Autovista
| Autovista International AG
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 2000 |
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Pfäffikon , Switzerland
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| management | Lindsey Roberts ( CEO ) |
| Number of employees | 800 |
| Branch | Services |
| Website | www.autovistagroup.com |
The car Vista International AG , based in Pfäffikon in the canton of Schwyz is a service company for the international car trade. Autovista emerged from the merger of the Swiss car market research company Eurotax with the British motor vehicle market observer Glass's Information Systems, was initially named EurotaxGlass's and, since 2017, the Autovista Group . The company operates in 31 countries and employs 800 people. Autovista has information on over 360,000 old and new vehicles - from cars and LCVs to motorcycles. The customers are automobile manufacturers, dealers, fleet and leasing companies , workshop and repair companies, financial institutions, insurance groups and suppliers of the vehicle industry.
history
Glass's was founded in 1933 by William Glass in Great Britain and accordingly has extensive records of the motor vehicle market that were brought into the new joint venture.
In 1957 Hanns W. Schwacke published a list in Frankfurt am Main for the first time with the prices of numerous used cars, about which he had collected information in a systematic market observation. In 1961, the Eurotax pioneer Helmuth H. Lederer was the first in Austria to publish price news for used cars, after he had noticed great demand from car dealers and sellers. In 1971 the two merged and a few years later expanded their activities to other countries under the name 'Eurotax'. The blue and yellow Eurotax lists, in Germany the Schwacke list , which contain information about the value of used cars, are particularly well known . The merger in 2000 of the Swiss car market research company Eurotax with the British car market observer Glass`s Information Systems , '' was carried out by the investor group HMTF (formerly Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Inc. ), which had previously bought the company. In 2006 the new large company was acquired by the British private equity company Candover for 480 million euros.
Schwacke GmbH
The Schwacke GmbH , headquartered in Frankfurt am Main ( Hessen ) is the German subsidiary of Auto Vista International AG. The company is headed by Thorsten Barg, currently has 86 employees and 2014 sales of around 12.5 million euros . Hanns W. Schwacke founded the company as a publisher in 1957 and established the classic Schwacke list for passenger cars as the standard for determining used car prices. Today the service provider offers automotive market data, analyzes and software solutions with a focus on residual value determination and management as well as damage calculation.
Individual evidence
- ↑ New boss at Schwacke , June 19, 2015
- ↑ a b Federal Gazette : Annual financial statements for the financial year from January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2014