Markant (trading company)

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MARKANT Handels- und Industriewaren-Vermittlungs AG

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legal form Corporation
founding 1987
Seat Pfäffikon , Canton of Schwyz , SwitzerlandSwitzerlandSwitzerland 
management Alois Kruth, Markus Tkotz, Christian Francken
Branch Food and non-food trade
Website www.markant.com

The Markant trade and industrial goods mediation AG (proper spelling: MARKANT) is the largest trading and service cooperation in the food trade in Europe. The trading partners (also called members) are primarily private companies. The declared task of trade cooperation is to secure independence and thus also the future of private and free trade. As an important corrective to the market, Markant brings together the potential of many independent wholesalers and retailers in Europe in order to open up the advantages of cooperation to all members, especially through numerous services.

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The head office is in Pfäffikon in the municipality of Freienbach , Switzerland . The Markant AG where he took on 1 January 1988 on business operations. It emerged from the retail chain A&O, which was founded in 1953, a voluntary cooperation of twenty food wholesalers. By opening up new forms of business such as B. drugstores or large -area stores such as hypermarkets emerged from it in 1972 the Selex Handels GmbH based in Offenburg . At the same time, Tania (Hamburg) developed with the same goals in the non-food area. In 1983 Selex and Tania merged to form S + T Bundeszentrale Selex + Tania Handels-AG , based in Offenburg in Baden. Due to the objection of the German Federal Cartel Office against this merger, those responsible decided to found Markant AG in Pfäffikon.

Since 1996 the company has been transformed into a foundation under Swiss law. Around the same time the small A&O stores were renamed your chain . Which is led Markant trade and industrial goods mediation AG by the Board. The managing directors are Franz-Friedrich Müller and Markus Tkotz. Chairman of the Board of Directors is Claus-Jürgen Kaiser, Vice-Presidents are Hellwardt de Boer and Hermann Langness.

On behalf of Markant AG , Markant Services International GmbH , based in Offenburg, Germany, acts as a European competence center for a wide range of services for all current and future Markant country organizations.

Other subsidiaries and affiliates of Markant AG are:

  • The Handelsmarken GmbH , based in Offenburg, acts as a holding company for all proprietary business of Markant AG .
    • Central trading company - ZHG mbH based in Offenburg, especially for the purchase and sale of FMCG in the entry-level price range
    • Iberiana Frucht SA based in Massamagrell (Valencia) and Offenburg for the procurement of fruit and vegetables from Spain
  • Large consumer service company Intergast in Offenburg
  • Marketing and Convenience-Shop System GmbH (MCS), based in Offenburg, service company for gas stations , kiosks , bakeries and other small-area impulse sales outlets

The Zentrale Handelsgesellschaft - ZHG and Iberiana Frucht are wholly owned subsidiaries of Handelsmarken GmbH .

In addition, Markant is represented with its own companies in various European countries. These are also direct subsidiaries of Markant Handels- und Industriewaren-Vermittlungs-AG :

  • Markant Germany GmbH in Offenburg
  • Markant Austria GmbH in Vienna
  • Markant Syntrade Schweiz AG in Pfäffikon
  • Markant Česko in Prague in the Czech Republic, for the procurement area
  • Markant Slovensko in Bratislava , Slovakia, for the procurement area
  • Markant Polska in Warsaw , Poland
  • European Marketing Distribution AG (EMD) with responsibility for European distribution
  • Markant Finanz AG in Basel as a financial service provider
  • MVD Markant Versicherungsmakler GmbH in Munich as an insurance service provider

Market importance

A distinctive market in Dörpen (2018)

Overall, Markant and its specialized subsidiaries organize the purchase of goods for around 100 companies and thus serve more than 20,000 sales outlets, a sales area of ​​7 million square meters and, measured in terms of sales, a market share of around 20 percent in the German and 13 percent in the Austrian food trade. In 2016, the trading companies affiliated with Markant reported a turnover of around 51 billion euros through Markant.

Companies that belong to the Markant cooperation are, for example, the drugstore chains Budnikowsky , dm , Müller and Rossmann , some wholesalers in the Service-Bund group, the hardware stores from BayWa , Globus and Hellweg and the hypermarkets, supermarkets and self-service department stores Bartels- Langness , Bünting AG , Kaufland , real and tegut .

In response to the increasing concentration in the food retail sector, Markant launched the local supply offensive in September 2005 .

At the end of January 2012 it became known that the drugstore chain Schlecker - despite the previously announced bankruptcy - and the Markant Group are continuing their purchasing cooperation. This ensured that the Schlecker stores would continue to operate until they closed in June 2012.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schlecker comes to an agreement . n-tv.de, accessed on January 29, 2012.