Pon Holdings
| Pon Holdings BV | |
|---|---|
| legal form | BV |
| founding | 1980 |
| Seat |
Almere , Netherlands
|
| management | Janus Smalbraak ( CEO ) |
| Number of employees | over 12,000 (2014) |
| sales | around 6 billion euros (2014) |
| Branch | Trade , services , industry |
| Website | www.pon.com |
Pon Holdings BV ( Pon for short ) is a Dutch family company that operates internationally as a trading and service company with a wide range of activities . It is one of the largest family businesses in the Netherlands and is the parent company of a group of companies whose business a. Import, logistics, marketing, sales, service and maintenance of passenger cars as well as commercial vehicles such as construction machinery , trucks and buses from manufacturers such as Volkswagen , MAN and Caterpillar , as well as products for road construction and shipping . Since the beginning of the 2010s, Pon has been expanding strongly in the bicycle market. a. major bicycle manufacturers such as Derby Cycle and Gazelle, making it the largest European bicycle manufacturer .
In 2014, Pon employed over 12,000 people at over 250 locations in 21 countries.
history
Pon Holdings BV was founded in 1980 by Ben Pon junior . The origins of the company go back to the founding of Pon Handelsonderneming ('Pon Handelsunternehmen') in 1895 by his grandfather Mijndert Pon in Amersfoort , who originally traded in soap, tobacco and sewing machines there, but also imported and sold Opel bicycles from 1900 onwards . before 1920 u. a. Automobiles were added. In 1931 Mijndert Pon's sons, Ben Pon senior and Wijnand Pon, turned the original company into Pon's Automobielhandel , which in 1947 became the first Volkswagen dealer and general importer outside Germany under the management of Ben Pon senior, Ben Pon junior's father has been.
In April 2017 it became known that the two large Dutch bicycle manufacturers Pon (Gazelle, Cervelo, Union) and Accell Group (Batavus, Sparta, etc.) were planning a merger. This would have created the largest wheel manufacturer in the world. The companies could not come to an agreement, however, and Accell turned down Pon's bid of 845 million euros to acquire.
Web links
- Pon Holdings BV website (Dutch and English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Company history on pon-cat.com, accessed on February 12, 2016.
- ↑ a b c Tjabel Daling: Pon Holdings ziet winst in 2014 bijna halveren . In: Het Financieele Dagblad , April 24, 2015, accessed on February 12, 2016.
- ↑ die tageszeitung, Wirtschaft + Umwelt, 3 May 2017 p. 09