Recaro Automotive Seating
| RECARO Automotive Seating GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| Seat | Kirchheim unter Teck |
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| Number of employees | ≈1000 |
| Branch | Automotive supplier |
| Website | www.recaro-automotive.com |
The RECARO Automotive Seating GmbH is a German company based in Kirchheim unter Teck in Stuttgart , which the world's leading manufacturers of car seats belongs. The company is primarily known for its ergonomic and sporty seats, which are installed in small series in cars from well-known manufacturers or are offered for retrofitting. The company has been part of the Irish automotive supplier Adient since 2016 , after it split off from Johnson Controls , which Recaro Automotive Seating had owned since 2011. In 2020, Adient sold the company to Raven Acquisition LLC, a US investment company. The Recaro Holding remained owner of the brand Recaro and occurs after to remain as a licensee.
history
Wilhelm Reutter founded a saddlery in Stuttgart on October 1st, 1906 at the age of 32 , from which the Stuttgarter Karosseriewerk Reutter & Co. GmbH and finally Recaro emerged . The founding of the company by Wilhelm Reutter joins the up-and-coming Stuttgart automotive industry, along with names such as Bosch , Daimler and Maybach .
In 1909 his brother Albert Reutter joined the company as a partner and commercial director. Albert Reutter subsequently became the real engine of the company. The company name was changed in 1910 to "Stuttgarter Karosseriewerk Reutter & Co". The young company produced car bodies for (almost) all well-known manufacturers of the time. It was best known for the patented “Reutter's Reform body”, which was a predecessor of the convertible . Ferdinand Porsche had Reutter build a prototype of the VW Beetle in 1935 . Both companies worked closely together later on. The Porsche 356 can be traced back to this cooperation, in which Reutter's company was responsible for the body. With the model change from the Porsche 356 to the 911 (originally 901 ), Reutter sold the bodywork to Porsche KG at the end of 1963. The legal successor of the Reutter bodywork was thus the Zuffenhausen neighbor Porsche.
On September 9, 1957, Recaro AG ( RE utter CARO s series ) was founded in Switzerland . After the body shop was sold to Porsche, seat production was continued under the company name Recaro in the original Reutter Plant I in Stuttgart's Augustenstrasse. The Reutter family sold the company to competitors Keiper , Huber & Wagner and Metzeler in 1969 after economic problems . Keiper took over all shares in Recaro in 1983, but Recaro remained an independent company until the Keiper-Recaro group of companies was taken over by Johnson Controls in 2011.
Business areas
Recaro Car Seating
As an original equipment manufacturer (OEM), the Car Seating division supplies automobile manufacturers such as Aston Martin , BMW , Ford , Lamborghini , Mercedes-AMG , Opel- OPC and VW with high-quality car seats. Recaro is also active in the after-market for retrofitting series vehicles and in the motorsport sector. Development and production take place at the headquarters in Kircheim / Teck, in the USA in Auburn Hills (Michigan) , in Lerma (Mexico) and in Higashiōmi (Japan).
Recaro Commercial Vehicle Seating
With this division, newly founded in 2008, Recaro serves the commercial vehicle sector including the aftermarket. The head office with development is in Kaiserslautern , series production started in 2012 in Skarbimierz (Poland).
Recaro engineering
The Tech Center Kaiserslautern takes over u. a. Development projects for the other business areas, the parent company Adient and external customers.
Others
Recaro seats also have a media presence in football : many first and second division teams in the German Bundesliga have coach and substitute players, but also some spectators in the VIP area, on Recaro seats.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ RECARO imprint. In: recaro-automotive.com. RECARO Automotive Seating, accessed on February 1, 2020 .
- ↑ RECARO Automotive Seating. In: recaro-automotive.com. RECARO Automotive Seating, accessed on January 29, 2018 (self-reported).
- ↑ Ulrike Bauer, Cora Finner, Roland Grosse Holtforth and others: Lexicon of German world market leaders. The premier class of German companies in words and pictures . Ed .: Florian Langenscheidt , Bernd Venohr . GABAL / Dt. Standards-Ed., Offenbach / Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-86936-221-2 .
- ↑ Inge Nowak: Recaro is sold. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung. January 31, 2020, accessed February 1, 2020 .
- ^ HB Kaiserslautern: Auto supplier Keiper goes to Johnson Controls. In: handelsblatt.com. Handelsblatt , December 31, 2010, accessed on December 31, 2010 .
- ↑ Divisions . In: recaro-automotive.com. RECARO Automotive Seating, accessed on July 24, 2013 .