Kemmler building materials

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Kemmler SE

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legal form Societas Europaea
founding 1885
Seat Tubingen , Baden-Wuerttemberg
management Marc Kemmler
Number of employees 1,600
sales EUR 477.72 million
Branch Building materials trade
Website www.kemmler.de
As of December 31, 2018

Kemmler Baustoffe is a building materials trading company . Like the three legally independent sister companies Beton Kemmler, Kemmlit and Kemmler Industriebau, it emerged from the company "Michael Pflumm Mahlmühle und Zementfabrik" founded in Dusslingen in 1885 and the company "Pflumm & Kemmler" founded in Tübingen in 1908 . The building materials trading company is primarily active in Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria and operates at 24 locations.

history

Foundation phase

In 1885 the farmer Michael Pflumm (1850–1919) bought the powder mill near Dusslingen and used the facilities taken over from the previous owner as a grinding mill for grain and for the production of Roman cement and slate stones. The following year he founded the company “M. Pflumm, Dusslingen ”. In the course of the spread of Portland cement , Pflumm took up the production of cement products, mainly from pipes, and expanded the powder mill into a cement product factory .

After marrying Pflumm's daughter Margarethe in 1901, the businessman Johannes Kemmler (1871–1955) joined his father-in-law's company. Kemmler modernized the organization. B. the double-entry bookkeeping and provided for a work order prescribed by the Württemberg trade regulations for the factory. Kemmler finally convinced his father-in-law Michael Pflumm to look for a new, more convenient location for the company. The choice finally fell on Tübingen.

Development phase

In February 1906 Pflumm bought an industrial site with a siding in Reutlinger Strasse in Tübingen and built a cement goods factory there. In 1908 Michael Pflumm and Johannes Kemmler founded a cement goods factory and building materials business under the joint company "Pflumm & Kemmler, Tübingen". In 1910 Michael Pflumm left the company, which from then on only worked in Tübingen after leaving the Dußlinger location. With a cautious corporate policy, Kemmler's company survived the First World War and the subsequent political and economic crisis.

After the hyperinflation ended , the company began to expand. In 1925, Kemmler bought additional premises and built new production facilities. The acquisition of the first truck made transport much easier, for which the company had until then mainly relied on horse-drawn vehicles. The modernization of the transport system created the prerequisite for expanding the sales market for cement goods manufacture as well as the building materials trade .

The cautious corporate management advocated by Johannes Kemmler in times of crisis also proved its worth in the context of the global economic crisis since 1929. The building activity in Tübingen, which increased after the Nazi takeover, allowed the company's sales to grow again from the mid-1930s. In 1933, the company Pflumm & Kemmler signed a contract with Eternit AG , which assured them the general agency for Eternit products for the contract area of Württemberg including Hohenzollern and Sigmaringen (with the exception of the Oberamt Ulm). With the opening of a sales office in Stuttgart in 1936, the company expanded spatially.

Second World War and Reconstruction

Before the start of the Second World War , Johannes Kemmler handed over management of the company to his son Hans Kemmler (1909–1973), who had worked for the company since 1934 after completing his degree in economics. Hans Kemmler was not an active member of the NSDAP , but participated with his company in the National Socialist prisoner of war and forced labor system . In the second half of the war, under the sign of the Allied air war , the company specialized primarily in precast concrete parts for air protection. In April 1945 the company premises were almost completely destroyed in an air raid.

In the context of a quota market under French occupation, Hans Kemmler succeeded in re-establishing his company as a producer of cement products and as a building materials wholesaler. With the currency reform in 1948 , the company Pflumm & Kemmler started a new production under the name Kemmlit with the manufacture of toilet partitions made of Eternit. A first branch was opened in Stuttgart in 1949, followed by a second branch in Münsingen in 1956 .

Growth and specialization

After an accident with his father Hans Kemmler in 1956, Peter Kemmler (* 1937) joined the family business. The coming decades were characterized by self-financed growth and specialization. Kemmler only retained activities in which increased market shares were to be expected and with which the company could at least become equal to the respective market leader. The production activities were relocated to their own locations in 1962 (concrete plant to Hirschau) and 1972 (Kemmlit to Dußlingen) in order to give them greater opportunities to develop. Starting in 1967, the sole proprietorship Pflumm & Kemmler developed into four legally independent sister companies Kemmler Baustoffe GmbH, Kemmlit Bauelemente GmbH, Beton Kemmler GmbH (since 1987) and Kemmler Industriebau GmbH (since 2006).

