Honold Logistics Group
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1879 |
| Seat | New Ulm |
| management | Hans-Heiner Honold, Heiner Matthias Honold, Johannes Schlenker |
| Number of employees | 1,400 (2017) |
| sales | 238 million euros (2017) |
| Branch | Contract logistics , express delivery , real estate development |
| Website | www.honold.net |
The Honold Logistics is a logistics service provider with headquarters in Neu-Ulm , Bavaria. The business purpose is the development of logistics real estate, branch logistics and transport services. The company has 22 locations and 1,400 employees. The company premises have an area of over 750,000 m².
Company data
The group was a founding partner of the German parcel service , Night Star Express and SystemAlliance and is one of the largest German private logistics companies and real estate developers in Germany. The company is active in Germany, Romania and Hungary with 22 locations. Honold is active with a focus on tires, aircraft, pharmaceuticals and automotive.
history
In 1879 Heinrich Honold founded the company as the Royal Bavarian Rolling Company in Ulm. During the Second World War , Honold was responsible for sending the Kinderland and supplying the population with food in the Neu-Ulm / Ulm region by transporting goods from the train station. After the war, the Honold Spedition helped supply the city of Neu-Ulm with timber. For this purpose trucks of the American occupation troops were obtained.
In the 1960s, the car forwarding company was set up with weekly lines to German destinations. In 1976, Honold founded the German Parcel Service together with other forwarding companies . Other collaborations were also established in the textile sector with Deutsche Textil Logistik (DTL) and in the food sector with the Pinguin cooperation.
In the 1990s, the German Parcel Service (DPD; today Dynamic Parcel Distribution ) was expanded in the Czech Republic as one of the first parcel services in Europe ( Ústí , Prague , Brno , Olmouc, Ostrava , Hradec ) and in Switzerland ( Bellinzona , Bad Ragaz , Schaffhausen , Zurich ) and in the new federal states ( Cottbus and Dresden ). The Night Star Express cooperation was initiated by Hans Heiner Honold. From 2000, internationalization became a focus with locations in Romania, China, Slovakia, Denmark, Hungary and Russia.
In the years 2010 to 2018, a. Locations in Hünfeld, Neu-Ulm, Bellheim, Hanover, Aachen, Timisoara, Memmingen, Korbach, Flensburg, Dettingen, Herbrechtingen, Mosonmagyaróvár and Augsburg . Some of these were rented or developed in-house. The largest locations, each with over 40,000 m² of logistics space, are Aachen, Augsburg, Bellheim, Timisoara and Neu-Ulm. At the Dettingen am Albuch location, Honold is also developing a logistics park with over 40,000 m² which should be ready by the end of 2019. In 2018, Honold took over the Night Star Express partner Eiltrans with Hellmann .
Cooperations
- CargoLine
- Night Star Express
literature
- Honold (senior), Heinrich Johann and Honold, (jun.), Heinrich , in: Frank Raberg : Biographical Lexicon for Ulm and Neu-Ulm 1802–2009 . Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft im Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7995-8040-3 , p. 180 f .