Pappas group

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Pappas
founding year 1952
Seat Salzburg, Austria
Employee 2328 (2015)
Branch Automobile trade
Markets Austria, Hungary, Germany
Website www.pappas.at

Pappas is an Austrian automotive trading company that operates in Austria, Hungary and Germany. The head office is in Salzburg.

overview

The car trading company Pappas Holding GmbH is one of the largest companies in the Austrian car industry with over 2,800 employees and over 400 apprentices. The group operates a network of 46 sales and service branches in Tyrol , Salzburg , Upper and Lower Austria , Vienna , Styria and in Upper Bavaria and Hungary . In addition, she holds various investments in other companies, such as AutoFrey, Autohaus Schneider and others. The Pappas Group sells and services a wide range of vehicles from small cars to trucks and also offers services such as vehicle tuning , classic car restoration and custom-made commercial vehicle bodies.

As a multi-brand automotive retailer, Pappas is an authorized sales and service partner for the brands Mercedes-Benz , AMG , Maserati , Smart , Jeep , Mitsubishi Fuso , Unimog , Multihog, McCormick and Bucher Municipal as well as a service partner for Lancia , Chrysler , Dodge and DAF . In Hungary, Pappas is also an authorized sales and service partner for the KIA and Fiat brands and a service partner for Iveco .

history

Georg Pappas, 20 years old at the time, began trading automobiles as early as 1948 . In 1951 the brothers Georg and Dimitri Pappas met the Mercedes-Benz general agent Günther Wiesenthal , with whom they subsequently played a key role in shaping the Austrian Mercedes-Benz organization.

In 1952 Georg Pappas Automobil AG was founded in Salzburg and in 1960 Georg Pappas took over the management of the Mercedes-Benz central office, today's Mercedes-Benz Österreich Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH, while Dimitri Pappas took care of important contacts. The company flourished and developed into one of the largest car dealerships in Central Europe. Georg Pappas built the automobile trading business with the establishment of branches in Salzburg (1957) and Vienna (1959) as well as the takeover of the Styrian company Konrad Wittwar (1964, now Pappas Steiermark), the Upper Austrian company F. Zelenka (1972, now Pappas Linz) and Tiroler Retterwerk AG (1986, now Pappas Tirol). These companies still form the basis for the automotive business in Austria today.

In 1990 Georg Pappas founded the Hungarian general agency Mercedes-Benz Magyarország Kft. And expanded abroad for the first time. In the meantime, a trading network with six locations has been set up in Hungary , Pappas Auto Hungary.

Pappas has also been active in Bavaria since 2005 and at practically the same time, other brands related to the core Mercedes-Benz brand were added to the portfolio, such as Chrysler , Jeep and Dodge . Dimitri Pappas died in 1999. Starting in 2005, Georg Pappas also gradually withdrew from active business life and died in February 2008. In 2005, the management of the company was handed over to the children of Georg Pappas, Alexander Pappas and Catharina Pappas. To this day, Pappas is 100% family owned.

In 2015, Catharina Pappas and her company CP Auto GmbH took over Frey Autohaus GmbH in Salzburg with 230 employees. This company was integrated into Pappas Holding GmbH in 2017.

distribution

Pappas currently operates 45 sales and service branches in Austria , Germany and Hungary :

  • Georg Pappas Automobil GmbH, Salzburg , with six locations
  • Pappas Auto GmbH, Vienna and Lower Austria , with six locations
  • Pappas Automobilvertriebs GmbH, Upper Austria , with five locations
  • Pappas Steiermark GmbH, Styria , formerly Konrad Wittwar GesmbH., With six locations
  • Pappas Tirol GmbH, Tyrol , formerly Retterwerk GmbH, with three locations
  • Pappas Auto Hungary, Budapest , with six locations
  • Pappas & Werlin, Traunstein , with two locations
  • AutoFrey Handelsgruppe, Salzburg, with four locations
  • DanubeDrive GmbH, Wiener Neudorf, with four locations

Brands

A wide range of brands is offered under the umbrella of Pappas:

Passenger vehicles:

  • Mercedes-Benz , e.g. B. C-Class, GLA, GLE Coupé,
  • AMG , e.g. B. A 45 AMG 4MATIC
  • Smart , e.g. B. fortwo coupé and cabrio, forfour
  • Jeep , e.g. B. Grand Cherokee, Wrangler, Renegade
  • Maserati , e.g. B. Ghibli, Quattroporte
  • Alfa Romeo e.g. B. Giulia, Stelvio

Commercial vehicles:

In addition, Pappas is an authorized service partner for the DAF , Fiat Professional and OMNIplus brands at selected locations .

Services

The Pappas service centers offer a variety of different services:

  • Sales advice for new and used cars
  • Repair and maintenance
  • Repair of bodywork and paint
  • Conversion and extension solutions
  • Parts and accessories program
  • Wheels and accessories configuration
  • Performance and tuning with the tuning partners AMG , Brabus and Carlsson
  • Guarantee services
  • 24-hour emergency assistance
  • Accessories
  • Classic oldtimer competence
  • Conversions for people with disabilities

Sponsorship

Sponsoring is an elementary part of Pappas' corporate philosophy, with a focus on social sponsoring. For many years the company has supported the partner dog association Austria and the children's aid organization Rainbows in Salzburg and Graz. There are also some smaller support projects.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.trendtop500.at/unternehmen/pappas/mitarbeiter/
  2. ↑ derStandard.at - Catharina Pappas takes over Autohaus Frey . Article dated November 3, 2015, accessed November 28, 2015.