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Fiege Logistik Holding Stiftung & Co. KG

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legal form Foundation & Co. KG
founding 1873
Seat Greven , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Felix Fiege (CEO), Jens Fiege (CEO), Alfred Messink, Martin Rademaker, Peter Scherbel, Stefan Thies (CEO)
Number of employees 19,000 (annual average 2019)
sales 1.7 billion euros (2019)
Branch Contract logistics
Website www.fiege.com
As of April 17, 2020

Company headquarters at Münster / Osnabrück Airport in Greven

Fiege Logistik Holding Stiftung & Co. KG (proper spelling: FIEGE ) is an internationally active German logistics - and goods transport company based in Greven . The company is the parent company of the group called Fiege Group .

history

In 1873, the carter and farmer Joan Joseph Fiege (1835–1905) founded his own trucking business in Greven, which he initially only ran on a modest scale alongside the farm. He drove coal in the neighborhood and set up a small camp. In addition, he took on orders from the local grocers and transported groceries and household appliances for them. From 1884 he began transporting wood for the Greven timber trading company Sahle as well as delivering agricultural products to the then state capital of Münster .

After the death of Joan Joseph Fiege in 1905, his son Josef Fiege took over the company. He continued the business of transporting groceries. After the inauguration of the Dortmund-Ems Canal in 1899, Josef Fiege also took over the transport of stones and building materials that were delivered to the port by barges.

In 1924 the company acquired a used VOMAG truck. Two years later, more trucks were bought. In 1929 the company started long-distance transport and delivered goods to Berlin and Kassel, among other places.

Josef Fiege died in 1938 at the age of 67. His son, Josef Fiege jun., Took over the business. In September 1939, the Oberpräsident of Westphalia declared the Fiege company to be a "vital transport company" and Josef Fiege was practically expropriated.

After 1945 Josef Fiege began to rebuild the company. After his accidental death in 1959, his brother-in-law and sister-in-law Heinz took over the management together with Anne Fischbach. In 1967 Josef Fiege's eldest son, Heinz Fiege, joined the company. In 1974 his brother Hugo Fiege followed him. The brothers continued to expand the business. The change from a forwarding and transport company to an international logistics group began with the three-storey new headquarters and administration building in Reckenfeld and the hexagonal goods distribution center built next to it.

In 1999 Fiege moved to the newly built system center at Münster-Osnabrück Airport.

In July 2012, Fiege put the Esprit Distribution Center Europe (DCE) in Mönchengladbach into operation for the fashion manufacturer Esprit . The logistics center takes care of the Europe-wide supply of all Esprit-owned stores and wholesalers. At the end of 2012, Fiege expanded the joint venture Apollo Fiege Integrated Logistics Pvt. Ltd. its market focus on India . The partner of the joint venture is Apollo LogiSolutions Ltd., which belongs to the Indian Apollo Group. The company operates in India as an integrated logistics service provider that offers complete supply chain solutions including services such as air and sea freight, customs clearance, transport services as well as warehouse processing and value-added services.

In 2012, when Heinz and Hugo Fiege left the board, an important step was taken in handing the company over to the fifth Fiege generation. Jens Fiege, son of Heinz Fiege, headed the international division from 2004, initially as CEO, and has been a member of the management board of Fiege Logistik Holding Stiftung & Co. KG since 2009. Felix Fiege, son of Hugo Fiege, joined the management level of the group in 2008 as managing director of the Fiege Engineering division and has also been a member of the management board since 2012. In 2015 it was expanded by Alfred Messink and Peter Scherbel. In 2019, Dr. Stefan Thies and Martin Rademaker appointed to the management committee. Jens Fiege and Felix Fiege have since taken over the chairmanship of the board.

In October 2017, Fiege opened a logistics center for Zalando in Gryfino near Szczecin in Poland with an area of ​​around 130,000 square meters. In addition, the start-up Westphalia DataLab was jointly founded with a team from the Münster University of Applied Sciences. The start-up deals with data analysis for companies.

At the former headquarters in Greven-Reckenfeld, a 90,000 square meter logistics location was built in 2017 after extensive renovation and expansion measures. The official opening of the Mega Center took place on August 30, 2019 by Prime Minister Armin Laschet. In addition to smaller customers, eCommerce services are primarily handled for the customer MediaMarktSaturn, for whom Fiege has been a logistics partner since 2012 in Germany and since 2010 in the Netherlands and Austria.

In 2018, the Fiege company founded the Fiege X Log joint venture with Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof . From 2020 this will take over the entire logistics of the department store group.

Company data

The Fiege Group is a logistics service provider with over 150 locations in 14 countries in Europe and the Far East . The company operates logistics centers, especially so-called mega-centers, and has a total of around 3 million square meters of storage and logistics space. As a contract logistics services cover the entire inventory management chain - from procurement logistics , production logistics and distribution logistics on the fulfillment , the reverse logistics to 3PL and LLP solutions. Another branch of the Fiege Group is Fiege tec , which deals with vehicle construction and services for commercial vehicles and takes over the fleet management of the Fiege Group.

