppelmayr / Garaventa Group was able to increase sales by 5.7% to EUR 846 million compared to the previous year.

Fiscal year Total turnover
in million euros
Employees
worldwide
2001/02 407 n / A
2002/03 418 n / A
2003/04 464 2,102
2004/05 490 2,099
2005/06 581 2.223
2006/07 659 2,479
2007/08 680 2,605
2008/09 616 2,660
2009/10 603 2,608
2010/11 618 2.214
2011/12 628 2,297
2012/13 795 2,378
2013/14 858 2,452
2014/15 794 2,546
2015/16 834 2,673
2016/17 801 2,720
2017/18 846 2,933
(including 1,462 in Austria)

(Source: press releases of the respective years )

n / A not specified

In 2012, Doppelmayr / Garaventa was the world market leader in the cable car sector with a market share of 60 percent. With subsidiaries, branches and agencies in more than 40 countries, the company has implemented 15,000 systems in 96 countries to date.

subsidiary company

Doppelmayr Cable Car

The company primarily builds products for local public transport. These systems are integrated into urban infrastructures, airports and convention centers as well as large industrial and administrative complexes.

Doppelmayr Transport Technology

DTT's material transport systems are used in the field of bulk and piece goods transport. The offer ranges from material ropeways to long-distance conveyor systems.

LTW Intralogistics

LTW's core competence is storage and retrieval machines for high-bay warehouses. In addition, the company supplies the associated conveyor technology and software for warehouse control and management. Founded by Doppelmayr in 1981 as a one-man company in the logistics sector, Peter Malin led LTW to become an internationally operating full-service provider with his own patents.

CWA Constructions

CWA Constructions, based in Olten , Switzerland, is a company of the Doppelmayr / Garaventa Group and manufacturer of rope and rail-bound vehicles. CWA cabins and gondolas are used in various cable car systems.

Input project development GmbH

Since it was founded in 1999, Input Projektentwicklungs GmbH has been planning, developing and implementing tourist experience offers for tourist regions around the world, mostly in connection with cable cars.

New projects

Since 2016, the restart of the Bregenzerwaldbahn ( Wälderbähnle ), which was discontinued in 1985, has been considered and this connection from Dornbirn to the Bregenzerwald can be realized by alternating rail and rope.

There are plans for a takeover and use of the 2017 acquired approximately 110,000 m 2 of land in the timber yard Zeil in the district of Ravensburg in Baden-Württemberg .

Projects (selection)

Middle station of the detachable 8-seater gondola lift on the Golm (near Matschwitz )
Cable liner in Las Vegas

Examples of cable car types:

literature

  • Thomas Götze: Internationalization strategies of industrial companies using the example of Konrad Doppelmayr & Sohn, Wolfurt . Thesis. University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck 1986, OBV .
  • Peter Busarello: The business premises for the introduction of service and maintenance contracts at Doppelmayr . Thesis. University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck 2000, OBV .
  • Michael Doppelmayr ( preface ): 1892–2012. 120 years of the Doppelmayr family business. An overview of the success story . ( Brochure ). Doppelmayr (Ed.), Wolfurt 2012. - Full text online (PDF; 2.3 MB)
  • Doppelmayr - Garaventa. International 2013 . Doppelmayr, Wolfurt 2013, OBV . (Edition 2003: OBV ).
  • We. Company newspaper for employees, their relatives and company pensioners . Doppelmayr, Wolfurt 1975–, OBV .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. a b Doppelmayr: 1892–2012. 120 years of the Doppelmayr family business .
  2. a b c Figures, data, facts of the Doppelmayr / Garaventa Group
  3. a b Doppelmayr: 1892–2012. 120 years of the Doppelmayr family business , p. 4 (unpaginated).
  4. ^ Burkhard Reis: Industry in 1945, Doppelmayr company . In: Heimat Wolfurt. Journal of the Heimatkundekreis , issue 17, March 1996, p. 20 . (PDF; 4.75 MB).
  5. The structure . In: Doppelmayr: 1892–2012. 120 years of the Doppelmayr family business , p. 6 (unpaginated).
  6. ^ Rebekka Haefeli: Willy Garaventa. Biography of the Swiss cable car pioneer . 2nd Edition. Here and now, Baden 2019, p. 56 .
  7. a b Julia Kern: Shares: Few industry heroes . Article on DiePresse.com from May 31, 2012; Retrieved June 2, 2012.
  8. Doppelmayr builds amusement vehicle test facility (from January 30, 2008)
  9. ^ Ownership structure of Doppelmayr Holding AG , on trendtop500.at. Retrieved April 14, 2016
  10. 846 million euros! Doppelmayr increases sales (November 21, 2018)
  11. Press releases . Doppelmayr Seilbahnen GmbH. Retrieved March 14, 201.
  12. Doppelmayr Cable Car
  13. Doppelmayr Transport Technology
  14. LTW Intralogistics
  15. ^ Peter Malin, Hans A. Guttner (authors), Heinz Langer (illustrator): The ten pranks , Langer Malin 1999
  16. NEWSFLOW Issue 4 2011
  17. ^ CWA Constructions
  18. Two companies - one team. Retrieved November 22, 2017 .
  19. "Wälderbahn": Cable car project into the forest (August 30, 2016)
  20. Doppelmayr gondola into the Allgäu (February 23, 2018)
  21. 3-S Pardatschgrat A2 in Ischgl. Retrieved May 12, 2019 . , at www.ischgl.com
  22. Doppelmayr cable car opened in Whistler Mountain
  23. Doppelmayr is building one of the largest cable cars in Europe over the Rhine to Koblenz Buga in: Rhein-Zeitung , November 27, 2008
  24. Bolivia: Doppelmayr connects large cities with a cable car. DiePresse.com, September 11, 2012
  25. Bolivia: Urban Doppelmayr cable car network opens DiePresse.com, May 30, 2014
  26. Khởi công cáp treo Hòn Thơm - Phú Quốc dài nhất thế giới (September 4, 2015) (Vietnamese), accessed on September 7, 2015
  27. World record: Doppelmayr is building the world's longest cable car in Vietnam (September 7, 2015) , accessed on September 7, 2015

Coordinates: 47 ° 27 '25.2 "  N , 9 ° 45' 14.4"  E