Lexzau, Scharbau
| Lexzau, Scharbau GmbH & Co. KG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1879 |
| Seat | Bremen , Germany |
| management | Jörg Conrad (owner) |
| Number of employees | 2,000 |
| sales | 720 million euros (2015) |
| Branch | logistics |
| Website | www.leschaco.com |
The Lexzau, Scharbau GmbH & Co. KG is a 1879 based in Hamburg logistics company , which is now headquartered in Bremen has. The international company appears publicly under the LESCHACO brand and is the second largest automotive handling company in Germany after the BLG Logistics Group .
Lexzau, Scharbau is the parent company of the Leschaco Group .
history
Wilhelm Lexzau and Julius Scharbau founded the Lexzau, Scharbau company in Hamburg in 1879 . In 1898 an office in Bremen was opened under the direction of Friedrich August Meyer, who became a partner in the company in 1919 . In 1935, F. A. Meyer made his two sons Julius and Hans partners.
Right from the start, the company was active in all areas of freight forwarding , with the focus in Bremen on the bulk goods sector . Business relationships with the chemical industry were established in Hamburg as early as the turn of the 20th century .
After the Second World War , the first office was opened in Bremen at the Bremer Domshof in 1946 . After several moves within Bremen, in 1969 the company moved to a new administration building in Kap-Horn-Straße, on a headland between the Weser and Port Canal A of Bremen's industrial ports .
The office building, created according to the plans of the Bremen architect Gerhard Müller-Menckens , has special features: The entire building is reminiscent of a ship's bridge, as the office floors tower up like ship superstructures. The hull of the ship is formed by the roof of the submarine bunker Hornisse , which was built during the Nazi era and no longer completed . The L-shape of the company headquarters forms the basis of the Leschaco logo in a stylized form.
Lexzau, Scharbau acted in the field of transport with a great willingness to innovate . From the beginning of the 1960s, the company invested in the establishment and ongoing development of its own data processing system , which has now been further developed into a comprehensive data and information system and a cloud-based IT infrastructure. In addition, the company developed a dangerous goods database in which 20,000 dangerous goods are listed. Lexzau, Scharbau also took over the freight forwarding company Hagens, Anthony & Co. in 1971, with whom it was active in the air freight sector. This company has been operating under the name Leschaco Aircargo GmbH since the middle of 1994. From the late 1970s until today, the company grew internationally due to its international expansion .
The entrepreneur Herbert Conrad became a partner in Bremen in 1959 and sole owner in 1970. Since 1992 his son Jörg Conrad has been the sole shareholder of the Anker-Leschaco group of companies .
The enterprise
The logistics company Lexzau, Scharbau is managed in the legal form of a GmbH & Co. KG and is managed by the entrepreneur Jörg Conrad as owner and sole shareholder.
Lexzau, Scharbau GmbH & Co. KG, the parent company of the now widespread Leschaco group of companies, has its headquarters in Bremen. In addition to a branch in Hamburg, other German companies include Leschaco Aircargo GmbH in Frankfurt am Main , Leschaco Solutions GmbH in Minden and Leschaco Solutions Bremen GmbH in Bremen , its own insurance company Anker Assekuranz GmbH, AC Container Line GmbH and Anlog Logistics GmbH , all three based in Bremen and the Anker Schiffahrts-Gesellschaft mbH, a seaport handling and terminal company in the Emden outer harbor.
The group of companies maintains an international network in over 20 countries and is represented in Germany, Belgium , Brazil , China , Chile , France , Hong Kong , India , Indonesia , Israel , Japan , Spain , South Korea , Malaysia , Mexico , the Netherlands , Singapore , South Africa , Switzerland , Thailand , USA and Vietnam .
The group of companies employs a total of over 2000 people, 700 of them in Germany and, with a sea freight volume of 500,000 TEU, is one of the ten largest providers in Germany.
Business areas
The Leschaco Group operates worldwide as a service company in the logistics sector and provides services in the field of sea freight ( FCL , LCL , projects, special equipment), dangerous goods transport , air freight , tank containers, contract logistics, transport solutions by rail to Asia / China and multimodal transport inland.
The Leschaco Group's clients include companies from the plant and mechanical engineering, automotive , chemical and chemical-related industries , consumer goods and pharmaceuticals sectors .
While Herbert Conrad shipped the first VW Beetles to the USA from the Bremen industrial port in the 1960s , the vehicles are now handled by Anker Schifffahrt via Emden . In 2014 the company shipped 1.31 million vehicles there together with partner companies. The port of Emden is the third largest car loading port in Europe after those in Bremerhaven and Zeebrugge .
Web links
- Internet presence - Lexzau, Scharbau GmbH & Co. KG (German, English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Bremen-based logistics company specializes in liquids. In: Weser courier . January 16, 2017, accessed January 15, 2018 .
- ↑ a b cf. Lexzau Scharbau expands despite the crisis , article by Annemarie Struß-von-Poellnitz in the Bremer Weser-Kurier , business section, from August 27, 2009, p. 20.
- ↑ a b DVZ Deutsche Verkehrs-Zeitung No. 85 “We are happy to be a freight forwarder”, p. 9, from October 24, 2016
- ↑ The seaport and its services. Retrieved January 15, 2018 .