For the 2019 financial year, sales amounted to 1.7 billion euros (previous year: 1.6 billion euros). In 2019, an average of 19,000 employees (previous year: 15,000) were employed in the group.

Josef Fiege Foundation

The Josef Fiege Foundation was established in 1988. This gives donations to institutions and projects that are committed to the well-being of people and nature. The Josef Fiege Foundation is an independent foundation under private law. The purpose of the foundation is to develop appropriate recommendations in particular, but not exclusively, for the companies of the Fiege Group with regard to the sustainable use of donations for ecological, social or medical purposes. The foundation determines the need for donations and checks donation requests made to them in order to make recommendations to people and companies willing to donate. Another purpose of the foundation is to organize events with ecological or social goals. Projects and institutions with a clear connection to the home region of the donors have been and are supported by the foundation to a particular extent.

honors and awards

In 1992 Fiege received the German Logistics Prize from the Federal Logistics Association. In 1996, Heinz and Hugo Fiege were awarded eco-manager of the year for their role as pioneers in ecological logistics by WWF Germany and the magazine Capital .

In 2005 the brothers Heinz and Hugo Fiege were inducted into the Logistics Hall of Fame due to their pioneering work in contract logistics and ecological logistics . The company also received a Frost & Sullivan Product Innovation Award in 2005 and was included in the list of Hidden Champions in 2007. In the same year, Heinz and Hugo Fiege received the LEO Award from the Deutsche Logistik-Zeitung .

In March 2009, the Fiege Group won the Controller Prize 2009 from the International Controller Association (ICV) for innovative solutions, with which a fundamental change process in the logistics controlling of the Fiege Group was carried out.

In 2017, Fiege and the robotics start-up Magazino were awarded second place at the German Logistics Prize 2017.

In October 2018, the Ministry for Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitization and Energy awarded Fiege the 2018 Digital Economy Prize in the large company category.

In May 2019, Fiege received the Axia Best Managed Companies Award 2019. The auditing and consulting firm Deloitte, WirtschaftsWoche and BDI recognize excellently managed medium-sized companies with the award and seal of approval.

In June 2019, Fiege also received the LogiVisor Award for "Best Contract Logistics Provider in Fashion & Lifestyle". The LogiVisor Awards were presented for the first time this year; the competition was launched by the Gewerbegebiete.de settlement platform, which aims to put innovative logistics solutions in the spotlight. Successful projects in the areas of fashion & lifestyle, retail & e-commerce, industry and consumer products were evaluated by a jury of 21 experts.

In December 2019, the European Commission's Startup Europe Partnership (SEP) initiative awarded Fiege an “Open Innovation Challenger” for the second time in a row. The Fiege Group is one of four German companies that were awarded a total of 36 companies in the annual ranking.

In 2020, Fiege was named the "Best Logistics Brand 2020" in the field of contract logistics services in the readers 'and experts' choice of the specialist magazine Logistik heute and the Bundesvereinigung Logistik (BVL).

Publications

Publications issued by the Fiege Group :

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Company website of the Fiege Logistik Stiftung & Co. KG, accessed on October 2, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b c At a glance. The Fiege Group in figures Website of the Fiege Logistik Stiftung & Co. KG, accessed on April 17, 2020.
  3. ^ Company website of the Fiege Logistik Stiftung & Co. KG, accessed on January 20, 2020.
  4. ↑ Press release of the Fiege Logistik Stiftung & Co. KG from October 17, 2017
  5. ^ A piece of Silicon Valley in Münsterland: Prof. Dr. Reiner Kurzhals and Cornelius found the Westphalia DataLab
  6. ↑ Press release from Fiege Logistik Stiftung & Co. KG from October 24, 2017
  7. ↑ Press release from Fiege Logistik Stiftung & Co. KG from September 26, 2018
  8. ↑ At a glance. The Fiege Group in numbers. Website of the Fiege Logistik Stiftung & Co. KG, accessed on April 17, 2020.
  9. ↑ Consolidated financial statements for the 2018 financial year of Fiege Logistik Holding Stiftung & Co. KG . In: Bundesanzeiger , July 30, 2019, accessed on October 2, 2019.
  10. ↑ The Chronicle of the FIEGE Group from 1873 to the present day Website of the Fiege Logistik Stiftung & Co. KG, accessed on August 17, 2020.
  11. ↑ Heinz Fiege and Hugo Fiege ( Memento from April 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) in the Logistics Hall of Fame .
  12. ↑ Controller Prize 2009 goes to the Fiege Group . ( Memento of July 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Press release from the International Controller Association.
  13. ↑ Press release from Fiege Logistik Stiftung & Co. KG from October 26, 2017
  14. ↑ Press release from Fiege Logistik Stiftung & Co. KG from October 15, 2018
  15. ↑ Press release from Fiege Logistik Stiftung & Co. KG dated May 13, 2019
  16. ↑ Press release of the Fiege Logistik Stiftung & Co. KG from June 11, 2019
  17. ↑ Press release from Fiege Logistik Stiftung & Co. KG dated December 16, 2019
  18. ↑ The chronicle of the Fiege Group, from 1873 to today. Website of the Fiege Logistik Stiftung & Co. KG, accessed on August 17, 2020.