Fritz Meyer Holding
| Fritz Meyer Holding AG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1860 |
| Seat | Basel , Switzerland |
| management | Thomas Hill ( CEO ) Werner Althoff ( Chairman of the Board of Directors ) |
| Number of employees | 551 (2012) |
| sales | 1100 million CHF (2012) |
| Branch | Automobile trade, mineral oil trade |
| Website | www.fmholding.ch |
The Fritz Meyer Holding AG , based in Basel is in the areas of automotive trade and oil trading active Swiss group of companies.
Field of activity
The group of companies is active in the automotive, mineral oil trading and petrol station sectors.
The auto division , which includes ASAG Auto-Service AG, ASAG Auto AG and the German subsidiary ASAG GmbH, has a total of thirteen branches. In addition to selling new and used cars, they also act as a car repair shop and carry out service and repair work , emissions tests , body repairs, tire service , air conditioning service and chip tuning .
In January 2015, the Opel agency for the entire north-west of Switzerland was taken over, and a new stock corporation was founded: ASAG Auto AG.
The mineral oil trading and filling stations division comprises the subsidiaries Fritz Meyer AG , AVIA Distribution SA , E. Schenk AG , Petrola AG and a 39.2 percent stake in AVIA AG . The group of companies operates a total of 95 filling stations and, in addition to fuel, also sells heating oils and lubricants .
history
The company was founded in 1860 by Rudolf Friedrich Meyer, who opened a wagon factory in Basel . A few years later, a wagon keeping with 25 horses was attached to the wagon .
In 1916, the company switched to motorized means of transport and acquired the first truck . In 1924 the company was converted into a stock corporation and thus Fritz Meyer AG . In 1925 the company entered the trading business with liquid fuels, which was followed two years later by entering the business with products from the petrochemical industry (lubricants, oils, fats). Auto Service Aeschenplatz AG was founded in 1929, today's ASAG Auto-Service AG .
In 1997 Fritz Meyer took over the petrol station operator AVIA Distribution SA in Lausanne and Geneva. The company, which has meanwhile grown into a group, gave itself a holding structure in 1998. In the same year, the former ARAL filling stations in French-speaking Switzerland were added to the AVIA network.
The auto trade and garages area was expanded through various takeovers in the late 1990s and early 2000s and finally merged in 2004 to form ASAG Auto-Service AG. In the mid-2000s, the heating oil sector was also expanded through various acquisitions.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Facts and Figures. Fritz Meyer Holding, accessed on August 2, 2013 .