RWA Raiffeisen Ware Austria
| RWA Raiffeisen Ware Austria Aktiengesellschaft | |
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1993 as a cooperative, 1997 conversion to AG |
| Seat |
Vienna , Austria
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| management |
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| Number of employees | 2.015 |
| sales | 2.39 billion euros (2017) |
| Branch | Trade, services |
| Website | www.rwa.at |
| As of December 31, 2017 | |
The RWA Raiffeisen Ware Austria AG is the retail and service companies in the warehouse - cooperatives in Austria . It was founded as a cooperative in 1993, converted into a stock corporation in 1997 and has been operational since 1998. The RWA Group offers warehouses services in the areas of agriculture, energy, technology, building materials, DIY and garden centers, and services and links them to a network on a voluntary basis.
The focus of RWA activities is on deliveries and services for the member cooperatives in Lower Austria , Upper Austria , Styria and Burgenland . Selected holdings in Austria as well as in Central and Eastern Europe complement and expand the business areas of RWA. It has formed a strategic alliance with the German BayWa since 1999 and is therefore part of an international trading and service group.
RWA is owned equally by RWA Raiffeisen Ware Austria Handels- & Vermögensverwaltungs eGen and BayWa .
Overview
Raiffeisen Ware Austria AG works in conjunction with the warehouses as an important local supplier, business partner and employer in rural areas. They are based on the cooperative principle according to Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen . In the 2015 financial year, the RWA Group (RWA and its subsidiaries and investments) generated sales of 2.4 billion euros with around 1,800 employees. The operating result rose by 13.5% to 23.5 million euros. The operating result before taxes amounted to approx. 22.7 million euros. The Lagerhaus Group posted sales of 4.2 billion euros across Austria and employed around 12,000 people at more than 1,000 locations.
history
The first warehouse cooperative based on the Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen system was founded in Pöchlarn / Lower Austria in 1898. The Association of Rural Cooperatives in Lower Austria was formed as early as 1899, followed by the Association of Agricultural Cooperatives in Styria at the turn of the century. The first association was established in Upper Austria in 1917 . In 1946, what would later become the Austrian Raiffeisen Warehouse Center (ÖRWZ) was founded as a federal headquarters.
In 1993 Raiffeisen Ware Austria reg.Gen.mb.H. from the merger of the cooperative owners of the goods associations in Lower Austria , Upper Austria and Styria and the ÖRWZ in Vienna. The Burgenland cooperatives joined in 2004.
In 1998 the RWA-Genossenschaft transferred its entire business activity to the newly founded RWA Raiffeisen Ware Austria AG, but remained its owner. In 1999 the EU gave the green light for a strategic alliance with BayWa in Munich, based on a share swap.
Holdings
To strengthen the Bezug- and sales business, the RWA holds investments at home and abroad. In 2015, the group had sales of 1.7 billion euros in Germany and around 680 million euros internationally. Major domestic holdings are Genol, Garant, AUSTRIA JUICE, AFS Franchise-Systems, Agro Innovation Lab, Frisch & Frost, Lamb Weston / Meijer Austria, Wärme Austria, URL AGRAR and RI-Solution.
Genol GmbH
Genol is active in the business areas of fuels, heating oils, lubricants, filling stations and solid fuels as well as pellets and sees itself as a partner of the warehouse cooperatives and their customers in all energy issues.
Garant GmbH
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Garant Tiernahrung produces food for farm animals, horses, game and fish at three locations in Austria - in Aschach, Pöchlarn and Graz. Together with the license partners in Carinthia, Salzburg and Tyrol, Garant supplies the farmers with compound feed from the cooperative sector and is the industry leader with combined annual sales of more than 500,000 tons. The subsidiary Agromed Austria successfully exports special feed all over the world.
AUSTRIA JUICE GmbH
The AUSTRIA JUICE Group - a joint venture between RWA and AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG - is one of the most important manufacturers of high-quality fruit juice concentrates, beverage ingredients, fruit wines, not-from-concentrate juices, flavors and fruit sweeteners for the beverage and food industry.
The company (formerly Ybbstaler Fruchtsaft ) has been rooted in Allhartsberg (Lower Austria) since 1936 and today has 14 production sites in Austria, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Ukraine and China.
AFS Franchise-Systems GmbH
AFS Franchise-Systeme supports the Austrian warehouses as franchisor in the building materials and building & garden center business areas at more than 500 locations.
Agro Innovation Lab GmbH
The Agro Innovation Lab, founded in 2016, works as an innovation platform of the RWA Group with creative start-ups, individuals, companies and research institutions, analyzes and promotes ideas and innovations in the agricultural sector - from pure advice to help with financing and marketing. It also offers innovative services itself, such as drone flights and GPS-supported soil samplers as preparation for fertilizer advice based on requirements.
