MPC Münchmeyer Petersen & Co.
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1846 |
| Seat | Hamburg |
| management | Axel Schroeder, Axel Schroeder jr., John Benjamin Schroeder, Clemens Weber, Klaus Lesker |
| Number of employees | 329 (2009) |
| sales | EUR 145 million |
| Branch | Trading and investments |
| Website | www.mpc.de |
MPC Münchmeyer Petersen & Co. GmbH , based in Hamburg, is a family-run group of companies with the business areas of capital investments, shipbuilding and shipping, durable goods and machines as well as consumer goods. The shareholders are Axel Schroeder with his sons John Benjamin Schroeder and Axel Schroeder.
history
The company's history goes back to 1846, when the Münchmeyer, Reimers & Nölting trading house was founded. The successor company was merged with R. Petersen & Co. to MPC Münchmeyer Petersen & Co. in 1972 .
Business areas
Shipbuilding and shipping
In the shipbuilding and shipping sector, MPC Münchmeyer Petersen Marine offers the delivery and financing of material packages for international shipyards and shipbuilding projects as well as associated engineering services. The company cooperates with shipyards in leading shipbuilding nations, but also in numerous shipbuilding emerging countries. In 1999, MPC Münchmeyer Petersen Steamship was founded to monitor the shipping activities of the MPC Group. On April 1, 2014, MPC and Thien & Heyenga took over the Ahrenkiel shipping company based in Hamburg. The operations of the three companies will be merged under the new name Ahrenkiel Steamship .
Capital investments
In the area of capital investments, the listed issuing house MPC Capital, which is held 25.25%, develops and sells capital investments for wealthy private customers and institutional investors and is a major player in the area of closed funds . If the focus was initially on the initiation of ship investments and real estate funds, the management decided after a few years to significantly expand the product range.
Raw materials and machines
The trading business in the raw materials and machinery sector is handled by Coutinho Caro + Co International Trading GmbH (CCC International) and an extensive network of affiliated companies. In addition to the international trade in non-ferrous metal semi-finished products, CCC International supplies and finances machines and turnkey industrial plants as well as pipes and pipe products through its holding company CCC Machinery GmbH. On January 1, 2008, the global steel trading activities of CCC International and Ferrostaal AG, Essen, were merged under the name Coutinho & Ferrostaal GmbH. This has created a leading international steel trading company.
Consumer products
In the area of consumer products, Siemssen & Co. GmbH, as an intermediate holding company, bundles the service and trading activities of the MPC Group in the textiles product area.
Ferrostaal
In November 2011, MPC Industries, a sister company held by the owners of MPC together with a group of investors around Commodore Contracting Co. from Abu Dhabi (which holds a minority share), acquired the Ferrostaal Group from MAN for a total of EUR 160 million.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Consolidated Financial Statements 2009 (from the Federal Gazette)
- ↑ rtr: Thanks to shipping merger, HSH Nordbank is reducing shipping loans in Handelsblatt , April 1, 2014
- ↑ MPC takes over Ferrostaal - and possibly itself. Article in Capital. (No longer available online.) November 29, 2011, archived from the original on April 13, 2012 ; Retrieved May 8, 2012 . 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.
