MKB Mannheim municipal holdings
| MKB Mannheim municipal holdings | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1974 |
| Seat | Mannheim , Germany |
| management | , Carsten Südmersen, Michael Winnes, Marcus |
| Number of employees | 579 |
| sales | EUR 38.4 million |
| Website | https://www.mannheim.de/de/stadt-gestalten/staedtische-verbindungen/mkb-gmbh |
The MKB Mannheim municipal Beteiligungen GmbH (until 9 January 2018 MVV GmbH ; to 1998 Mannheim utilities and transport mbH) is the municipal holding company for the shares of the city of Mannheim on MVV Energie AG (50.1%) and MVV Verkehr GmbH (100%). The city of Mannheim is 100% owner of MKB GmbH.
history
In 1873 the city of Mannheim took over the gasworks in the Luzenberg district . The central drinking water supply began in 1888 with the opening of the first waterworks by the city in Käfertal . In 1899 the first power station followed in the industrial port . In 1900 the city took over the previously privately operated tram. The large Mannheim power station was built in 1923, and in 1959 the city center was developed from here with district heating . In 1965 the waste incineration plant on Friesenheimer Insel went into operation.
In 1974, the Stadtwerke, which had previously been run as an in-house company, were spun off into a GmbH with several subsidiaries, including those for supply and transport. In the 1990s, against the background of the emerging market liberalization, the change began, away from a company geared towards the city of Mannheim or the Rhine-Neckar triangle region to a company open to all sides. Consulting contracts were signed in Hong Kong, Sarajevo, Budapest and Poland.
In 1998 the company was reorganized and in 1999 MVV Energie AG went public.
On January 10, 2018, MVV GmbH was renamed MKB Mannheimer Kommunalbeteiligungen GmbH .
power supply
MVV Energie is responsible for the energy supply .
MVV Energie was the first municipal utility company to be listed on the stock exchange in 1999 and was thereby partially privatized. The city of Mannheim continues to hold 50.1% of MVV Energie through MVV GmbH. Another 16.3% belong to Kölner RheinEnergie , 15% to EnBW and 18.5% are in free float .
Local transport
The subsidiary MVV Verkehr was responsible for local public transport with tram and bus routes in Mannheim .
In 2000, the city of Mannheim's 94.6% stake in the Oberrheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft AG (OEG), which operated the Upper Rhine Railway and bus routes in the southeast of Mannheim, in Weinheim and in the region, was transferred to MVV GmbH. The company was renamed MVV OEG AG and merged with MVV Verkehr AG on March 16, 2010.
In 2004, MVV Verkehr AG and MVV OEG AG founded the joint subsidiary Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr GmbH (RNV) with HSB, RHB, VBL and the central workshop in Mannheim .