Köster (company)

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Köster Holding SE

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legal form AG
founding April 1, 1938
Seat Osnabrück , Lower Saxony
management Adolf Roesch, Chairman of the Management Board
Number of employees 2,000
sales 1.24 billion euros
Branch Construction
Website www.koester-bau.de
As of August 9, 2019

The Köster Group is a German group of companies from the construction industry with headquarters in Osnabrück . The associated companies Köster GmbH, Baresel Tunnelbau GmbH and Kösterplanung GmbH are wholly owned subsidiaries. They provide services in building construction and civil engineering as well as tunnel construction and planning for technical building equipment . With an annual turnover of 1.24 billion euros (2018), the Köster Group is one of the largest construction companies in Germany.

history

In 1938, the 31-year-old Heinrich Köster founded the "Heinrich Köster engineering office and civil engineering company" in Osnabrück. The main tasks were the creation of planning drafts for water management offices and district authorities as well as the construction of drainage systems in the Emsland . In 1949 the company was renamed "Bauunternehmen Heinrich Köster & Sohn GmbH".

1950s to 1980s

With the acquisition of the first excavator, the company made use of modern technology from the beginning of the 1950s and in 1954 moved into a new building yard with an attached workshop in the Osnabrück district of Eversburg . A few years later, the company received approval to build water pipes and started building roads with its own paver. After Heinrich Koester's death in 1965, his sons Dieter and Gerd Koester became owners of the company. The business was run by the former employee Helmut Hille. In 1975 Dieter Köster took over as Dipl.-Ing. and Dipl.-Wirtschafts-Ing. took over the management and began to develop the company into a full-service provider in the construction industry. With the takeover of the building construction company Becker Bau from Melle , the company entered building construction in 1984 . In 1987, in addition to the change of name to "Köster Bau GmbH & Co", the first branch was opened in Bielefeld .

1990s

In 1991 the company divided the wholly owned subsidiaries Becker Bau and Weinrich Bau, which had been taken over the year before with headquarters in Münster, into "Köster Bau AG & Co." a. With the acquisition of the companies Gebr. Claussen from Celle (civil engineering) in 1992 and Telge + Eppers from Braunschweig (structural engineering) in 1995, the market development was expanded to the regions of Hanover and Braunschweig. In 1998 the Köster master plan was introduced as a project management tool.

2000s

In 2000 the construction company Baresel from Stuttgart was taken over . Köster AG & Co. and Baresel GmbH operated independently until the end of 2018. In 2002 the company A. Bücker GmbH & Co. from Melle was taken over. The previous branches in Melle and Osnabrück were combined in the new administration in the Osnabrück district of Sutthausen . In the years that followed, numerous new locations were opened in northern, eastern and western Germany. The first competence center followed in 2006, concentrating on a specialized construction area. In 2009 the company changed its name to "Köster GmbH".

2010s

Since 2011, the Köster process system has been combining various project control instruments into a holistic project management tool. Additional locations in building construction and civil engineering as well as for the competence center logistics real estate and residential construction were opened. In 2017 the construction company Völkel + Heidingsfelder (V + H) from Nuremberg and the engineering office Winkels Behrens Pospich Ingenieure für Haustechnik GmbH from Münster were taken over. Since 2019, the Köster Group has been operating in building construction and civil engineering with Köster GmbH under the Köster brand. For the tunnel construction segment in the DA-CH region , the Baresel brand will remain in the form of Baresel Tunnelbau GmbH . In 2019, Nils Köster, the third generation of the Köster family, joined the company's management.

activity

The companies belonging to the Köster Group plan and build in the areas of structural engineering, civil engineering and tunnel construction. In addition to the project implementation, additional services are provided.

Köster GmbH

  • Building construction: Industrial and production halls, office / administration buildings, commercial and residential buildings, clinics / medical centers, FMZ / EKZ / sales areas, sports facilities / event halls, hotel buildings, car park properties, student dormitories
  • Civil engineering: landfill construction / remediation of contaminated sites, earthworks, infrastructure, outdoor facilities / logistics
  • Competence center: logistics real estate, social real estate, residential construction, pipeline construction, special civil engineering, environmental technology
  • Complementary services: architecture, structural optimization, planning, planning control

Baresel Tunnelbau GmbH

  • Tunnels, shafts and caverns
  • Conventional heading: loose rock heading, hard rock heading, special heading method
  • Mechanical tunneling: hard rock tunneling, loose rock tunneling

Köster Planning GmbH

Corporate structure

The Köster Group employs more than 2,000 people. The company's headquarters are in Osnabrück. Other locations are in Berlin, Bielefeld, Braunschweig, Bremen, Chemnitz, Dresden, Erfurt, Frankfurt, Gießen, Hamburg, Kiel, Leipzig, Mannheim, Mülheim / Ruhr, Munich, Münster, Nuremberg, Stuttgart and Ulm.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Köster Holding AG becomes a European stock corporation (Societas Europaea). Retrieved August 6, 2019 .
  2. ^ Köster Group - Köster - the company - Köster GmbH. Retrieved January 7, 2019 .
  3. ^ History - Köster - the company - Köster GmbH. Retrieved January 7, 2019 .
  4. ↑ NOZ Medien: Our Osnabrück - Then and Now . In: NOZ Medien (ed.): Our Osnabrück - Then and Now . tape 3 . NOZ Medien, Osnabrück November 2017.
  5. ^ Köster master plan - Köster process system - Köster GmbH. Retrieved January 7, 2019 .
  6. ^ History - Köster - the company - Köster GmbH. Retrieved January 7, 2019 .
  7. ^ Siegfrid Sachse: Köster won the race: Bücker construction company bought. February 28, 2001, Retrieved January 7, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Alexander Heintze: Nuremberg-based KIB Group separates from the construction company V + H. January 10, 2017, accessed January 3, 2019 .
  9. ↑ https://www.koester-bau.de/unternehmen/neuheiten/koester-gruppe-uebernnahm-planungsbuero-winkels-behrens-pospich-wbp-aus-Muenster.html. July 18, 2017. Retrieved July 18, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Patzer Verlag GmbH & Co KG, Berlin Germany: On course for expansion: Köster group is realigning itself. Retrieved January 3, 2019 .
  11. ^ Baresel GmbH. Retrieved January 3, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Köster Holding SE: Press release: Complete construction provider Köster operates as an SE. In: www.koester-bau.de. Köster Holding SE, August 6, 2019, accessed on August 9, 2019 .
  13. ^ The locations of the Köster Group - Köster GmbH. Retrieved January 3, 2019 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 14 '56.7 "  N , 8 ° 2' 8.3"  E