Happich Group
| Happich Group (GHE) A Pelzer Family Company
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | June 2010 |
| Seat | Wuppertal |
| management | Marc Pelzer, Alberto Reinhart |
| Number of employees | 86 (2016) |
| sales | € 34 million (2016) |
| Branch | Automotive and shipbuilding supply industry, technical noise protection and
thermal insulation, profiles, locking systems and fittings |
| Website | www.happich.de |
The Happich Group , internationally also Happich Group , (before 2010 GHE Group ) is a globally active, medium-sized German group of companies in the automotive supplier industry with Happich GmbH in Wuppertal as the main company. It specializes in the manufacture of components, profiles, locking systems, technical soundproofing, thermal insulation and entire systems, especially for the interiors of vehicles of various types and shipbuilding.
The main company Happich GmbH emerged from Happich Fahrzeug- und Industrieteile GmbH, which went bankrupt in 2009, and some of its subsidiaries, which were taken over by a German subsidiary of the Swiss family company Pelzer Swiss Holding AG . This is why Happich GmbH is nicknamed A Pelzer Family Company . GHE is now a brand of the Happich Group
Product range and customers
The production program focuses on luggage racks (around 35%), profiles made of rubber, plastic and metal (around 19%), locks and fittings (15%) and cladding for roofs and air ducts (around 10% together). The GHE Group's product portfolio comprises a total of around 3,000 components and over 100 ready-to-install, pre-assembled interior systems.
The individual components are delivered to over 4000 customers worldwide, the ready-to-install systems to over 100 customers worldwide. The largest share (around 45%) is used to equip buses, while drivers' cabs of trucks, forklifts, tractors and construction vehicles (total share of 21%), railway , tram and subway cars, caravans and mobile , boats and other recreational vehicles as well as for general industry and trade. The main customers are the bus and truck manufacturers Daimler , EvoBus , MAN , Neoplan , Irisbus and Volvo .
Structure and key figures
The Happich Group consists of the main company Happich GmbH in Wuppertal ( North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany) and its Europe-wide subsidiaries. There are sales branches in Germany, Great Britain, Spain, the Czech Republic, Turkey, Poland and China.
In the 2016 fiscal year, Happich GmbH achieved sales of around 34 million. Euro. In 2016, the group employed 86 people, 13 of them in production and 73 in administration.
history
The history of the Happich group began in 1924 with the founding of the GHE OHG by the brothers Ludwig and Otto Happich in Wuppertal- Elberfeld . The company abbreviation GHE was originally an acronym from G ebrüder H appich E lberfeld . Otto Happich (born June 3, 1900 in Rotenburg an der Fulda ; † March 4, 1975) was the director of the company, which was later taken over by his sons Otto and Hartmut. Otto Happich jun. later became a supervisory board member of Rücker AG until November 2012 , Hartmut Happich became a freelance management consultant and business angel .
In 1978 the company, now trading as Gebr. Happich GmbH , took over the entire building complex of the former consumer cooperative Vorwärts-Befreiung in the Clausen residential area in Wuppertal . At the beginning of the 1980s, sales reached around 500 million German marks , making Happich one of the largest European all-round vehicle interior designers. Around 1990 the number of employees was around 5,000.
From 1936 to 1978 Happich published over 200 issues of technical customer information under the title “The Small Sample Case”. In the 1970s and 1980s, Happich had an operating group of the Wuppertal DKP , which even published its own company newspaper called "Rotes Happich-Prisma" at irregular intervals. There was also a company men's choir and a company sports community as well as a tennis club founded by the company ( TC Happich , merged in 2004 with the Elberfeld tennis club ).
In 1998, when sales had risen to over DM 1.3 billion, Happich was taken over by Johnson Controls . The following year, the commercial vehicle and industrial components division was spun off through a management buyout , with the majority share (85%) being taken over by the German investment company Halder . At the end of 2002, Happich was acquired by merging with the Italian Ellamp Interiors SpA from the Milan-based holding company Group Happich Ellamp (Italian: Gruppo Happich-Ellamp ), which was newly founded in the same year, and 30% of the Halder , the Italian Investment group Aksìa held 60% and the joint venture Mediolanum State Street (now Fondamenta SGR ) held 10%. In 2008 Halder sold his stake in a fund of the Belgian investment company Becap .
On July 3, 2009, the main company of the GHE Group, Happich Fahrzeug- und Industrieteile GmbH in Wuppertal and three other subsidiaries, including the Czech production company, applied for insolvency proceedings to be opened due to a sharp drop in orders in the wake of the crisis in the automotive industry .
A new start was made on May 1, 2010 with an investment of € 8 million through the takeover of a family company from the industry, Pelzer Swiss Holding AG , via the German subsidiary Pelzer Acoustic Products GmbH . The Pelzer Acoustic Products GmbH took over the main company, and the "Happich Profile GmbH" in Wuppertal and some European subsidiaries and then changed its name on 18 June for "Happich GmbH" to.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Happich GmbH - Wuppertal - annual financial statements as of December 31, 2016. (PDF) ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Company register - Bundesanzeigerverlag, June 19, 2017; accessed on November 1, 2017
- ↑ [New supervisory board at Rücker AG - complete new composition after Aton takeover ...], EDAG Engineering GmbH, November 21, 2012, presseportal.de; accessed on November 1, 2017
- ↑ GHE (Gruppo Happich-Ellamp) SpA (portfolio) on halder.eu; accessed in January 2013
- ↑ Happig: Filed for bankruptcy . automobil-industrie.vogel.de, July 6, 2009
- ↑ Pelzer Acoustic Products: Happich Group bought on automobil-industrie.vogel.de, article from June 15, 2010
- ↑ Entry "Happich GmbH" in the company register from June 24, 2010 ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Bundesanzeiger Publishing House; accessed on November 1, 2017
