Fricke Group

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Fricke Group

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founding 1923
Seat Heeslingen , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Hans-Peter Fricke
Holger Wachholtz
Number of employees 2,721 (as of 03/2020)
Branch Agricultural technology, garden technology, commercial vehicles, spare parts
Website www.fricke.de

The Fricke Group is a group of companies from Heeslingen in Lower Saxony . The company is still in family hands today. Fricke's areas of activity include agricultural machinery trade ( Fricke Landmaschinen ), development, production and sales of agricultural technology ( Saphir Maschinenbau ), commercial vehicle trade ( Fricke Nutzfahrzeuge ), trade in spare parts and accessories ( Granit Parts ), municipal and garden technology ( Gartenland ) as well as trade in commercial vehicle spare parts and vehicle components ( Hofmeister & Meincke ).

The Fricke Group has 64 locations in 25 countries around the world.

history

Master blacksmith Dietrich Fricke founded the company in Heeslingen in 1923 and moved into the first workshop a year later. In 1933 the first five employees could be hired. The company expanded its capacities in 1948 with a 240 square meter hall and Dietrich Fricke expanded his business. From then on, agricultural machinery and tractors were part of the offer.

When Dietrich Fricke died in 1953, his then 23-year-old son, Wilhelm Fricke, took over the business. In 1958, Wilhelm Fricke sold the first Claas combine harvesters, which replaced the old combine binders and threshing machines. In addition, with Venezuela, Fricke opened up a new sales market for mower binders in South America. In 1959 the company moved to today's company premises in Heeslingen. The 6,000 square meter plot of land acquired last year initially only housed a workshop, a spare parts store and an office.

After Hanomag tractor production was discontinued in 1972 , the Fricke Group bought large quantities of spare parts from the discontinued Hanomag production. With the Hanomag spare parts, the company expanded its range and gained worldwide sales opportunities. Fricke later also produced the desired parts in small series. At the beginning of 1973, the group placed production orders for simple devices such as meadow rollers with Polish companies.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Fricke took over a former LPG workshop with six fitters in Wotenick near Demmin . A year later, the Fricke Group founded Fricke Landtechnik GmbH.

In 1992 Wilhelm Fricke withdrew from active business life. The company management was transferred to his son Hans-Peter Fricke and Holger Wachholtz as additional managing directors.

With the takeover of the DAF and Fiat truck agency in 1993, the Fricke Group expanded its portfolio to include commercial vehicles and vans.

Since 2001, Fricke has been expanding the granite spare parts trade and opening branches in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Romania, Hungary, Poland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Great Britain, and North America , Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The company also has its own purchasing offices in China, India, Taiwan and Turkey and is active in 15 other countries.

In 2013 the traditional Bremen company Hofmeister & Meincke became part of the Fricke Group.

In 2019, the Fricke Group and Jungheinrich founded the Trex.Parts joint venture, a dealer for forklift spare parts.

Today, the Fricke Group claims to have 2,721 full-time employees, including 200 trainees, at 64 locations in 25 countries.

Divisions

The group of companies includes:

  • Fricke agricultural machinery
  • Fricke commercial vehicles
  • Granite Parts
  • Sapphire engineering
  • Garden land
  • Hofmeister & Meincke
Companies deals Customers Locations
Fricke agricultural machinery New and used machines Farmers, contractors Germany: Heeslingen, Winsen (Luhe), Harsefeld, Lamstedt, Verden, Soltau, Steimbke, Sulingen, Demmin, Martensdorf, Züssow, Gustow, Neubrandenburg; Poland: Mragowo
Fricke commercial vehicles DAF commercial vehicles, Fiat vans, new and used Germany: Bremerhaven, Delmenhorst, Heeslingen & Neumünster
Granite Parts Agricultural spare parts, accessories and components Agricultural machinery dealers, construction machinery dealers, motorists, industry Belgium, Denmark, Germany, England, France, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Hungary
Sapphire engineering Development, production and sales of agricultural technology Agricultural machinery dealer Germany: Heeslingen
Garden land Franchise system for motorists and agricultural machinery dealers Motorists and agricultural machinery dealers Germany: Heeslingen, Zeven
Hofmeister & Meincke Commercial vehicle parts, vehicle construction systems and components Commercial vehicle workshops, forwarding agents & haulage companies, municipal companies, trading companies, vehicle construction companies, metal processing companies Germany: Bremen, Berlin, Bielefeld, Böblingen, Bremerhaven, Haan, Hamburg, Hemau, Kloster Lehnin, Koblenz, Langenhagen, Magdeburg, Oldenburg, Stendal, Weyhe

Individual evidence

  1. a b Company structure ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fricke.de
  2. locations
  3. a b c History of the Fricke Group , accessed on December 25, 2016
  4. Machines delivered to Venezuela ( Memento from October 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) In: Zevener Zeitung, August 10, 2009
  5. site Trex.Parts GmbH & Co. KG. In: Trex.Parts. Accessed March 31, 2020 .
  6. ^ Website Fricke Landmaschinen GmbH. In: Fricke agricultural machinery. Retrieved November 8, 2016 .
  7. ^ Website Fricke Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH. In: Fricke Commercial Vehicles. Retrieved November 8, 2016 .
  8. GRANIT webshop. In: www.granit-parts.com. Retrieved November 8, 2016 .
  9. Website SAPHIR Maschinenbau GmbH. In: www.saphir-maschinenbau.de. Retrieved November 8, 2016 .
  10. ^ Website Gartenland GmbH. In: www.gartenland.de. Retrieved November 8, 2016 .
  11. ^ Website Hofmeister & Meincke GmbH. In: www.hofmei.de. Retrieved November 8, 2016 .

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