Raab Karcher
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| legal form | GmbH (parent company Stark Deutschland GmbH, formerly Saint-Gobain Building Distribution Germany ) |
| founding | 1848 |
| Seat | Offenbach am Main |
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| Number of employees | 5,500 (2012 // SGBDD) |
| sales | 2.0 billion euros (2015 // SGBDD) |
| Branch | Building materials trade |
| Website | www.raabkarcher.de |
Raab Karcher was a trading company for building materials based in Offenbach am Main . In July 2008 the company was integrated into the German branch of the Compagnie de Saint-Gobain group ( Saint-Gobain Building Distribution Germany ) and has continued to exist as a trademark ever since . On November 1, 2019, the company was renamed Stark Deutschland GmbH. The new parent company is the Stark Group.
history
The company's starting point was a joint venture between several coal traders based there, founded in Kaiserslautern in 1848 . In 1859 Carl Heinrich Karcher (1808–1875) became a partner in the company, which in 1881 was renamed Raab, Karcher & Cie . The (forwarding) business with coal was later expanded to include other products such as wood, building materials, heating oils, chemical and other products. The Raab Karcher shipping company in Duisburg-Ruhrort began building its own fleet in 1880. In 1901, Willi Huber , grandson of two co-founders, joined the company as an authorized signatory and in 1910 became the company's managing director. When Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG (GBAG) took over the majority of Raab Karcher AG in 1914 , Huber became a member of GBAG's supervisory board.
In 1964 Raab Karcher GmbH achieved sales of DM 1.078 billion.
In 1990 Raab Karcher took over the ista company . In 1996 Raab Karcher Kohlen GmbH was bought by Ruhrkohle Handel GmbH (a subsidiary of Ruhrkohle Beteiligungs-GmbH, which in turn is a subsidiary of RAG Aktiengesellschaft ). In 1993 and 1994 it achieved sales of DM 1.59 and 1.29 billion. Germany accounted for around 90% of this.
In July 1997, Raab Karcher AG acquired the US specialist distributor Wyle Electronics for US $ 630 million . As early as 1992, the company was part of the trading company Stinnes AG , which was part of the VEBA group . In 1998 Raab Karcher AG and VEBA Immobilien AG were merged to form Viterra AG .
Raab Karcher Sicherheit (RKS), with 10,500 employees (including 2,200 in Berlin) in the field of security, facility and real estate management (30 percent stake in Müller International), were merged to form Raab Karcher AG Veba Immobilien-Management . The newly founded subsidiary Raab Karcher Sicherheit Privat GmbH wanted to bind around 30,000 private customers to their alarm activation by 1999 .
In 2000 Stinnes sold the Raab Karcher building materials trade to the French Compagnie de Saint-Gobain . Today almost 3800 employees work in around 125 locations at Raab Karcher. In Holland, Hungary and the Czech Republic they are also represented under the name Raab Karcher, in Poland under the name Saint-Gobain Dystrybucja Budowlana and in Slovakia under a-Keramika .
Between July 2008 and September 2019, Raab Karcher GmbH will operate under the umbrella of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain as Saint-Gobain Building Distribution Deutschland GmbH . On October 9, 2019, Saint-Gobain Building Distribution Deutschland GmbH was taken over by the Stark Group and has been operating under the name Stark Deutschland ever since .
From 2010 to 2015 Raab Karcher expanded its Germany-wide network with six additional locations in Cologne, Berlin-Adlershof, Bonn, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Bühl and Heidelberg.
Raab Karcher is the largest and best-selling brand within the STARK Deutschland GmbH group of companies. Raab Karcher offers a wide range in the trades shell construction , extension, roof , wood , tiles , parquet & laminate , construction equipment & tools as well as civil engineering (supply, disposal, surface). The company is represented by more than 125 branches nationwide.
literature
- Rüdiger Ganslandt (author), Andreas Dahms (overall coordination), Raab Karcher AG (ed.): Raab Karcher - Growth and Change in 150 Years . Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1998.
- Fritz Pudor : Growth in 110 years. Raab Karcher 1848-1958 . West-Verlag, Essen 1958.
- August Heinrichsbauer, Hans Gattenhof: Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of Raab Karcher. A representation of the history of the company . West publishing house, Essen, Kettwig 1948.
- Front and home . Script of the Raab Karcher GmbH operating group. Düsseldorf (published 1941 to 1943).
- Raab Karcher in pictures and words, issue 1 . Carl Schünemann Publishing House, Bremen 1953.
- Raab Karcher in pictures and words, issue 2 . Printed by A. Bagel, Düsseldorf 1955.
- Raab Karcher in pictures and words, volume 3 . Published for the 120th anniversary, print: A. Sutter, Essen 1955.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Company - Organs ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2012 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. at raabkarcher.de, accessed on November 14, 2012.
- ↑ Georges E. Karcher and Fritz Kirchner: The Karcher family from Saarland , Saarbrücken 1979, ISBN 3-931519-19-8 , p. 14
- ^ Manfred Rasch , Gerald D. Feldman : August Thyssen and Hugo Stinnes. An exchange of letters 1898-1922 , CH Beck Verlag, 2002 ISBN 3-406-49637-7 (p. 635f).
- ↑ M. Kruk in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) of August 28, 1965
- ^ Company history of Wyle Electronics on fundinguniverse.com , accessed on April 6, 2007.
- ↑ ZEIT-online: 2 billion sales loss for Raab Karcher (accessed on October 18, 2012)
- ↑ From 2010 to 2015 Raab Karcher expanded its Germany-wide network with six additional locations. In Cologne, Berlin-Adlershof, Bonn, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Bühl and Heidelberg. Raab Karcher Baustoffe GmbH becomes Saint-Gobain Building Distribution Deutschland GmbH. ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2013 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. Press release from July 1, 2008 (accessed October 18, 2012)
- ↑ The SGBDD will become Stark Germany in the future . In: baustoffmarkt-online.de . ( baustoffmarkt-online.de [accessed on July 17, 2020]).
- ↑ THE IMPORTANCE OF TRADITION FOR BRAND COMMUNICATION ( Memento of October 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