Frisch & Frost GmbH
Frisch & Frost - a joint venture between RWA and Lamb Weston / Meijer - is Austria's leading frozen food producer of Austrian pastry and potato specialties. The products are sold under the brands Bauernland and Toni Kaiser as well as under various trade brands. Frisch & Frost supplies the catering and commercial kitchens via wholesalers, consumers via food retailers and large industrial customers directly.
Lamb Weston / Meijer Austria
The RWA joint venture with Lamb Weston / Meijer mainly produces frozen potato products at the Hollabrunn site.
WAV Wärme Austria VertriebsgmbH
Warmth Austria - a joint venture of RWA with "Unser Lagerhaus" Warenhandelsgesellschaft mbH, BayWa Vorarlberg HandelsGmbH and OMV Refining & Marketing GmbH - sells heating oils, fuels, wood pellets, coal and lubricants throughout Austria.
URL AGRAR GmbH
URL AGRAR operates a wholesale business with agricultural products in Central Europe. The focus is on grain, maize, oilseeds, animal feed and seeds.
RI-Solution GmbH
RI-Solution is the joint IT company of RWA (20%) and BayWa (80%).
Holdings
The subsidiaries and holdings abroad can be found in
- Slovakia (RWA Slovakia spol. S ro and Sempol spol. S ro)
- Hungary (Raiffeisen-Agro Magyarország Kft.)
- Serbia (Raiffeisen Agro doo Beograd)
- Croatia (RWA Raiffeisen Agro doo)
- Slovenia (Agrosaat proizvodnja, zastopanje in trgovanje, doo)
- Romania (RWA Raiffeisen Agro Romania srl)
- Czech Republic (BOR sro and Lesia AG)
- Italy (IFS Srl)
Business activities in Central and Eastern Europe are mainly focused on the core business area of agriculture, namely trading in agricultural products and operating resources. IFS Srl looks after more than 300 locations from South Tyrol to Rome as a franchisor in the house and garden center business.
Own brands
The warehouse stocks own brands in a wide variety of categories:
- Alpha pet food , food for dogs, cats, rodents, birds and fish
- Avania , colors
- Casafino , building materials for garden design
- Clever house , prefabricated houses
- Dämm [it] , thermal insulation composite system
- The seeds , seeds of all agricultural crops
- Garant , Austria's leading manufacturer of pet food
- Genol , heating oil, pellets, fuels, energy requirements
- Hevi , agricultural and forestry technology
- Evergreen , plant care
- impos , products for home and garden owners, do-it-yourselfers and house builders, farmers and winegrowers in the entry-level segment
- Masters , glue, grout, filler and leveling compounds
- Okay, garden tools
- Preziso , technology and solutions for viticulture and fruit growing
- Tekit , professional tools
- Material , work and protective clothing
- Wild & forest , classic costume fashion as well as hunting and leisure clothing
Business development
The RWA Group's consolidated total sales in 2015 were EUR 2.4 billion (−2.1%). Lower prices in the agricultural and energy business were primarily responsible for the decline. The earnings development was positive in almost all group companies. The EGT in the RWA group fell to approx. EUR 22.7 million (2014: EUR 29.5 million). The Group's strong equity ratio continues to give it stability. This increased from 51 to 51.8% in 2015. Equity increased from 384.1 to 395.1 million.
Mission statement
In 2015, a new mission statement was drawn up for the group.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Annual Report 2017 , accessed on May 12, 2019
- ↑ a b c Annual Report 2015 of RWA. In: www.rwa.at. Retrieved June 30, 2016 .
- ↑ Quantities up, sales only slightly down - RWA holds its own in a difficult economic environment | BauernZeitung / Economy. In: www.bauernzeitung.at. Retrieved June 30, 2016 .
- ^ History of the Raiffeisen Goods Organization. In: www.rwa.at. Retrieved June 30, 2016 .
- ↑ RWA Annual Report 2015. In: www.rwa.at. Retrieved June 30, 2016 .
- ↑ This funding program focuses on start-ups in agriculture | trend.at. May 19, 2016, accessed June 30, 2016 .
- ↑ F. Url sells the food sector Bauern-Zeitung
- ↑ RWA Annual Report 2015. In: www.rwa.at. Retrieved June 30, 2016 .
- ↑ Overview of Lagerhaus own brands | Warehouse. In: www.lagerhaus.at. Retrieved June 30, 2016 .
- ↑ RWA Annual Report 2015. In: www.rwa.at. Retrieved June 30, 2016 .
- ^ Mission statement of the RWA Group. In: www.rwa.at. Retrieved June 30, 2016 .