Mr. Wash
| Mr. Wash Autoservice AG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | DE0007759102 |
| founding | 1964 |
| Seat | Essen , Germany |
| Number of employees | 824 (2012) |
| sales | EUR 268.9 million (2012) |
| Branch | Car washes , gas stations |
| Website | www.mr-wash.de |
Mr. Wash (Mr. Wash Autoservice AG) is a German operator of car washes and petrol stations . The company headquarters are in Essen .
Company history
Joseph Enning opened the first Mr. Wash car wash in 1964 in Düsseldorf. Automatic Auto-Wasch-Geräte GmbH was founded in 1965 and converted into today's Mr. Wash Autoservice AG in 1974. The company is still majority-owned (95%) by the founding family, 5% are owned by free shareholders.
The company has a total of 30 locations nationwide. In every branch there is a textile washing line with up to 4 belts running in parallel. This means that several thousand washes can be carried out at one location on peak days. Interior cleaning on a conveyor belt is also offered in 14 branches. In addition, a "hand wax" service (waxing the car paint with a polishing machine) is offered at many locations.
The branch in Essen is the front runner among the Mr. Wash systems. More than 500,000 cars are washed, cleaned and waxed here every year. Up to 2013, 3200 cars were washed in one day, the system at one location is designed for 4000 vehicles per day. A petrol station is operated at 19 locations and oil changes are offered at 13 locations.
criticism
In a ZDF report by the television magazine Frontal21 on January 12, 2010, Mr. Wash was accused of wage dumping . It was alleged that employees are sometimes paid not according to working hours but according to the number of cars washed and that they also have to contribute financially to vehicle damage. The individual employee has no influence on the belt speed. The accusation of wage dumping was rejected as unfounded by the group management. According to Mr. Wash boss Richard Enning, the branch manager in Nuremberg responsible for the employees' financial loss was dismissed. In a further ZDF report by the television magazine Frontal21 on May 10, 2011, Mr. Wash was accused of using the opening of the German labor market for Eastern European companies in a targeted manner in order to employ large numbers of Eastern European workers at dumping wage conditions.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The largest car wash in the world - The look behind the scenes, Pro 7 Galileo episode 32 season 2013 from February 3, 2013 (YouTube)
- ↑ ZDF press release on the broadcast
- ↑ "Hamburger Morgenpost"