In two expansion phases (1962–1981 and since 2000) Kemmler Baustoffe built up a network of building material branches in Baden-Württemberg and finally also in Bavaria, partly by taking over existing building material dealers, partly by establishing new ones: 1962 Böblingen , 1964 Oberndorf am Neckar , 1966 Donaueschingen , 1968 Nürtingen , 1971 Hechingen , 1972 Balingen , 1973 Metzingen and Fellbach - Oeffingen , 1977 Horb and Altensteig , 1981 Herrenberg , 2000/01 Ulm and Neu-Ulm , 2001 and 2004 Pforzheim , 2003 Schorndorf , 2005 Aalen , 2006 Stammheim , 2008 Diedorf near Augsburg , 2014 Weinsberg and 2018 Unterhaching near Munich.

The second main strategic thrust, besides expansion, was specialization, since the early 1960s mainly in the tile product . In the 1970s, Kemmler built building materials in Tübingen and then in other branches as well, large-scale, elaborately designed tile exhibitions for the exquisite area. The increased private demand and the increasing competition from the newly emerging DIY stores led in the 1980s to a supplementary set-up of simply structured tile stores for the inexpensive sector. This specialization in the field of tiles was transferred to other product areas. In 1987, Kemmler Baustoffe was organizationally divided into divisions / areas and has been further adapted since then: roof construction, expansion, dry construction, building construction, civil engineering and horticulture as well as tile exhibitions and tile markets. The basic idea behind this division was to be able to better cater to the specific needs of the different customer groups and trades. Every salesperson should specialize fully in one customer group and the corresponding range of products.

This “multi-specialist” concept has been transferred to all existing and newly added branches since the late 1980s and has been supplemented by a warehouse and logistics concept. Today, with 25 branches, Kemmler Baustoffe is the leading specialist building material and tile retailer in southern Germany. Dr. Marc Kemmler (* 1966) joined the family company in 1993, which is now in the fifth generation of the family. In 2012, Kemmler Baustoffe was awarded the TOP JOB quality seal for the first time, and further awards followed in 2013 and 2014.

literature

  • Fischer, Wolfgang: The building materials company Kemmler. The story of a Swabian family company spanning five generations. Frankfurt am Main 2010.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Consolidated Financial Statements as of December 31, 2018 in the electronic Federal Gazette
  2. ↑ Johannes Kemmler wrote a manuscript on the founding history of the company up to 1940. This is printed in the appendix by Fischer, Wolfgang: Das Baustoffunternehmen Kemmler. The story of a Swabian family company spanning five generations. Frankfurt am Main 2010, pp. 288-303.
  3. ^ Cf. Fischer, Wolfgang: The building materials company Kemmler. The story of a Swabian family company spanning five generations. Frankfurt am Main 2010, pp. 35–60.
  4. ^ Cf. Fischer, Wolfgang: The building materials company Kemmler. The story of a Swabian family company spanning five generations. Frankfurt am Main 2010, pp. 61-103.
  5. ^ Cf. Fischer, Wolfgang: The building materials company Kemmler. The story of a Swabian family company spanning five generations. Frankfurt am Main 2010, pp. 104-138
  6. ↑ On the development of Kemmler building materials and the three sister companies, cf. Fischer, Wolfgang: The building materials company Kemmler. The story of a Swabian family company spanning five generations. Frankfurt am Main 2010, pp. 139–204
  7. ↑ The family business Kemmler, which has existed for more than 125 years, is listed in relevant publications, e. B. in Langenscheidt, Florian / May, Peter (eds.): Lexicon of German family businesses. Cologne 2009 or in Langenscheidt, Florian / May, Peter (ed.): From the best family. 2., rework. Cologne 2011 edition.
  8. ↑ http://www.topjob.de/top-arbeitgeber/2012-und-frueher/2012/kemmler-baustoffe-gmbh.html , for the years 2013 and 2014 http://www.topjob.de/top-arbeitgeber /2013-und-frueher/2013/kemmler-baustoffe-gmbh.html as well as archived copy ( memento of the original from September 15, 2014 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. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.top-arbeitgeber.de