Inchcape
| Inchcape plc.
|
|
|---|---|
 |
|
| legal form | plc |
| ISIN | GB00B61TVQ02 |
| founding | 1847 |
| Seat | London , UK |
| management | Stefan Bomhard, CEO |
| Number of employees | 18,734 |
| sales | 9.277 billion GBP approx. 10.369 billion EUR |
| Branch | Automobile trade |
| Website | www.inchcape.com |
| As of December 31, 2018 | |
Inchcape is a UK company headquartered in London . The company operates as a dealer and importer in the automotive industry.
history
In 1847, William MacKinnon and Robert MacKenzie, together with MacAllister Hall, founded the MacKinnon MacKenzie Company ( MMC ) with headquarters in Calcutta . In 1862 the company was listed on the London Stock Exchange under the name British India Steam Navigation Company . In the following decades, various companies were acquired and from a series of bought-in testing and certification company , the Inchcape Testing Services formed.
In the 1990s, the business increasingly focused on the import and trade of motor vehicles . The Japanese company Toyota became an important trading partner . The Inchcape Testing Services division was acquired by Charterhouse Development Capital in 1996 and renamed Intertek Testing Services .
literature
- Stephanie Jones: Two Centuries of Overseas Trading: The Origins and Growth of the Inchcape Group , Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 1986, ISBN 0-333-37172-0
Individual evidence
- ^ Executive Committee
- ↑ a b Inchcape 2018 Annual Report , accessed August 22, 2019
- ^ ISS Shipping: History
- ↑ intertek.com: History, accessed October 18, 2011