Merbag Holding
Merbag Holding AG
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legal form | Corporation |
founding | 1955 |
Seat | Cham , Switzerland |
management | Karin Stüber President of the Board of Directors |
Number of employees | > 2000 (2019) |
sales | 1.3 billion CHF (2018) |
Branch | Automobile trade |
Website | www.merbag.ch |
The Merbag Holding Switzerland AG headquartered in Cham is in automotive retail operating Swiss group of companies. The corporate organization comprises several independent companies: Mercedes-Benz Automobil AG, Euro Truck AG and MERBAG Immobilien AG. The family company, which is run by the third generation, employs around 1200 people and generated sales of 1.3 billion Swiss francs in 2018.
Field of activity
Merbag Holding Schweiz AG essentially comprises the two business units Mercedes-Benz Automobil AG and Euro Truck AG in the auto trade .
Mercedes-Benz Automobil AG , which has been owned by the Stüber family since 1948 and is based in Schlieren, forms the heart of the corporate group. Mercedes-Benz Automobil AG is not only the most important Mercedes-Benz dealer in Switzerland, the company is also one of the three largest employers in the Swiss automotive industry with 27 Mercedes-Benz and smart locations. Merbag is a sales and aftersales partner in the passenger car and commercial vehicle sectors of the Mercedes-Benz, smart and FUSO brands.
Euro Truck AG, based in Aarau, sells and services commercial vehicles of the Fiat Professional brand.
MERBAG Immobilien AG is active in real estate portfolio management, real estate management, construction management and project management, as well as corporate real estate management.
history
Merbag Holding was founded in 1955 by Herbert C. Stüber in Zurich . The roots of their activities, however, go back to 1911, when Benz and Daimler operated separately in Zurich, each with its own branch. After the two automobile companies merged in 1926, the two sales branches in Switzerland became Mercedes-Benz Automobil AG . In 1948, when it was taken over by Herbert C. Stüber, it became the property of a Swiss family; the previous company name was retained. The company sold, maintained and repaired passenger cars and commercial vehicles of the Mercedes-Benz brand in Zurich and Bern. Until 1972, Mercedes-Benz Automobil AG was also the only Mercedes-Benz importer for the Swiss market.
As an umbrella company for its activities, Stüber founded Merbag Holding in 1955. This has since held the shares of Mercedes-Benz Automobil AG. For reasons of space, the headquarters were relocated from Zurich to Schlieren in 1967 . While the main operating subsidiaries of Merbag Holding are still based in Schlieren today, the headquarters were later relocated to Zug .
In the 1970s, the company opened branches across Switzerland and developed into a nationwide group. Merfag AG was founded in 1973 to import Mercedes-Benz commercial vehicles . In 1980 there was a clear separation between import business and sales business. The new Mercedes-Benz (Switzerland) AG firmierende Merfag AG took over the former commercial vehicle import, the import of passenger cars, while Mercedes-Benz Automobil AG from then on was run as a pure retail organization.
In 2017 the company expanded abroad. Merbag acquired six Daimler operations in the Italian city of Milan and the entire Mercedes-Benz network with a total of five locations in Luxembourg . The group of companies, including its headquarters in Schlieren ( Zurich ), currently employs around 2000 people at a total of 38 locations (in Switzerland and abroad).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in the “Merbag Holding AG” commercial register of the canton of Zug ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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.
- ↑ Merbag Holding: History ( Memento of the original from March 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.